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Published on 26 April 2012 at 09:55

While François Hollande’s proposal for a growth policy has found support in the countries worst affected by the crisis, the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, is advocating a pact for growth and at the same time warning against public spending.

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Rebellion against Merkel’s fiscal austerity grows in Europe – El País

With even the President of the ECB calling for a growth pact, “Chancellor Merkel is increasingly isolated”.

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Major offensive against austerity Taliban – Financial Times Deutschland

Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager is meeting with all of the parliamentary political parties in a bid to find support for the austerity package that the Dutch government has to present to the European Commission on Monday, 30 April. On the morning of 26 April, no agreement had yet been reached with the opposition parties whose support is critical if the package is to be approved.

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Eagerly looking for an agreement – Trouw

"You had to go back to the year 1975, when Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts, to find the last time Britain was in a double-dip recession," writes the London daily. The question now is does David Cameron’s government have an alternative to its austerity policy.

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Just like 1975: UK back into recession – The Guardian

In the wake of the agreement between Budapest and Brussels on the statutes of the country’s central bank, the European Commission is ready to resume negotiations on financial aid for Hungary. But the question of the “unorthodox nature” of the economic policies pursued by Viktor Orbán’s government will remain a contentious issue, and one that will have to be managed by the International Monetary Fund, which suspended the talks last winter.

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The other problem with the IMF – Népszabadság

Ukraine commemorates the 26th anniversary of the nuclear power station explosion, which took place on 26 april, 1986. Today President Viktor Yanukovych will launch the construction of a new shell to seal the site. Yesterday his government announced plans to modernise hospital facilities for radiation victims.

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Chernobyl in the aftermath of Fukushima – Golos Ukrainy

The former Soviet state of Lithuania, which supplied many of the liquidators who took part in the clean-up following the Chernobyl disaster, continues to be marked by the tragedy which occurred on 26 April 1986. The daily interviews a resident of Samogitia, in the northwest of the country, who, as a worker at the plant, was the sole Lithuanian to have witnessed the explosion.

Spectre of Chernobyl still haunts Samogitian – Lietuvos Rytas

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