Namely, a plan to cope with private debt repayment and strengthen the country's fragile banking system.

CNN: Now The Hard Part

The bailout fund is set to provide financial help to European countries struggling to cope with their debt burdens.

CNN: German Constitutional Court backs European rescue fund

It isn't the first time that a eurozone nation has raised taxes to cope with mounting debt and to prop up struggling banks.

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As prime minister he will have to cope with more austere times and deal with a debt hangover that threatens to devalue his political stock.

ECONOMIST: Economic prospects

The new debt deal made it much easier for Galgardi to cope with the lockout that cost the league almost half this season.

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Further ahead, Germany has to cope with a shrinking and ageing population, a fast-growing public debt and the need to switch from dependence on exports towards more consumption.

ECONOMIST: Germany's election

Failure to cope with this problem now could mean as much as a trillion dollars more in national debt in the next four years alone.

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