Sentence examples for excessive deficit from inspiring English sources

"It cannot be ensured that the excessive deficit will be corrected by 2013".

Nor were threats to extend the EU's excessive deficit procedure against Hungary justified.

"Finance ministers are, and remain, the masters of the excessive deficit procedure," he told Deutsche Presse Agentur, a news agency.

Britain is in the so-called excessive deficit procedure but cannot be sanctioned as it is outside the eurozone.

Even before Eurocrats can say "excessive deficit", any laxness by France would be punished by higher borrowing costs.

THE European Union's "excessive deficit procedure" hangs like a sword of Damocles over the finance ministries of the euro-zone.

Blanchard said growth had been "hobbled" by excessive deficit-reduction action and described across-the-board spending cuts as a "bad way" to improve the US public finances.

Obviously, the ceiling itself does not fundamentally restrain public debt, nor the excessive deficit-spending which causes debt to build.

Excessive deficit-building, higher taxes, a weakening dollar, trade wars and favoring our enemies over our friends does not instill comfort.

The European Commission holds veto power, as Croatia is under its excessive-deficit procedure.

The commission intends to open an "excessive-deficit procedure" against the Italian (and Portuguese) authorities, for repeatedly breaching the 3% limit on government deficits set for EU countries.