The coordination of EU budgets
The Excessive Deficit Procedure comes at the end of a long series of attempts at coordinating EU macroeconomic policies.
The Excessive Deficit Procedure comes at the end of a long series of attempts at coordinating EU macroeconomic policies.
German trade surpluses are making once again the headlines. The European Commission decided yesterday to launch an investigation into Berlin’s “excessive” trade surplus. This surplus is so large, the Commission argues, that it saps the strength of the Eurozone economic balance (or, put differently, nurtures its imbalances). But is this concern really new?