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Greek MPs backed spending plans for 2015 on Sunday. (Photo: 2dubstEEr)

Eurozone ministers face new Greek budget battle

Eurozone finance ministers will face a race against time to resolve the latest disagreement over Greece's spending plans and agree a short-term extension to its bailout program as they gather in Brussels on Monday (8 December).

On Sunday, the Greek parliament backed a budget plan for 2015 which the government hopes will be the start of a gradual move away from austerity, including tax cuts, for the first time since the countrynfaced economic ruin in 2009.

The Greek economy has ret...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Greek MPs backed spending plans for 2015 on Sunday. (Photo: 2dubstEEr)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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