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“Berlin plans to cut the national budget deficit by a record 80bn euros ($96bn; £66bn) by 2014.”
“DP World, the developer of the £1.5bn London Gateway port”
“The company is spending £50m on measures such as turning farmland into new tidal habitat to attract wading and migrating birds by breaching a 975ft (300m) sea wall later this year”
“Nicole Dryburgh, 21, from Whitstable, raised £43,000 towards the unit at King's College Hospital.”
“If we fail to provide an adequate supply of homes, one of the consequences is that the housing stock will continue to become more expensive and will continue to become less affordable from the point of view of people who live within the co…”
“Ms Hutt said Danny Alexander agreed to reverse a cut in Wales' budget - worth £1.4m - which related to savings in the 2012 Olympics budget.”
“But Wales still faces an overall reduction to its budget of £187m following the meeting.”
“This will amount to a net £162.5m cut due to savings elsewhere.”
“Ms Hutt said the assembly government had already made savings in most of the areas highlighted by the UK Government in its announcement on 24 May.”
“Ms Hutt is now hoping to get more clarification on finances in the new chancellor's Budget in two weeks.”
“The economy was at the heart of the talks.”
“A spokesman for the EU's agriculture commissioner has said it is unlikely a £60m fine imposed on the Department of Agriculture will be reduced.”
“It was imposed due to farm subsidy payments made in error to farmers in Northern Ireland.”
“This may have major consequences for the rest of the Northern Ireland budget at a time of major financial pressure coming from the UK treasury.”
“The Dutch economy was contracting for a year before the country emerged from recession in the third quarter of 2009.”
“Immigration minister Damian Green said smugglers undercut honest businesses by an estimated £11bn a year.”
“The UK government recently announced plans to cut £6.2bn from spending this financial year as part of deficit reduction proposals.”
“The Scottish government will be expected to make savings of £332m as part of the wider UK cuts.”
“"You have to be comatose not to figure out how to get a dollar out of $52 billion (£36 bn)," said his lawyer, Sam Adam Jr, referring to the state budget.”
“It's part of the 15bn euro (£12bn; $18bn) austerity package introduced by the government late last month in an attempt to cut a budget deficit swollen by almost two years of recession.”
“It is 300 years old”
“He thanked Sir Alan Budd for agreeing to chair the OBR in its first year.”
“Shares in BP fell a further 5% on Tuesday after US President Barack Obama launched his most strident attack yet on the oil giant.”
“has seen its shares tumble almost 40% since April's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“The oil giant has said the cost of the clean-up operation so far is about $1.25bn.”
“A fund-raising campaign, which had been set up to try to raise the £50,000 needed to send her for treatment at a specialist clinic in the USA, was put on hold last September.”
“In the first five days we've had £10,000 given or promised in cash, 30 [fundraising] events lined up, and had heard someone had telephoned anonymously and offered all £50,000 [required for Bethany's treatment].”
“This disease has cost the taxpayer £100m over the last 10 years in compensation payments alone.”
“It is still not clear where First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness will swing the axe, to cope with the planned £128m cut from the Northern Ireland budget this year.”
“The main message is calmness - less a slash and burn, more a managerial and partnership approach.”
“Money will now be spent according to very clearly defined priorities - schools, skills and health.”
“four senior management posts with salaries of £125,000 each”
“£15m in savings”
“limiting banks' boards to three directors who meet minimum levels of expertise”
“The corporate governance 'green paper' is only intended to stimulate discussion, and the commission does not expect to propose any specific new legislation until 2011.”
“It is estimated something like £550m a year nationally is lost to the Exchequer and those are taxes which have to be made up by the rest of us.”
“More than 550 public sector employees in Jersey earned more than £70,000 in 2009, according to new figures.”
“The 556 States employees were less than 8% of the total public sector workforce.”
“The figures also revealed that - including pensions and other allowances - the Bailiff, Michael Birt, and island Chief Executive Bill Ogley earned more than £250,000 each.”
“They also include an employer's pension contribution of 15.6% which was also applied to basic salaries.”
“But I just remind them of a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General that said in 2008 that whilst staff at lower levels were well paid, staff at higher grades were relatively underpaid.”
“The Dutch deficit is expected to reach 6.3% this year”
“Mr Rutte has proposed budget cuts of at least 20bn euros (£17bn, $24bn) over four years”
“Under the previous agreement, the private firm was paid £13.4m for operations in its first year”
“but only carried out work worth £10.1m”
“Some of the money intended for the IFNC pilots would be used to fund superfast broadband, said Mr Hunt.”
“It also announced that the new government said that it may use some of the BBC license fee to part-fund the roll-out of superfast broadband.”
“Its gross domestic product (GDP) surged by 9% compared with the same period a year earlier.”
“Brazil's economy grew by 2.7% on the previous three months - again beating analysts' expectations.”
“The government said the annual growth was the swiftest pace seen since at least 1996.”
“Brazil's economy is the largest in Latin America and the eighth-biggest in the world.”
“These figures are confirmation of what the market was talking about, a strong first quarter with very strong domestic demand despite the weak external sector”
“Evis had lost £127,000 in total on her gambling addiction, Mr Phillips added.”
“she had a massive internet gambling problem - she wagered over £2m on one site.”
“Eileen Evis, 61, from Colaton Raleigh, Devon, was jailed in March last year for stealing £140,000 from building firm TAG in Sidmouth.”
“The prosecution has claimed between £20,000 and £30,000 of the money remains unaccounted for.”
“Evis worked as a £50-a-week bookkeeper at the family-run building company in Sidmouth, Devon.”
“Evis had transferred about £18,000 to her daughter who lives in Australia and £2,000 to her son, which she claimed was the repayment of a debt.”
“She had also received £35,000 in a divorce settlement from her husband since the case.”
“The couple say the ordeal has left them feeling suicidal and has cost them a total of £400,000.”
“Like Greece, Bulgaria had to significantly revise its budget deficit calculation for 2009, from 1.9% of GDP to 3.7%.”
“Brussels previously cut aid to Bulgaria by 220m euros in 2008 because of concerns over corruption.”
“Bulgaria has fixed its exchange rate to the euro since the euro's inception in 1999.”
“It makes sense that ... all the member states will start fiscal consolidation at the latest next year, 2011.”
“Germany announced on Monday that it intended to carry out a record 80bn euro austerity package.”
“Mr Rehn defended Berlin, saying the measures are needed to bring Germany's deficit back down to a common EU target of 3% of GDP by 2013.”
“Late on Monday, finance ministers also gave the official go-ahead to a 440bn-euro ($536bn; £363bn) fund - officially called the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) - that will be in place by the end of the month.”
“In addition to the SPV, the European Commission is making 60bn euros available 'to cover urgent financial needs, were it to arise'.”
“while the International Monetary Fund will provide another 250bn euros.”
“Havelock announced a pre-tax loss for 2009 of £5.9m - compared with a profit of £7.7m in the previous year.”
“The £50m scheme at Cwrt-y-Gollen, near Crickhowell, Powys, had been recommended for approval.”
“My salary will be cut by 5% - about 100 euros a month.”
“And so will my husband's - he is also a public sector worker.”
“I have been suffering from the economic downturn now for over 12 months or more, by not receiving pay increases.”
“are only being asked to reduce their salaries from between 5 and 15%”
“The scheme, which has 850 members, was closed to new entrants in 1999.”
“Northern Rock also announced plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new contributions.”
“£30m”
“£265m”
“8%”
“18%”
“The £30m deal is a shared contract with Shanduka, a joint venture partner in South Africa”
“Investment in new equipment is to be £265m this year, £45m up on previous plans.”
“The Church has been forced to ask its congregation to help finance its £7m share of the costs of the visit which, even without extra policing and security, will amount to £15m.”
“profits after tax reached £2.2m in the latest financial year”
“Turnover ... 18% to £26m thanks to increased sales to export markets, especially in the Middle and Far East.”
“Lancashire County Council said closing the centres in Langho, Padiham, Rufford and at Everest Road in St Annes will save £1m every year.”
“It is estimated that alcohol-related problems cost the Scottish economy £3.6bn every year.”
“EU finance ministers have backed Estonia's bid to become the eurozone's 17th member on 1 January 2011.”
“The tiny Baltic state has fixed its currency - the kroon - to the euro ever since the single currency's inception in 1999.”
“Unlike many existing eurozone members, Estonia has stayed within the euro's criteria on budget deficits and total government debt for several years.”
“Dundee City Council said an extra £500,000 had been set aside for child protection since 23-year-old Robert Cunningham was jailed for Brandon's death.”
“According to the Pew Research Center, the income gap between those with a college degree and those without has steadily increased since the 1970s”
“It fell 1% against the dollar to $1.437 after Fitch published its report, but later pared losses.”
“Fitch noted that the new coalition government had acted "very quickly", making deficit reduction a top priority and identifying £6bn of savings.”
“With other European sovereigns strengthening their fiscal consolidation plans and market concerns about sovereign risk in advanced countries increasing, both the size of the UK deficit currently projected for 2011 and the failure to reduce…”
“Berne had promised Washington that account details would be made available by the end of August”
“The Swiss government feared this could mean the end for UBS, which was already struggling with huge sub-prime losses”
“will be returned at a cost of $500,000 (£345,000).”
“This 440bn-euro ($536bn; £363bn) fund - officially called the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) - will enable the 16 nations that use the single currency to access cheap emergency loans and loan guarantees, should they find themselves unable t…”
