PM links austerity package success to government confidence vote

Meanwhile, Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer has linked his government’s future to the success of the deficit-cutting package. Speaking in the lower house on Thursday morning, the prime minister said that if politicians do not accept his cabinet’s set of proposed austerity measures, he will take it as a sign that MPs do not have confidence in his government. In his address to the lower house on Thursday morning, Mr Fischer said that the only changes he would be prepared to make to the austerity package would be those which enjoyed support from right across the political spectrum.

Author: Rosie Johnston