The United Kingdom has implemented austerity measures, and we have seen that their last GDP report showed contraction, not growth.
CiU has implemented austerity measures, including controversial cuts to the public sector.
Monti implemented tough austerity measures and said his actions had pulled the country through the crisis, although more needed to be done.
By contrast Mr Fabius, who as prime minister implemented many austerity measures at the time, now advocates a shift back to the left.
The two could clash over unpopular austerity measures implemented by Monti as part of a European agreement.
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In Spain, the Royal House said its 2011 budget, the first it disclosed publicly, was 5.2% lower than the budget for 2010, a reflection of austerity policies implemented amid Spain's deepest recession in decades.
Greece is close to that tipping point where almost whatever new austerity measure is implemented will fail.
Many protesters were angry over what they described as harsh austerity measures being implemented by the current centre-right government.
The austerity measures being implemented by eurozone governments are widely blamed by economists as a major contributor towards the Continent's economic woes, although there is disagreement among economists as to whether governments should therefore go easy on the spending cuts.
Stuck in recession, Greece is heavily in debt and has implemented more than 43bn euros worth of austerity measures since 2010 in order to try to bring down its budget deficit.
The worries follow concerns that the agreed-upon austerity measures that are to be implemented in order to receive the payment could be reversed to some degree after elections are held in Greece.
As Greek society experiences unparalleled social, political and economic crises, it is still uncertain what peoples' tolerance levels will be once further austerity measures -- and their consequences -- are implemented.
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