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In the euro area in February 2026, compared with February 2025, industrial production decreased for intermediate goods by 1.5%, increased for energy by 2.0%, increased for capital goods by 2.5%, decreased for durable consumer goods […]

The big motor is fiscal policy and because of the flawed design in the Eurozone it is dysfunctional in the extreme. Central bank policy shifts can do little to counter the damage that fiscal austerity […]

In the first quarter 2021, seasonally adjusted GDP decreasedby 0.6% inthe euro areaandby 0.4%in the EU,compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European […]