Instead - just like the international agencies - they focused on fiscal and financial measures.

The loose monetary policy will only have an effect if proper fiscal measures are implemented.

Both fiscal measures and regulation can have significant distributional impacts.

In addition to fiscal measures, price controls have sometimes been used as a weapon.

In principle, fiscal measures are a matter governed by national sovereignty.

We must devote attention to structural reforms, however these are impossible without fiscal measures.

I agree that fiscal measures can be a very effective instrument to further energy efficiency.

Best practice needs to be disseminated, and fiscal measures put in place against polluters.

We seem to do quite a lot of wringing our hands about the Council's reluctance to agree an energy tax and other fiscal measures.

If we opt for fiscal measures, what form should the tax take?