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The government's main austerity bill was finally passed by Congress today, a move to allay fears of a debt default and to help the sickly economy regain its health.

In turn, the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, forced through the last of the main austerity measures demanded by creditors: reforms to the pension system that will leave worse off everyone who is receiving more than €1,000£80000) a month, and demand much higher contributions from workers in future.

McDonnell insisted at a Guardian fringe meeting on Tuesday that he had succeeded where Ed Balls failed in showing that Labour was serious about clearing the deficit and becoming Britain's main anti-austerity party.

Sinn Féin has positioned itself as the main anti-austerity voice in the Republic of Ireland.

"We should keep the fiscal consolidation," said Mr. Barroso, referring to the budget cuts and tax increases that are the main pillars of austerity.

The Jagonari centre already runs two social enterprises doing similar work.The main worry, in austerity Britain, is the paucity of cash.

Professor Geoffrey Lipman runs the SUN Program, based in Brussels, which works towards sustainable tourism, and he fears the pressure is too often on politicians to end up throwing such a tax into their main budgets when austerity bites.

Greece has also completed the economic adjustment that its creditors have put forth as a main objective of austerity.

The party, which has close ties to Syriza, Greece's radical left, anti-austerity main opposition, claimed the rescue programme would amount to "another gift of billions of euro for the oligarchs and creditors of Greece".

Like many on the left, including the virulently anti-austerity main opposition Syriza party, now leading in the polls, Hadzisokratis also opposes the idea, signalled by Germany earlier this week, of Greece being given a third bailout package of around €20bn later this year.

When they hammered out a joint programme for government, the main theme other than austerity was decentralisation.