EU Affirms Debt-Cut Strategy in Face of ‘Fragile’ Outlook

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The European Union will tell its counterparts in the Group of 20 nations that a shaky economic recovery requires renewed commitment to budget cuts and other structural reforms.

“The situation remains fragile” in the euro area, the EU said in a planning document prepared for next week’s G-20 meeting in Washington and obtained by Bloomberg News. The document affirms the EU’s “fiscal consolidation strategy” and calls on other countries to speed up similar efforts.