23 Facts About Eurozone crisis

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European debt crisis, often referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, is a multi-year debt crisis that took place in the European Union from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s.

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Eurozone crisis was caused by a balance-of-payments crisis, which is a sudden stop of foreign capital into countries that had substantial deficits and were dependent on foreign lending.

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The Eurozone crisis was worsened by the inability of states to resort to devaluation .

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Onset of Eurozone crisis was in late 2009 when the Greek government disclosed that its budget deficits were far higher than previously thought.

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The ECB contributed to solve the Eurozone crisis by lowering interest rates and providing cheap loans of more than one trillion euro in order to maintain money flows between European banks.

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Eurozone crisis resulted from the structural problem of the eurozone and a combination of complex factors.

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The crisis subsequently spread to Ireland and Portugal, while raising concerns about Italy, Spain, and the European banking system, and more fundamental imbalances within the eurozone.

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Large upwards revision of budget deficit forecasts due to the international financial Eurozone crisis were not limited to Greece: for example, in the United States forecast for the 2009 budget deficit was raised from $407 billion projected in the 2009 fiscal year budget, to $1.

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European debt Eurozone crisis erupted in the wake of the Great Recession around late 2009, and was characterized by an environment of overly high government structural deficits and accelerating debt levels.

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States that were adversely affected by the Eurozone crisis faced a strong rise in interest rate spreads for government bonds as a result of investor concerns about their future debt sustainability.

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11.

In total, the debt crisis forced five out of 17 eurozone countries to seek help from other nations by the end of 2012.

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Irish sovereign debt Eurozone crisis arose not from government over-spending, but from the state guaranteeing the six main Irish-based banks who had financed a property bubble.

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13.

Euro Plus Monitor report from November 2011 attests to Ireland's vast progress in dealing with its financial Eurozone crisis, expecting the country to stand on its own feet again and finance itself without any external support from the second half of 2012 onwards.

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Unlike other European countries that were severely hit by the Great Recession in the late 2000s and eventually received bailouts in the early 2010s, Portugal had the characteristic that the 2000s were not marked by economic growth, but were already a period of economic Eurozone crisis, marked by stagnation, two recessions and government-sponsored fiscal austerity in order to reduce the budget deficit to the limits allowed by the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact.

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The facility eased fears that the Greek debt Eurozone crisis would spread, and this led to some stocks rising to the highest level in a year or more.

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16.

Eurozone crisis said the European heads of state had given the green light to pilot projects worth billions, such as building highways in Greece.

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Either way, many of the countries involved in the Eurozone crisis are on the euro, so devaluation, individual interest rates, and capital controls are not available.

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18.

The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has suggested that the recent financial market Eurozone crisis in Europe is an attempt to undermine the euro.

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Eurozone crisis ordered the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia intelligence service to investigate the role of the "Anglo-Saxon media" in fomenting the crisis.

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20.

Eurozone crisis's company planned to use Dealz in continental Europe; McCarthy stated that "There is less certainty about the longevity [of the currency union] now".

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21.

Eurozone crisis argues that to save the Euro long-term structural changes are essential in addition to the immediate steps needed to arrest the crisis.

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22.

Financial reforms within the U S since the financial crisis have only served to reinforce special protections for derivatives—including greater access to government guarantees—while minimising disclosure to broader financial markets.

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23.

Finland's recommendation to the Eurozone crisis countries is to issue asset-backed securities to cover the immediate need, a tactic successfully used in Finland's early 1990s recession, in addition to spending cuts and bad banking.

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