Fiscal rules are instrumental for restraining deficit and spending biases in euro area Member States that could …

The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area is a symptom of policy failures and deficiencies in – among other things … – fiscal policy coordination. The first nine years of the euro were not used effectively in order to improve public finances … difficulties in the euro area, especially in certain member countries. This paper looks back at the history of fiscal policies and …

This paper explains the various concepts of government debt in the euro area with particular emphasis on its size and … general government debt used in the surveillance of the euro area countries, the total liabilities from the government balance … provides information about euro area government debt broken down by maturity, holder or the currency of issue. All these …

hinterfragt. Dabei werden zuerst die Ursachen der Euro-Schuldenkrise beleuchtet. Auf dieser Basis wird erläutert, dass die …

the internal market of the EU. This would increase the wedge between members and non-members of the euro area. …, causing a full-fledged fiscal crisis in Greece and severe fiscal pressures in other euro-area countries. This has prompted a …