EU ready to order Ireland to alter budget

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Series Details 12.2.01, p7
Publication Date 12/02/2001
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On 12.2.01, at the 'Ecofin' meeting of EU finance ministers, Charlie McCreevy, Ireland's finance minister, became the first European Union minister to be publicly reprimanded by his peers and told to change his budget to bring it into line with the EU's broad economic policy guidelines.

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