This meeting was an opportunity for exchanging views on the present world economic and financial situation.
But Mr Praet also agrees that reforms are difficult and when the economic and financial situation improves there is a temptation for governments to delay.
The budget was delivered "against the context of the most challenging economic and financial situation that we have found ourselves in since devolution", Ms Hutt said.
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The amended amendment from the Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, which said that poor people and sick people should not be made to pay the cost of the economic and financial situation that Scotland faces, was also passed.
Other European investors snapped up German government short-term debt offered on Monday at a negative return, another sign of the bad economic and financial situation still overhanging the EU. The ugly financial situation in the European Union remains a major bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
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Other European investors snapped up German government short-term debt offered on Monday at a negative return, another sign of the bad economic and financial situation still overhanging the EU. The dour financial situation in the European Union remains a major bullish underlying factor for the safe-haven gold market.
We have no financial, economic or political situation similar to that of any other nation that has gone bankrupt or failed in history.
This much is indisputable: The administration's economic plan is so sweeping, and our financial situation so precarious, that the administration needs nothing less than a master salesman for its economic agenda.
The steadily eroding situation in Japan has some economic experts warning of a financial crisis that would dwarf 1997's problems in Thailand and drag the world's economies into depression.
To do that he has to confront the challenges that Detroit continues to face including a massive financial crisis that could lead to a state takeover if the economic situation in the Motor City does not stabilize soon.
To make a legal case against Winnick, prosecutors will have to show that he knew that the swap transactions lacked an economic basis and were used to paint a false picture of the company's financial situation.
But this one-size-fits-all portfolio does not agree with financial theory, which holds that each investor should take into account his or her individual economic situation.
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