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The European nations at the center of the crisis have gone on the offensive, setting austerity measures to cut back bloated public sectors.

Mr. Orban has already ruffled feathers at the International Monetary Fund, which last year set tough austerity conditions for Hungary in return for financial assistance.

A pernicious circle of weak growth, bigger deficits and more austerity is setting in.

"Jeremy has been going around the country saying he wants to end austerity without setting out at all how he wants to do it," he said.

The trade union movement is close to setting up an anti-austerity alliance, with one aim being to help protect Jeremy Corbyn's grip on the Labour Party.

Tsipras' radical-left Syriza party swept to power in January on an aggressive anti-austerity platform, setting up the current standoff with Greece's creditors.

A swift series of announcements signaled the newly installed government would not back down from its anti-austerity pledges, setting it on course for a clash with European partners, led by Germany, which has said it will not renegotiate the aid package needed to help Greece pay its debts.

Spain's prime minister set out more austerity measures designed to save €65 billion by 2015.

The chancellor has already signalled that he will ease the pace of austerity set in motion by his predecessor, George Osborne.

Austerity set in stone a divided United Kingdom in which Conservative or Conservative-led governments prospered because there were more "winners" than "losers".

Our recent report with the New Local Government Network, Funding arts and culture in the age of austerity, sets out the scale of this funding decline.