The government debt ratio fell by 0.6 percentage points and by 0.5 percentage points in the Eurozone and the European Union respectively between the first and second quarters of this year, to stand at 86.3% and 81% of GDP respectively, according to figures published by the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat) on Tuesday 23 October.
The drop is all the more significant in view of the figures from the second quarter of 2017, when the government debt ratio stood at 89.2% of GDP...