Brussels, 22/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - The priority should be growth first, then budget consolidation, explained the G20 finance summit last weekend in Moscow (see EUROPE 10892). The world's leading economies plan to adopt an action plan on budget and economic policies, including structural reforms, at the G20 summit in Saint Petersburg on 5 and 6 September.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said after the G20 that work was needed right now to restore growth and, when the economy...