Sentence examples for fiscal relaxation from inspiring English sources

At the time, German officials urged the group not to push for fiscal relaxation of EU rules.

Governments may then feel obliged either to challenge that stance, or to offset it with fiscal relaxation.

"The economic message is fiscal relaxation," Yaroslav D. Lissovolik, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank in Moscow, said in a telephone interview.

Monday's budget delivered the biggest fiscal relaxation in eight years as the chancellor found money to pay for the NHS giveaway.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] You include me among those said to defend some form of "fiscal relaxation" in Brazil ("Progress and pitfalls in Brazil's public finances", May 6th), as I had criticised IMF criteria on borrowing by state firms.

Well, here we are, with deflation threatening the continuation of such recovery as the eurozone has seen and, although the present European Central Bank president, Mario Draghi, has called for fiscal relaxation, he is powerless to initiate this, while the Germans continue to behave as though Weimar inflation were round the corner.

Critics argue that, given Bolivia's record of reform, it could have persuaded donors to agree to a temporary relaxation of fiscal policy.

Coming on top of the forty billion dollars in extra spending already authorized, and the sizable income-tax cuts that the Bush Administration enacted earlier this year, it would amount to the biggest relaxation in fiscal policy since the Reagan era.

Because delay would be likely to lead to a relaxation of fiscal austerity, the criteria may not in fact turn out to be easier to meet in a couple of years' time.

The gravity of the situation was best demonstrated by Dominique Stheuss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who called for cuts in interest rates to be supported by a relaxation in fiscal policy by those countries with strong enough public finances to allow cuts in taxes or increases in spending.

But history's charge against him will be that after all these years of planning the politics of coalition, he failed to secure any of his party's key demands: no relaxation of fiscal austerity, no rescue of the NHS, more tuition fees but no electoral reform, no Lords reform, not even reform of party funding.