Section
Money
Public spending, contracts, budgets and who ends up paying.
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Where did the €300 million go?
The money did not disappear. But somewhere between the fiscal picture painted before the election and the one we are being shown now, something changed. Publish the arithmetic.
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The cheque came before the vote. The bill comes after.
86% of a year’s planned spending growth went in the three months before a snap election called in the name of prudence. Now comes the freeze — and it lands on everything that doesn’t vote.