However, in her speech, Mrs Merkel said economic growth and structural reforms had to go hand-in-hand.
In power, Mr Monti made some progress early on, including raising the retirement age and structural reforms.
But delivering the jobs and wage rises that ordinary Peruvians clamour for requires both faster growth and structural reforms.
In other words, the beneficiary government would need to have made appropriate promises on fiscal policy and structural reforms.
In several countries, fiscal and structural reforms are still at a fragile stage.
Is the German medicine of austerity and structural reforms working, or is it locking countries into a spiral of decline?
All Member States of the euro area are fully determined to continue their policy of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms.
No fewer than five euro-zone governments have been toppled but their successors are committed to sounder budgeting and structural reforms.
Even these will come on condition that the Turks pass quarterly exams on tricky subjects like public spending and structural reforms.
It touches on the most fundamental question facing the eurozone: is its policy of reducing deficits and structural reforms saving or killing the patient?
It is also being asked to put in place economic and structural reforms, including changes to the labour market and a renewed privatisation drive.
Gianfranco Fini -- a former party ally -- lashed out, accusing him of a lack of attention to the economy and structural reforms that Italy needs.
But he said the governments of eurozone members states deserved credit for the "extraordinary progress" they had made in terms of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms.
In order to keep the eurozone together Berlin has prescribed its medicine - cuts to the deficit and structural reforms that are intended to usher in growth later.
It is true that Greece can survive within the euro only with a gruelling downward adjustment of wages and prices, which demands painful budget cuts and structural reforms.
Not to take anything away from Takenaka, who continues, correctly and importantly, to advocate deregulation, lower corporate taxes, and structural reforms as the key to reviving Japanese growth and competitiveness.
It also meant the government would get through the rest of the measures in its Local Government Bill, which includes plans for more directly-elected mayors and structural reforms to councils.
This means that Argentina's path to restoring market confidence and improving competitiveness lies in a tough slog of tight fiscal policy and structural reforms to make the economy more flexible.
For the moment, he has strong support both from Italian voters and from the main political parties (which naturally prefer to see him taking the blame for imposing austerity and structural reforms).
"In our electronics division, with strength in audiovideo products, a recovery in semiconductors and components, and structural reforms, we are making steady progress in improving profitability, " Sony chief executive officer Nobuyuki Idei said in a statement.
Dropping his language that loose monetary policy was part of a "currency war" against emerging economies, Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, described Tokyo's revitalised policy as "a new and bold program of economic growth, based on fiscal and monetary stimulus and structural reforms".
Although by committing to buy an unlimited amount of bonds from beleaguered members last summer, the ECB sharply mitigated the risk of a meltdown, Europe still has a long road ahead of it, with many questions over fiscal, political and structural reforms far from being resolved.
It would need a disciplined monetary policy and bold structural reforms to retain the gains from its cheaper currency and avoid hyperinflation.
Aided by fiscal discipline, privatisation and other structural reforms, the economy is back to solid growth.
The Germans still maintain that cutting deficits and implementing structural reforms opens the road to growth later.
Italians voted for change, an alternative to the budget austerity and "structural reforms" backed by the euro-zone authorities.
Say cutting deficits and embracing structural reforms does not revive the European economies.
Many countries in Europe, especially in the south, need deep and prolonged structural reforms to enhance their growth potential.
The government has stabilised public finances and continues structural reforms, including privatisation, to improve the environment in which Polish firms operate.
As part of the program, Cyprus will also have to raise taxes on capital gains and companies, introduce structural reforms and privatize some state assets.
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