Belgian cuts
The Belgian government yesterday rescued the country from political crisis by agreeing a social pact designed to curb public spending, Sarah Lambert writes from Brussels.
The political compromise that managed to prevent a split in the ruling Christian Democrat-Socialist coalition relies on cuts in health and family allowances, a wages freeze and extra taxes on capital and property.
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