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Scotland (Kyodo) Japan told a meeting of the Group of 20 major countries about its plan to set up at an early date a target to rebuild its finances, Senior Vice Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Saturday. During a press conference at the end of the...
Tags: finances ministers, Scotland
That appeared to be the question facing Gordon Brown on Saturday when he gate-crashed the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors...Attempt the most daunting spin operation, simultaneously giving different messages to many...
Tags: Treasurer Wayne Swan, Gordon Brown, finances ministers, climate change, Scotland, Indian, St Andrews, Mr Brown, Australia
Senior EU financial personalities expressed deep concern, bordering on amazement, on Monday night (19 October) over recently revised Greek deficit forecasts. At a Luxembourg meeting of the euro area's 16 finance ministers, Greek minister George Papaconstantinou...
Tags: EU Finance Ministers Fail, European Union, finances ministers, ministers failed, billion euro, Copenhagen
P utting the best possible pre-election gloss on forecasts of deeper red ink for Ottawa, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is assuring Canadians the light at the end of the deficit tunnel should be visible by 2015...The Conservative Finance Minister used...
Tags: finances ministers, Canadaâ, Jim Flaherty, ministers jim, budget shortfall, federal government, Ottawa
France tonight upped the pressure on Britain to agree sweeping curbs on bankers' bonuses as it warned the government not to kow-tow to the interests of the City. France's finance minister, Christine Lagarde, in London for tomorrow's meeting of top finance...
Tags: finances ministers, Exchequer Alistair Darling, London, France, Britain, g20 finances, American, Obama
Dampening hopes for an early exit from the recession still gripping the global economy, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, warned yesterday that "the large part of the worst is not yet behind us". Mr Strauss-Kahn...
Tags: IMF, green shoots, finances ministers, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director, International Monetary Fund, global economies
Yesterday's (9 June) Ecofin Council failed to reach a political agreement over a number of key issues included in the review of rules and bodies dealing with financial oversight in the EU. One of the sticking points remained the proposals on micro-supervision...
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The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) decision to triple its capital base may lead to a corresponding increase in social and environmental harm across the region, a group which monitors the lender's activities said. The ADB's capital hike could easily translate...
Tags: Asian Development Bank, Southeast Asia, Japan, ADB, finances ministers, Indonesian, asian countries, trillion yen, Bali Sun, asian nations
If the Liberal party is to be actively involved in the budget process, the first thing the Liberal caucus and all Canadians need to know is the true state of the government's books. Meaningful discussion and input requires honest budgetary numbers. The...
Tags: Liberal Party, finances ministers, Canada, Jim Flaherty, John McCallum, ministers jim, Scott Brison, budget meeting
Eurozone finance ministers launched an attack on Tuesday against excessive golden handshakes, threatening to tax the large payments to senior executives when they leave a company. "We believe that the excesses of captains of industries' (pay packages)...
Tags: finances ministers, eurozone finances, golden handshakes, Jean-Claude Juncker, euro zone, wage increases, European Union, nation euro, ministers jean