The fact that the ECB, through its programmes of the type of quantum easing (QE) and Pandemic Emergency Purchases Program (PEPP) respectively, provides the market with money, making it the main buyer of European government bonds, forces investors to create an informal queue to buy the remaining and smaller volume of European bonds offerings left …
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Eurozone Economy Returns to Strong Growth Trajectory but Still Has Obstacles to Overcome
The increased spending of European consumers by the increased liquidity that had accumulated due to the continuous economic shutdowns and lockdowns, gave a dynamic impetus to the field of retail, catering, and steadily increased factory production which has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels. As a result of these factors, Eurostat released data on Eurozone GDP, …
The Prospects for the Recovery of the Eurozone / EU Economy are Difficult
Based on expectations in various key sectors of the EU economy, inflation is expected to increase across the Eurozone as a whole. This is due: 1) At the expected higher energy prices. 2) In the wider increase of all prices of commodities and food, respectively. 3) The rise in prices due to increased levels of …
Debt ‘Chokes’ Eurozone/EU
After the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, both the Commission and the governments of the euro area member countries will face thorny problems in their management such as dealing with the growing debt, public and private respectively, which is currently accumulating with the help of the ECB and the member countries that “absorb” it to …
Magic Picture the Drastic Reduction in the Percentage of Bankrupt Businesses in the EU
The repeated economic shutdowns and social dimensions imposed on EU member countries during 2020, which will continue into the second half of 2021 and until 70% of their populations are vaccinated, have caused untold damage to millions of businesses (family, small and medium-sized and large) in the catering-hotel sectors, tourism, air transport, retail trade, etc. …
Is it Time for the Eurozone/EU to Issue A Perpetual Bond?
Global debt has reached 365% of world annual GDP, an amount close to $280trillion and surely no one should expect this amount to be repaid within the space of a century. The only solution that seems feasible now is its unstoppable per-financing, although in the long term this solution is not sustainable, since it has …
The Eurozone/EU Economy for the forthcoming Decade (2021-2030)
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed …
The Eurozone/EU Economy for the Next Decade (2021-2030)
The Eurozone & EU economy equally is expected to start recovering by the end of Q3 2021. But until then the economies of the euro area member countries will be characterized by high budget deficits in their annual government budgets, by high public debts (in some euro area member countries general government debt will exceed …
The Problematic Course of the Eurozone (EU) Economy and the Proposed Corrective Policies
The indications to date for the euro area economy raise reasonable concerns, increasingly removing the scenario for a recovery of its V-shaped economy and increasingly approaching the scenario of slow and uneven K-shaped growth. At the same time, the governments of the euro area member countries are particularly concerned about the further recession that the …
The Inequality of Borrowing Cost Rates in the Eurozone
The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published data on the borrowing rates of households, businesses and the overall long-term borrowing costs respectively for both the Euro area and each of its member countries (Source: ECB, https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data/publisher/ecb). What continues to trouble us from the graphs below is the fact that a Eurozone of different speeds appears …