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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11169

4 October 2014
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
(AE) ECONOMY: Katainen - fiscal hawk or fiscal dove?

Brussels, 03/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - When the president-elect of the next European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, chose Finnish prime minister Jyrki Katainen to head his mammoth €300 billion investment plan, there were raised eyebrows among reporters attending the press conference where the announcement was made. Katainen's reputation preceded him to Brussels. The Financial Times calls him a fiscal hawk and he was harshly grilled by a number of highly critical MEPs at his hearing in...

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