Produced by the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), these monthly notes look at the volumes of debt issued, the maturity structures and the conditions in the market.Quarterly notes look in greater detail at the market and at the factors behind the more substantial...

With very low unemployment, a large and stable current account surplus, low government debt and a budget in surplus, the Dutch economy was assessed initially to be relatively well prepared to weather the financial and economic crisis. In 2008, however, the negative effects of the financial...

This Country Focus shows that some simple reserve adequacy measures (particularly based on external debt indices) – although suffering from a number of drawbacks – seem to be sound indicators of the largest vulnerabilities within the CEE8 region. Nevertheless, the analysis of...