{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_pzu35qyldoscpfxrjnbq","title":"Lifting the curtain on the EU’s debt","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/lifting-the-curtain-on-the-eus-debt-pzu35qyldo","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_pzu35qyldoscpfxrjnbq","seq":543897,"kind":"article","title":"Lifting the curtain on the EU’s debt","url":"https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/lifting-curtain-eus-debt","summary":"The EU’s far-reaching response to a series of major shocks has turned it into a major borrower on international financial markets. Debt issued by the EU on behalf of its member states now stands at close to 5½% of GDP, almost twice as much as six years ago. This column highlights two crucial issues associated with this trend. It reviews implications for conventional debt statistics and looks at debt servicing obligations.","published":"2026-09-28T23:00:00Z","seen":"2026-09-28T23:48:39Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-cepr-org-e3b0dd","name":"cepr.org","domain":"cepr.org","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q380062","name":"Centre for Economic Policy Research","type":"other","country":"GB","designations":["nonprofit organization","research network"]}},"via":"kite-cepr-org-e3b0dd","topics":["economy"],"authors":["Martin Larch, Alice Lucius"],"entities":[{"id":"Q211593","name":"Eu","type":"org"}],"story":"st_pzu35qyldoscpfxrjnbq","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.5199999809265137,"category2":"politics","sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.17000000178813934,"political":0.7900000214576721}]}