Euro area leaders will take stock of the macroeconomic situation on Thursday, 16 December, with a strong recovery due to the national Covid-19 vaccination campaigns.
The nineteen euro area countries will call for close coordination of fiscal policies to anchor growth permanently, noting the Eurogroup statement in favour of maintaining a moderately expansionary fiscal stance for 2022 (see EUROPE B12847A5).
The issue of inflation, and especially the impact on the recovering economy of a higher...