Debt Worsens in the Euro Area and the EU. Portugal Has the 5th Largest
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Eurostat reveals a worsening of the European public debt. Greece leads (143.5%), but it was the one that reduced most. Portugal, with 91% of GDP, dropped 3.9 points in homologous terms.
Five years ago, a four-decade-long house of government bonds ended. Investors, large capital collectors and private investors have been slowly, but steadily, separating themselves from government securities of relatively highly indebted nations. France, which is one of the worry children of the European debt club with a government debt of 115 percent and a budget deficit of 5.7 percent, has now also fallen into the wake of the sell-off.The IMF's…
According to data released today by the European statistical office, in the same quarter, the public debt of the euro area was 87.2% and between October and December 2025 reached 87.7% of GDP. In the EU, the ratio of gross public debt to GDP was in the first quarter of 2025 in 81.4% and in the last three months of 2025 in 81.8% of GDP. At the end of the first quarter of 2026, government debt consisted of 84.3% of debt securities in the euro area…
Among the Member States, Greece presented in the first quarter the largest debt ratio (143.5% of GDP), followed by Italy (138.9%), France (117.6 %), with Portugal presenting the fifth largest (91% of GDP)
The public debt of the euro area increased in the first quarter to 88.9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and that of the European Union (EU) to 82.9%, with Portugal registering the fifth highest (91%), according to Eurostat.
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