Overall, the EU’s peripheral nations - Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain - have already reduced their debt-to-GDP ratios significantly since the pandemic and continue to make gradual ...

If peripheral countries want to give something substantial to the world, they must do so without refueling historical forms of expansionism. Peripheral countries are ones that have been oppressed and ...

(Bloomberg) -- A remarkable role reversal is underway across the euro area just over a decade since a series of fiscal crises almost broke the single currency. Back then it was the so-called periphery ...

Headlines were made earlier today as Ireland’s ten year borrowing costs dropped below the UK’s for the first time in six years. Given that it only recently exited a bailout programme and not long ago ...

European Central Bank headquarters are pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Fiscal spending in "core" euro zone countries, such as Germany, would ...

Spain is different than other periphery countries, contends the vice-chair of Santander (STD), who says higher bond spreads do not reflect the real situation with Spanish debt. Nobel Economist ...

There are doubts that the peripheral countries have the will to cut and tax their way to stability. That leaves growth as the way to balance the books. Where will it come from? The markets are not ...