
Spain is under intense pressure from the European Union and financial markets to slash a budget deficit that breached 11% of gross domestic product in 2009. It has pledged to reduce it to 9.3% of GDP in 2010. The 2011 budget the government sent to parliament last week calls for a 7.9% cut in spending, to cut the deficit next year to the target of 6% of GDP.
However, the cost in unemployment has been high. The number of unemployed people in Spain reached over four million in September. There were 48,102 more 'newly unemployed' compared to August, out of a total of 4.17 million.
The plan may be working, but, to coin a phrase, the Labour isn’t.
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