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The austerity debate: what Europe got right and wrong

Publishing date
01 March 2013

The renewed signs of Europe's economic weakness raised by the Commission's economic forecasts for 2013, the stark contract within the euro area between a prosperous North and a struggling South, and growing social and political resentment in the countries most affected are triggering a new policy debate. Is austerity working?

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