Greece is suffering under a harsh government austerity program and businesses are being crippled by a lack of competitiveness.
As Greek politicians set a new election date Wednesday, Merkel said she regretted the suffering of the Greek people in the face of harsh government budget cuts.
Merkel, a champion of forcing governments to balance their budgets in order to promote stable economic growth in Europe, said she regrets the suffering of the Greek people in the face of harsh government budget cuts.
Even Polish business, usually a harsh critic of the government's statist economic policies, is pleased.
Yet, the terms of the euro group are so harsh, that the government of Cyprus could not raise the money without some haircut on the insured deposits.
When the case came before an appeals court in February, the judges' harsh questioning of the government's lawyers appeared to support the view that the entire case might even be dropped and Microsoft acquitted of any wrongdoing.
The Moderate Party had an unprecedented lead in the opinion polls last summer partly because Swedes were angry about high unemployment and the government's harsh budgets.
She added that many Greeks at home are pinning their hopes on Samaras retracting some of the government's harsh austerity measures while reducing domestic bureaucracy to encourage foreign investment.
To stave off a bailout, Rajoy's administration has been forced to implement harsh austerity measures to keep government borrowing costs sustainable while ensuring larger eurozone partners, such as Germany, remain onside.
In Japan, the government has come under harsh criticism for its clumsy handling of the episode.
It begins in the Gilded Age, when the Supreme Court barred most attempts by the government to ameliorate the harsh effects of market forces.
Since I arrived in Old Blighty with my English wife last week, I've heard how the pound is struggling, real-estate values are plunging, austerity measures are widely disliked, the government is seen as harsh and ineffective, and unemployment is on the rise.
Carl Levin, D-Michigan, recently returned from a visit to Baghdad with harsh words for the al-Maliki government.
He's responding to harsh criticism as well over the federal government's initial response.
To prevent that, the government will have to be harsh with public-sector unions and in its annual adjustment of the minimum wage on May 1st.
But certainly the fact that the U.S. had spoken out so strongly against this and that the Iraq government had taken a very harsh position must have affected Turkey because they are sensitive to these things.
The French government is trying to pass a harsh new law that would cut off internet access for people who download pirated music and films.
But there can be no devaluation to make Greece a newly cheap destination, and harsh new taxes on business included in the government's austerity plan may kill the entrepreneurial spirit of those bold enough to try new things.
"The government wants to see these companies subjected to harsh market scrutiny, " says Lin Shoukang, head of capital markets for China International Capital Corp.
Many protesters were angry over what they described as harsh austerity measures being implemented by the current centre-right government.
The report, released Tuesday, acknowledges that Ireland's government sent thousands of women and girls to "harsh and physically demanding" workhouses known as Magdalen Laundries, where they worked and lived without pay, sometimes for years.
The government auctioned contracts to upgrade four airports, but on terms so harsh that improvements may be slow.
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That may sound harsh and uncaring, and libertarians will rightly cringe at the idea that the government should decide how hard people be working.
For months, government officials have warned investors that the economy is headed for a harsh first half of 2008 as the Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates to encourage economic growth.
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In the very short run it might even sell government securities, but open market sales and money shrinkage would be too harsh a medicine to go on for very long.
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Greece's future in the euro has been in doubt after the country failed to form a coalition government because of opposition to the terms of its bailout and the imposition of harsh austerity measures.
Italy has had a caretaker government for months, led by economist Mario Monti, a Napolitano appointee whose harsh austerity measures of higher taxes, pension reform and slashed spending helped keep Italy from succumbing to the debt crisis.
Our government will continue to support faith-based and community groups that bring hope to harsh places.
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