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The Eurocrisis:
new challenges for the EU’s
economic policy
Thomas Westphal
Director General European Policy
German Federal Ministry of Finance
23th of February 2015
College of Europe, Bruges
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Five points:
1. Talking about EMU
2. The crisis
3. Analysing the current situation
4. What needs to be done to come to a stable
EMU
5. Next steps
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MEETING OF THE HEADS OF STATE OR
GOVERNMENT
THE HAGUE, 1-2 DECEMBER 1969
“They have reaffirmed their readiness to expedite the
further action needed to strengthen the Community and
promote its development into an economic union. …
To this end they agreed … a plan in stages will be
worked out during 1970 with a view to the creation of
an economic and monetary union.”
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Benefits of a Monetary Union
• No exchange rate risk
• Lower transaction cost
• Lower interest rates
• Lower public deficits
• Improvements for the international
monetary system
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Cost of a Monetary Union
Limits the number of policy instruments to
deal with shocks:
• exchange rate policy
• Monetary policy
• commit to coordinate economic/fiscal
policy
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Optimal Currency Area
Ex-ante criteria:
• Flexible prices and wages
• Factor mobility
• Financial market integration
• Open economy
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Optimal Currency Area
Ex-post criteria:
• Trade integration
• Commitment = stability FDI
• Institutional effects
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Five points:
1. Talking about EMU
2. The crisis
3. Analysing the current situation
4. What needs to be done to come to a
stable EMU
5. Next steps
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A crisis in different shapes
• US-subprime crisis (2007)
• Banking crisis (2008)
• Economic crisis (2009)
• Eurozone debt crisis (2010)
• Social and political crisis (current).
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The crisis: loss of confidence
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0
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10
15
20
25
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Long term interest rates
BEL DEU IRL GRC ESP FRA ITA NLD AUT PRT FINQuelle: Eurostat
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-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Euro area inflation rates
Euro area Germany Ireland Greece Spain France Italy ECB reference value
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-5
0
5
10
15
20
25
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Real long-term interest rates
Germany
Ireland
Greece
Spain
France
Italy
Portugal
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Building-up of imbalances
13
90
100
110
120
130
140
150
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Unit labour costs before the crisis Index: 1999=100
Euro area Germany Ireland Greece Spain France Italy Portugal
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Public and private sector debt in % of GDP
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
German
Private Debt
Public Debt
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
Ireland
0
40
80
120
160
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
Greece
0
50
100
150
200
250
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
Spain
0
40
80
120
160
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
France
0
40
80
120
160
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
Italy
0
50
100
150
200
250
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
Portugal
0
40
80
120
160
19
95
19
97
19
99
20
01
20
03
20
05
20
07
20
09
Finland
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What to do?
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growth
debt
reforms banks
competiti-
veness
exchange
rates
bazooka
ECB solidarity
Eurobonds
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Policy coordination
“boldly go where no man has gone before”
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Five points:
1. Talking about EMU
2. The crisis
3. Analysing the current situation
4. What needs to be done to come to a
stable EMU
5. Next steps
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Achievements • Market confidence has
returned
• 3 programmes completed
(IRL, PRT, ESP)
• Ex-programme countries
growing again
• Recession behind us
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90
95
100
105
110
115
120
125
200
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5Q
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Real GDP in the euro area (Index: 2005Q1=100, Commission forecast as of Q1 2015)
Euro area Germany Spain France Italy
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0
20
40
60
80
100
120
193
6
193
8
194
0
194
2
194
4
194
6
194
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2
195
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195
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2
Eurozone aggregated historic debt/GDP for selected countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.
Sources: IMF historical public debt database, Angus Maddison Project, BMF staff calculations
Debt ratio in the Eurozone (% BIP)
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0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
GRC ITA PRT IRL CYP BEL ESP FRA AUT SVN DEU NLD MLT FIN SVK LTU LVA LUX EST
Public debt in the euro area in % of GDP
2013 2014 2015p 2016p 60% Threshold
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-2
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
ESP SVN PRT FRA IRL BEL ITA CYP SVK AUT NLD FIN GRC MLT LVA LTU EST DEU LUX
General government deficit in the euro area in % of GDP
2013 2014 2015p 2016p 3% threshold
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Five points:
1. Talking about EMU
2. The crisis
3. Analysing the current situation
4. What needs to be done to come to a
stable EMU
5. Next steps
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Berlin
A stable EMU: substance
• In absence of political and fiscal union:
CONFIDENCE
• Community vs. Intergouvernemental rules
• Set of (simple) rules (common sence, ownership)
• Fiscal policy: lowering debt ratios, MTO allows
stabilisation via automatic stabilisers
• Policy coordination (forward looking)
• Agreement on debt reduction, structural reforms, how to
support growth
• Internal market, incl complete banking union, budget (put
the money where your mouth is) tax rules?
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A stable EMU: institutional
• Commission: Guardian of the Treaty or political
institution?
• EP: grand coalition? Eurozone chamber?
• Council: ability to shape policy?
• National parliaments: how to ensure national
support for European ideas and policies?
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• Geopolitical
• Political: support for European idea
• Social: unacceptably high unemployment in some countries
• Fiscal: legacy of high public debt limits policy space
• Economic: growth fragile; still need for structural reform
• Institutional: new Commission, new Parliament
• Confidence: need to implement our rules
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Challenges remain
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Five points:
1. Talking about EMU
2. The crisis
3. Analysing the current situation
4. What needs to be done to come to a stable
EMU
5. Next steps
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Berlin
Connect policies
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Policy coordination identifies challenges
Policy recommendation address challenges
Member States act accordingly
EU-budget finances
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Create space for shock absorbtion
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Member States reach MTO
Lower debt ratios = room for lower taxes
automatic stabilisers can work
debt ratios reduced = room for lower taxes