This would entail strict rules imposing budgetary discipline and potentially the harmonisation of social policies, including common retirement ages, across the euro area.

Donations should be made conditional on clearly specified achievements in judicial reform and budgetary discipline.

Most of us learnt budgetary discipline slowly, in my case in the move from student life to a monthly wage.

Budgetary discipline would, supposedly, be maintained by stipulating limits for national debt and budget deficits, which financial markets would informally police.

My budgetary disciplines and production schedules were rearing their ugly heads.