Sentences with phrase «eurozone government debt»
It also appears that the ECB will concentrate on reducing its purchases of government (rather than corporate) bonds, but here issuance is increasing, with the net amount of eurozone government debt set to expand in 2018, in contrast to the contraction seen over the previous 18 months.
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The eurozone then struggled with a crisis over excessive government and bank debt that threatened to break up the currency union.
In reaction to the polls, the spread on French five - year government bonds rose to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis.
Its official debt is unpayable, and never should have been forced upon it in the first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).
-LRB-...) The strength of demand for eurozone «periphery» debt reflected increased investor appetite for higher - yielding government bonds as well as rising confidence in the creditworthiness of eurozone economies.
Staff economists blamed pressure from eurozone countries protecting their own «banks [that] held too much Greek government debt.
The bond purchases were started March 2015 to help the eurozone bounce back from troubles over government and bank debt in several member countries including Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus, Spain and Italy.
In light of the considerable uncertainty around the economic and fiscal outlook, including the risks posed to economic recovery by ongoing financial tensions in the eurozone and against the backdrop of a still large structural budget deficit and high and rising government debt, the Negative Outlook indicates a slightly greater than 50 % chance of a downgrade over a two - year horizon.»
Certainly the attitude of the UK government has not helped; on one hand urging the eurozone to accept the «remorseless logic» of greater economic and fiscal integration, including Germany taking on liabilities for weaker eurozone states via debt pooling, while on the other refusing to take part in such measures itself and zealously looking after its own self interest.
This Coalition Government was formed in the midst of a debt crisis in the Eurozone.
Every eurozone government has debt problems and is cutting its spending, Richard Douthwaite says.