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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Jan Strupczewski

EU eyes longer, negotiated debt reduction paths in rules review

FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

The European Commission will on Wednesday propose changes to the EU's debt rules that would allow each of the bloc's 27 countries to negotiate its own debt reduction path, the length of which would depend on reforms and investments, officials said.

Changes to the rules are necessary because, after the surge in public debt in European Union countries caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, existing debt reduction requirements have become unrealistically ambitious.

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