At the first cabinet meeting of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump declared his intention to impose a sweeping 25% tariff on all imports from the European Union. But before opening a ...

On May 15, AEI’s Desmond Lachman welcomed a panel of experts to discuss the likelihood of a eurozone crisis today. Charles Dallara of Partners Group USA contextualized the 2010–12 eurozone crisis, ...

Trade conflicts, customs barriers and potential stock market bubbles pose risks to financial stability in the eurozone, the European Central Bank (ECB) said on Wednesday. In its biannual financial ...

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, several European countries – Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain – faced high public debt, weak economic growth and fragile banking sectors. These ...

Two huge financial dangers that still seemed somewhat unlikely a few months ago now appear hard to avoid. First, the common euro currency is in deep trouble, and European governments are frantically ...

As France's minority government hovers on the brink of collapse over its austerity plans, fears are mounting that the debt of the EU's second-largest economy is spinning out of control.Few doubt that ...

As European policymakers struggle to find a way out of the seemingly unending crisis that has bound together banks and sovereigns like two struggling swimmers trying to hold each other above the waves ...

We are back in the throws of the eurozone crisis. Greece’s debt has been downgraded again, Italy is facing new scrutiny about its growth prospects, and poor results for the ruling Socialist party in ...

The countries in the eurozone are: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta ...

Given Germany’s shrinking economy and serious public-debt problems in both Italy and France, Donald Trump’s proposed import tariffs risk triggering a Europe-wide recession and another eurozone debt ...