Euro area Finance Ministers will discuss the issue of inflation fuelled by corporate profits, the ratification of the reform of the ‘European Stability Mechanism’ (ESM) and the interoperability of a potential digital euro on Monday 15 May in Brussels, two weeks after the Eurogroup meeting in Stockholm (see EUROPE B13172A6).
The macroeconomic situation in the euro area is still marked by a slowdown in activity in the first half of 2023, even though fears of a temporary recession have...