German finance minister Peer Steinbrueck said on Friday that fiscal irresponsibility could hurt the euro.

Yet the fiscal irresponsibility of the Tory right isn't the saddest part of this sorry tale.

Don't rush to blame this on fiscal irresponsibility.

With the exception of the Greek case, " fiscal irresponsibility" cannot be blamed for the EA debt crisis.

That blunder, compounded by several other acts of fiscal irresponsibility, had a pernicious effect on the nation's savings-investment dynamic.

A New Direction for America rightly denounces the staggering fiscal irresponsibility of Republican leaders and duly promises "pay-as-you-go" spending.

The 85-year-old leader is determined to avoid periods of fiscal irresponsibility that have marred the rule of previous Saudi monarchs, analysts say.

These measures stem from an arrogant assumption that the government must find a way to tax because of overspending legislators' own fiscal irresponsibility.

Mr Cowen said that one stark lesson from recent history was that a rapid and heavy price had to be paid for fiscal irresponsibility.

Grange accused the PNP of "careless" adventures in the 1990s, and fiscal irresponsibility which took the country to the brink of economic disaster.

During those years, the conservative Liberal-Nationals' coalition government accused Labor of fiscal irresponsibility, citing a supposed budget "black hole" when it was last in office.