Stability and Growth Pact
European trade unions march in Brussels to protest the EU-imposed austerity
The protests took place in the context of the likely enforcement of the European Union’s (EU) Stability and Growth Pact which will lead to combined cuts worth EUR 45 billion from the budgets of 14 member states
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