Europe Economic Outlook Crunch year for the euro-zone? While the news on the euro-zone economy has improved a bit in the last month or two, 2012 could still turn out to be crunch year for the currency union. Fiscal progress in the peripheral economies has... 6th February 2012 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Deepening crisis to prompt widespread recession The euro-zone debt crisis is having a severely damaging impact on the European macro-economy. Not only are the troubled peripheral economies set to remain deep in recession, but growth prospects have... 3rd November 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Crisis deepens as slowdown spreads to the core The latest rescue package for Greece has reduced the threat of a near-term catastrophe in the eurozone.But it does not address the fundamental problems facing Greece itself and is unlikely to bring an... 27th July 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Two-speed recovery set to slow The European economic recovery has remained very much of the two-speed variety as the eurozone’s core economies and some countries outside the single currency area have grown robustly, while the... 27th April 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Growth to falter as the fiscal crisis deepens The European economy has largely shrugged off the ongoing fiscal crisis in the euro-zone periphery and continued to expand at a healthy pace. But while the improvement in the global environment and... 20th January 2011 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Fiscal tightening starts to bite (Q4 2010) The European economy has recently performed relatively well despite continued fears about public debt in parts of the region. But as global demand slows, the export recovery will falter, with the euro... 13th October 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Stronger surface hides widening cracks (Q3 10) The recent news on the European economy has defied the ongoing concerns over the fiscal crisis in the peripheral countries of the euro-zone. But the recovery in the export and industrial sectors could... 28th July 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Fiscal crisis casts an ever longer shadow (Q2 2010) The European economy has shown further signs of recovery in response to the continued improvement in global economic and trade conditions. But the fiscal crisis in the euro-zone’s peripheral economies... 27th April 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Fiscal worries cloud the outlook (Q1 2010) Europe’s economies have continued to benefit from the improvement in the global environment, but there are still major uncertainties over the likely strength and sustainability of the upturn in the... 21st January 2010 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook A slow but steady recovery (Q4 2009) Europe appears to have turned a corner, with the German and French economies already expanding in Q2 and most others set to follow suit in the third quarter. But the recovery is unlikely to be very... 28th October 2009 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Trailing behind (Q3 2009) On the whole, signs of recovery have been less convincing in Europe than elsewhere. A relatively cautious policy stance and the delayed effects of the credit crunch suggest that the euro-zone, in... 14th July 2009 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Export slump limits recovery prospects (Q2 09) The severe impact on Europe’s exporters of the outright collapse in global demand and tradeflows will cause most economies in the region to contract very sharply in 2009. Indeed, most will now see... 29th April 2009 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Industrial slump deepens downturn (Q1 09) The outlook for the European economy has worsened dramatically as the export-dependent industrial sector has slumped in the face of collapsing global demand. Although falling inflation should boost... 21st January 2009 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Caught in the storm (Q4 08) The outlook for the European economy has continued to deteriorate as the global financial crisis has intensified and the international environment has worsened. At the same time, domestic housing... 30th October 2008 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Inflation dents growth prospects (Q3 08) Our long-held view that the European economy will fare relatively well during the current global economic downturn has come under threat from the surge in inflation in the region. Not only has the... 16th July 2008 · 1 min read
Europe Economic Outlook Major economies diverging as growth slows (Q2 08) The outlook for the European economy remains relatively bright compared to the major downturn underway in the US. Nonetheless, divergences are widening between those economies subject to US-style... 30th April 2008 · 1 min read
