reforms

They want to see reforms actually put in place to ensure the money is going to where it is needed.

They also had 6 months to start reforms to reduce bloated government spending and invest to reduce food imports.

In theory it's great to force a country to make productive reforms that politicians would otherwise refuse.

And India's economic reforms have been half-hearted, and results have been in between China and Russia.

You won't have the situation you have in Illinois where the courts are telling the electorate they can't make certain reforms.

Everywhere it seems to be a common understanding that reforms are only going to be implemented in return for more money.

Did you see the timetable on the massive reforms Greece is supposed to implement?

In return, the Greeks were supposed to implement structural reforms and privatization.

Until Islam reforms in Europe - it will only become worse.

They need a market friendly government who can indeed do reforms.

Then they can go on running Greece independently without any reforms and they won't need to beg the Germans and Bulgarians to send them money.

In practice, the reforms demanded here are largely punitive and pointless.

"raise so much in taxes, implement these social reforms".

> "As the President said in announcing recent intelligence reforms, "We have to make some important decisions about how to protect ourselves" > "Mr.

Not only that, but even after reforms, large numbers of people were grandfathered in to a previous scheme that allowed people working in "arduous" careers --- a list that included such dangerous careers as hairdressing --- to draw a generous (relative to the EU) minimum pension after just 10 years of experience.