The Greek debt – a European story …
By Catherine Mathieu and Henri Sterdyniak At end 2014, Greece’s debt was 317 billion euros, or 176% of its GDP, up from 103% in 2007, despite […]
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Flexibility versus the new fiscal effort – the last word has not been spoken
By Raul Sampognaro On 13 January, the Juncker Commission clarified its position on the flexibility that the Member States have in implementing the Stability and […]
The Greek Sisyphus and its public debt: towards an end to the ordeal?
By Céline Antonin After its failure to elect a new President by a qualified majority vote, the Greek Parliament was dissolved, with early elections to […]
France – the sick man of Europe?
by Mathieu Plane – Economist at OFCE (French Economic Observatory – Sciences Po) The year 2014 was marked for France by the risk of European […]
An unprecedented retreat by the euro zone’s banks
By Anne-Laure Delatte, CNRS, OFCE, CEPR, Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University Another small step was taken last month towards a euro zone banking union when […]
Does growth in the euro zone really depend on a hypothetical German fiscal stimulus?
By Christophe Blot and Jérôme Creel The debate on economic policy in Europe was re-ignited this summer by Mario Draghi during the now traditional symposium […]
iAGS, independent Annual Growth Survey 2013
by OFCE (Paris), ECLM (Copenhagen) and IMK (Düsseldorf) The independent Annual Growth Survey (iAGS) brings together a group of internationally competitive economists from three European […]