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Part V Proposals to Reform Sovereign Debt Systems, 26 Eurozone Financial Rescue and Stabilization Measures, and their Legal Foundations

Andrew Yianni, Nikita Aggarwal

From: Sovereign Debt Management

Edited By: Rosa M Lastra, Lee Buchheit

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 03 June 2023

Subject(s):
European Central Bank — UNCTAD Principles on Responsible Sovereign Financing — Eurozone
26.01 The ‘eurozone crisis’ is the product of several, interdependent challenges that have coincided in the euro area, or eurozone, the single currency area of the European Union (EU). It is characterized by high levels of sovereign debt and elevated sovereign borrowing costs in the mostly southern, peripheral euro area member states and Ireland;2 hence it is often referred to as the eurozone ‘sovereign debt crisis’. However, it also impacts euro area member states that do not have a sovereign debt problem, but which, through concurrent political, financial, and...
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