Northern Ireland misses a deadline to fix its budget crisis
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HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland’s budgetary crisis reached an embarrassing milestone Friday with no agreement on future spending — and increasingly bitter arguments over who’s to blame.
The U.K. region’s cross-community government of British unionists and Irish nationalists was supposed to have agreed a multi-year budget by January. But after months of bickering, a legal deadline passed Friday that triggers an automatic cap restricting Stormont’s 2026-27 spending to 5 percen
The U.K. region’s cross-community government of British unionists and Irish nationalists was supposed to have agreed a multi-year budget by January. But after months of bickering, a legal deadline passed Friday that triggers an automatic cap restricting Stormont’s 2026-27 spending to 5 percen
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