From
Jan Diesteldorf
The pandemic is over, even Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach says so, but its consequences will be felt for a long time to come. You can see these consequences in the numbers, in the debt levels of EU countries and the European Commission, which gave billions to save Europe’s economy from a deep lockdown recession. In this way they were able to prevent the worst, and they even knew how to cushion the energy crisis in the summer and winter after Russia’s attack on Ukraine with new debts. Now it’s about finding a way back to budgetary discipline in Europe – and a compromise for an update of the crisis exposed EU Debt Rules.