51.   Job losses have continued despite the end of the recession because firms have been re-structuring and making efficiency savings, the group said.

52.   Local authorities had also to make savings and the state would reduce its investment programme, Juppe said.

53.   Public transport is also identified as an area where considerable savings could be made.

54.   Savings will be made primarily by reducing government subsidies and grants, notably to students, and cutbacks in social security and health payments.

55.   Swedish finance Minister Goeran Persson said on Monday that the government does not plan any measures for making further savings in the national budget.

56.   The Christian Union and Free Democrat parties last Thursday began a detailed review of public spending to see where savings can be made.

57.   The Kohl government is determined to make savings, and says there must be a halt to rises in tax and social welfare contributions.

58.   The minister did not say where any future savings might be made.