“The approved budget makes 5.7 billion euros ($6.2 billion) in spending cuts and gathers 2 billion euros in higher taxes. The cuts include 1.8 billion euros from pensions and 500 million from defense. There have been strikes by public and private workers over the austerity and restructuring reforms sought by the EU as part of the financial bailout aimed at keeping Greece in the eurozone. Greece’s debt is forecast to grow to 327.6 billion euros or 188 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) from 180% in 2015. Tsipras, who came to power in January promising to defend Greeks from EU-imposed cuts and was then re-elected in September, described the budget’s passage as a ‘difficult exercise.'”
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