And she applauded the UK government's austerity programme, saying "no country can live beyond its means".
There is strikingly little doubt about the government's austerity programme among Lib Dems, even in private.
She backs its austerity programme, which includes a 15% pay cut for all state employees including her.
After some perilous wobbles last year, the government's austerity programme has won plaudits from bankers.
But the message is clear - the austerity programme with its budget and spending cuts will stay.
Mr Venizelos was being punished for his party's record and his own association with Greece's austerity programme.
True, their fearsome austerity programme justifies Labour's suspicion that all this is fluffy cover for spending cuts.
With the country's credibility shot, even the tough austerity programme announced earlier this month could not rally confidence.
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The initial premise of George Osborne's austerity programme turned out to be wrong.
Mr Samaras' expected plan to request a two-year extension on its austerity programme has provoked frustration among other European politicians.
For nothing will make or break the next leader of the opposition like his response to the government's austerity programme.
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Policies were better in most of Latin America, but far from all right, as Brazil's new austerity programme tacitly admits.
In the aftermath, the real, Brazil's currency, fell once again, as investors worried about the damage to the government's austerity programme.
Mr Bouterse's election campaign concentrated on winning over poorer voters who felt let down by the previous government's economic austerity programme.
Mr Papaconstantinou, who introduced Greece's first austerity programme as the country tried to rein back its escalating debt, denies any wrongdoing.
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Since the ECB started buying Italian debt, Berlusconi has played fast and loose with the austerity programme he seeks parliament to approve.
In a fifth year of recession, the election amounts to a rejection of the EU-IMF austerity programme that the two parties had accepted.
If you want fresh funds both the government, the opposition and the Greek public must sign up to the austerity programme by 3 July.
And while defending his government's austerity programme he, too, is talking about growth, more "collective support and collective responsibility" and a new eurozone monetary policy.
Yet though most of the Philippines' problems stem from its feeble tax-collection system, Mrs Arroyo has tried to tame the deficit by launching an austerity programme.
His comments come as a rebuff to the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, who has called for the UK to slow down its austerity programme.
Michael Fuchs, deputy chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU parliamentary group, said his faction would not give Greece the two-year extension it wants on its austerity programme.
German fingerprints are seen as being on their austerity programme.
Last month senior figures in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on the Chancellor George Osborne to reconsider the pace of the government's austerity programme in the face of slower-than-expected growth.
But the fear of some is that each round of cuts and savings becomes harder and that as long as the austerity programme continues, unpalatable options could soon become more widespread.
They believe northern English cities have been hit harder by the coalition government's austerity programme, partly because of the withdrawal of support to deprived areas in place under the previous government.
It seems that 2011 has become the year of living dangerously (for the government) and discontentedly (for the public), as rising inflation adds to the pain of Mr Osborne's austerity programme.
No sooner had the European Central Bank intervened this summer to stabilise its bond market than the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, retreated from his austerity programme, under pressure from within his coalition.
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President Carlos Andres Perez launched an austerity programme within days of taking office in 1989, without fully explaining why, and amid widespread suspicion that austerity was not meant for rich people like himself.
Another IFS observation that some ministers may be surprised by: the social security budget is rising, not falling over the course of the government's austerity programme, both in real terms and as a share of government spending.
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