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 …
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The “Red Dragon” (China) Grows Worldwide
While the Covid-19 pandemic was initiated by China (Wuhan Province) and it appeared that the Chinese government was taken by surprise, the subsequent successful management of the response to the pandemic strengthened Chinese citizens’ confidence in the communist regime of China, increased the national confidence and pride of the Chinese (always comparing it to the …
The Criteria for Whether a Fiscal Adjustment Is Successful or Not
The term fiscal adjustment refers to all those policies implemented by a government to achieve a future stable economic orthodoxy, i.e. to improve the fiscal balance by drastically reducing the annual state budget deficits. The reduction of the state budget deficit must reach the level of 1.5% of GDP or 1.5% of GDP as a …
The Microeconomic Changes Due to The Pandemic And the Adaptation of the Macroeconomic Environment to them
The spread of the Coronavirus pandemic and the ways to deal with it (lockdown, social exclusion & isolation) are causing tectonic changes in the size of GDP shrinkage and in total economic activity. In recent years, the exogenous factors that determine the levels of demand for services and products in many sectors of the economy …
The Individual and Governmental Responsibility and the Ways to improve the Healthcare Systems to efficiently respond in Pandemics
Since the eruption of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak in the countries of the West (EU, UK, USA, etc.) which are severely affected and the adoption of restrictive measures on the movement of citizens and a general lockdown on their economies, the governments of all these countries that are taking these measures constantly say that in …
The “Therapeutic” Policies for the Economies of the Planet affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic
The global economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is not simple to deal with, nor is it easy, because for the first time in peacetime both demand and supply are being affected at the same time in the affected economies». All economists worldwide are revising their estimates of the magnitude of the economic downturn …
How the US and the World’s Countries will avoid the Economic Armageddon caused by the Lockdown of Coronavirus Pandemic
The terrifying economic downturn that the developed economies of the world are gradually facing, especially that of the US, due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is much worse than the global financial crisis of 2008 caused by the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. This is because the current crisis is …
The Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone Economy – Part IV
As regards the public sector expenditures on unemployment benefits and given that there will be a joint operational and centrally designed budget for the central government of the Eurozone, these costs will must be made with a combination of expenditures both from the budget of the central’s government member state and the common Eurozone budget. …
The Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone Economy-Part III
The downsizing of public sector expenditures in central government budgets will must be done by a specific methodology and depending on the range-size of the public sector of the Eurozone (EU) member country. The budgetary curtailment of the public sector expenditures of a Eurozone member country will must be done with specific policies which, depending …
The Sustainable Solution for the Eurozone (EU) Economy – Part II
The European Commission and in general the EU rightly has set specific fiscal limits on the budgets of the member states of the Eurozone through the: Treaty of the European Union, Feb. 1992, widely known as the Maastricht Treaty-December, 1991 (Source׃ EU https://europa.eu/eu-law/decision-making/treaties/pdf/treaty_on_european_union/treaty_on_european_union_el.pdf, 29/7/2015, Brussels_Luxemburg 1992), and the Stability and Growth Pact (November, 2011) (Source׃ …