01.08.2012                      13.Aw. 5772

Wirtschaftspolitik:

Barak: Netanyahu, Steinitz's economic ideas are bankrupt

Barak said he asked to increase the budget deficit target a year and a half ago by 0.9% of GDP, but his view was not accepted.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke out harshly on Tuesday in closed meetings against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's economic policies – and the recent cabinet decisions on tax hikes and spending cuts….