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This paper discusses issues with using a DSA framework as a fiscal rule anchor. It introduces key concepts to guide the reader's understanding and highlights concerns about numerous assumptions that are inevitable in DSA calculation. The paper highlights structural issues, including asymmetry in how megatrends of aging, environmental change and a changing security and defence needs are incorporated into the framework.

Bringing all European financial markets under one roof, the Capital Markets Union (CMU), stands to provide European savers and borrowers with better opportunities. This, in turn, is expected to boost long-term growth and to improve the functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Yet, powerful private and public interest groups have been able so far to stand in the way of this transformation. Most governments are torn between the benefits from CMU and the pressure of these interest groups ...

Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni are invited to the 16th Recovery and Resilience Dialogue (RRD) under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) Regulation, scheduled for 16 September 2024. The previous RRD took place on 22 April 2024.

In most countries in the European Union (EU) and in the rest of the world, debt is treated more favourably from a tax perspective than equity, with interest payments on loans generally being tax deductible. In contrast, costs relating to equity financing, such as dividends, are mostly non-tax deductible. This unequal treatment of debt and equity leads to a bias towards debt in businesses' investment decisions and can lead to high levels of indebtedness in the EU corporate sector. On 11 May 2022, ...

This briefing presents selected indicators on public finance in the euro area Member States and the euro area as a whole.

New economic governance framework

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On 10 February 2024, the Council and Ϸվ reached a provisional agreement on a new economic governance framework for the EU, seeking to balance national debt sustainability with sustainable and inclusive growth in all Member States. Ϸվ is due to vote on the final texts during the April II 2024 session.

Like most advanced economies, the euro area emerges from a series of historical shocks with larger public debts, a sizeable increase in the already large balance sheets of the Eurosystem central banks, and intensified links between fiscal and monetary policies. The governments and the ECB must now undo what they did. Corrective action must not wait, if only because other shocks may again unexpectedly occur. The paper also presents a procedure to cut public debts. This document was provided by the ...

That the EU imports almost 60 % of its energy shows that real EU strategic autonomy in energy is far from achieved. The current energy crisis poses a risk to all four EU energy policy objectives. Crisis in the energy market is causing public and private debt and inflation, which risks destabilizing the European energy market. While diversifying gas imports away from Russia reduces dependency on one big supplier, reliance on several other third countries implies new supply risks. Although high fossil ...

This document presents selected indicators on public finance for the Euro Area Member States and the Euro Area as a whole. For each indicator, it provides a short explanation and the data sources. The final section presents a short overview of the main indicators used by the European and other international institutions to assess debt sustainability.

In October 2021, the European Commission relaunched, following a pause in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the review of the EU's economic governance framework. In the context of heightened economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the review has put the spotlight back on the fiscal rules, its relevance and effectiveness. On 9 November 2022, the Commission published a communication on orientations for a reform of the EU economic governance framework, which outlines how key economic and policy ...