Translation of "Sparauflagen" in English

This decision came after Athens had accepted almost all the austerity demands in a letter to the creditors.

The present measures of austerity are devastating for millions of citizens.

The Greeks are to vote on the austerity demands in a referendum.

The left-wing alliance Syriza, which rejects the troika's austerity dictates, is ahead in the polls.

The Greek voters gave a clear no to the creditors' austerity demands in the referendum on Sunday.

Nevertheless, the negotiations promise to be difficult, since the Commission's guiding principle is to satisfy, by presenting a squeezed budget, the austerity requirements imposed by the Member States, while ignoring citizens' needs.

Instead of restructuring the manifestly unsustainable debt burdens of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece (the PIGs), politicians and policymakers are pushing for ever-larger bailout packages with ever-less realistic austerity conditions.

The austerity measures for Greece are like an endless nightmare from which the country won't awaken for a long time to come, the daily Dimokratia comments:

The severe austerity measures made countries, which are monitored by the Troika made up of European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), also slide into a serious social crisis.

In the mid 90s the field of mechanical engineering increasingly felt the saving measures of the Ministry of Science and Culture and therefore had to make harsh cuttings in the staff positions.

The credits it awards are attached to strict austerity conditions, such as those currently dictated to Greece, Portugal and Ireland.

Since the start of the austerity impositions the impression is growing in DIE LINKE that a left vision of the European Union might only be a dream which the party must wake up from.

Greece's opposition leader and former prime minister Antonis Samaras has described Sunday's referendum as a vote on whether or not to remain in the EU - and not on the creditors' austerity demands.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has hinted that he will resign if the Greeks vote in favour of the creditors' austerity demands.

A crisis of this type can't be solved with more and more cutbacks, but only with a serious investment strategy accompanied by real and not pro forma reforms to boost competitiveness.

Having failed to take proper action in advance, many European nations have sought to cope with their debt-driven crises through harsh and painful measures, including drastic cuts in benefits to the retired, the sick, the poor, and millions of public employees.”

Creditors denied Athens’ requests for further debt relief after numerous austerity measures were actively ignored or simply “overlooked” by the Syriza government.

If, following the elections on 17 June, the new government reneges on the reform and austerity measures agreed with the EU, the ECB and the IMF, a Greek exit from the eurozone is practically inevitable.

In May 2010, the Greek Loan Facility was established, essentially a bail-out agreement, conditional on far-reaching austerity terms.

In the cutbacks that are being demanded of Greece and public budgets in general, we must have the courage, on the one hand, to legitimise the increases that we do need in order to do our work responsibly and yet, at the same time, to find a limit where we say: under present conditions, we also require a certain delimitation, as that is simply a part of the political landscape.

But if this is true – and many seem to believe it is – the current strategy is bound to fail for two reasons. First, any comprehensive package of structural reforms can be implemented only if austerity is relaxed.

Agro-environmental measures in Germany are co-financed by the EU, federal government and region-state governments. Hence it is likely that, due to economic austerity measures, many member states (particularly those in southern and eastern Europe) will have little or no funds available for agro-environmental measures.

In particular think about Europe – why would we not expect a huge monetary policy easing by the ECB, together with less fiscal austerity going forward, not to have a positive impact on Eurozone growth?