President Ursula von der Leyen and the College of Commissioners are in India today to strengthen the strategic partnership between the European Union and India. Europe is committed to enhancing cooperation with India, one of its most trusted partners and allies, across various sectors, including trade, technology, and defence.
Since the bursting of China’s real-estate bubble in mid-2021, there has been a growing concern that the Chinese economy could end up like that of Japan in the early 1990s. Some structural patterns are strikingly similar: low private consumption over a long period and an excessively high savings ratio, though China’s imbalances now are even larger that Japan’s were then.
This Directorate General is responsible for managing the budget of the European Union, and therefore proposes and implements the financial framework, as well as collects the resources that EU countries have agreed to contribute.
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The European Commission is taking important steps to enhance its financial risk management and compliance framework to keep pace with the significant growth of the Union’s financial operations.
The ECB Governing Council decided to change the rules on the use of credit ratings issued by external credit assessment institutions (ECAIs) to assess the eligibility of private sector assets for use as collateral under the Eurosystem collateral framework and to determine the haircuts to be applied to those assets.
US Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip N. Jefferson talks about central bank communications and the use of textual analysis tools. These tools help process qualitative information that may be hard to capture in numerical forecasts. Also, they can improve our understanding of economic concepts that are otherwise difficult to measure.
The European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group), which comprises the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF), signed new financing worth €12.3 billion in Spain in 2024 – around 14% of the Group’s total financing figure.
EU Ministers debated competitiveness and regulatory burden reduction, while the Commission presented the Competitiveness Compass initiative. They reviewed the economic impact of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and approved guidelines for the EU’s 2026 budget. The Council adopted conclusions on the Alert Mechanism Report 2025, the 2025 euro area economic policy recommendation, and Hungary’s fiscal-structural plan.
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The Eurogroup received an update from Bulgarian Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova on the country’s progress towards adopting the euro. Ministers also reviewed the euro area’s macroeconomic outlook and discussed the draft recommendation for economic policy of the euro area in 2025. Ministers also approved the Eurogroup’s work programme up to July 2025.
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