Europe Weekly

Bulgaria is simultaneously navigating a maritime security crisis in the Black Sea and a domestic economic squeeze, as drone attacks on commercial vessels raised fears of war spillover and September inflation climbed to...

Slovenia's new government is pressing ahead with a development-oriented budget for 2027–28, pledging to keep the deficit below the European Union's 3% threshold while funding infrastructure, digitalisation and municipal...

Romania has ended nearly six months of political paralysis with the approval of Luca Niculescu's minority cabinet, but the relief may be short-lived. The new government must reduce one of the European Union's largest...

Belgium faces one of the European Union's most acute fiscal emergencies, with a deficit of 5.2 percent of GDP and public debt approaching 108 percent in 2025. Prime Minister Bart De Wever's government is pursuing...

The Netherlands is expanding economically, yet households face renewed pressure from rising fuel, energy and housing costs, with consumer prices climbing to 3.4 percent in September 2026. An approaching election is...

Germany's government has upgraded its growth forecast for 2026, citing stronger exports and public investment, but persistently high inflation and energy costs are limiting what citizens feel in their daily lives. At...

Spain faces a deepening affordability crisis as house prices surged 12.2 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, while inflation projections have risen sharply, complicating the government's economic...

Italy's parliament has approved a sweeping electoral reform that grants majority bonus seats to any alliance crossing 42% of the vote, raising questions about democratic fairness and political engineering...

Greece's government is presenting a 2027 budget built on strong growth projections and a primary surplus, while simultaneously rolling out emergency energy relief as household inflation accelerates sharply. The gap...

Denmark is navigating one of its most consequential fiscal moments in a generation, pushing defence expenditure toward 3.5 percent of GDP by 2030 while simultaneously proposing tax cuts that critics warn could overheat...

Ireland's government is sitting on projected surpluses worth billions of euros, yet hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers are striking and households say they cannot feel the improvement. Budget 2027 and an...

Czechia faces a twin economic pressure test as inflation returned above target in September 2026 and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš escalated his confrontation with EU climate policy. The two developments are reshaping...

Slovakia's parliament has approved a 2027 budget projecting a general-government deficit of 4.94 percent of GDP, higher than the previous year's already elevated shortfall and part of a fiscal path that would push...

Hungary's new government is pursuing a sweeping fiscal overhaul, combining a proposed wealth tax on its richest households with a long-range target to adopt the euro by 2032. Both moves are designed to signal a break...

Austria faces a politically charged dilemma as its 2026 deficit is forecast to reach 4.1 percent of GDP, well above the EU's 3 percent threshold, while economic growth remains too weak to ease the burden on households...