Unlike during the previous debt crisis, eurozone banks are better capitalised and more profitable, providing a buffer against potential sovereign and corporate credit shocks. However, the ...

European Union governments are considering a wider definition of what is defence investment to allow for more government ...

Poland supports the idea of creating a "rearmament" bank to help Europe pay for the huge defence investment it needs as ...

Many Europeans will still be aware of the euro-zone debt crisis, and perhaps nervous when they hear that world debt to GDP is rising to historically very high levels. In the US, federal debt to ...

Eurozone policymakers are struggling simultaneously ... which had been created in 2010 to address the sovereign debt crisis. The problem with this rubric is that neither national governments ...

The European sovereign-debt crisis exposed serious flaws and inconsistencies in the design of the eurozone financial system. National banks in Europe had portfolios of assets that were heavily ...

Harriet joined the Journal in Frankfurt in 2010 as a financial reporter, before moving to Berlin to cover the German government and economy during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments in emerging market economies (EMEs) ratcheted up their spending and borrowing, leading to the sharp increases in debt shown in Figure 1..

During the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis in 2009-12, Germany was pivotal in setting up various stability funds to bail out debtor countries. It took a leadership role in the implementation of the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century ... while businesses can invest and create jobs. Elevated levels of sovereign debt. The proactive management ...