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$260b stimulus package proposed for EU
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-27 07:04

BRUSSELS: The European Commission (EC) Wednesday called for a European Union-wide fiscal stimulus package of 200 billion euros ($259 billion) to stave off looming recession in the 27-nation bloc.

The proposal comes just a day after the US unveiled two new plans that will provide $800 billion to try to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt from home mortgages to credit cards.


European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, gestures, during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, November 26, 2008. The European Commission wants EU governments to jointly combat the growing economic slowdown with a euro200 billion, US$259 billion stimulus plan to boost growth and confidence among consumers and businesses. In a two-year European Economic Recovery Plan, made public Wednesday, it calls on the 27 EU governments to spend more to halt the accelerating economic slowdown that has pushed some European nations into recession. [Agencies]

The EC proposal is an attempt to bridge policy differences among European Union (EU) countries on how to react to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But some are worried that a dash for growth will inflate national deficits at precisely the wrong time.

EU leaders will study the plan at a Dec 11-12 summit, and EC President Jose Manuel Barroso stressed that national governments should regard the scheme as offering them options rather than strict policy diktats.

"Our approach is to offer a toolbox," Barroso told a news conference of a package of proposals worth 1.5 percent of the bloc's GDP, including sales tax cuts and funds to needy sectors such as the auto industry. "Measures that member states are introducing should not be identical, but they need to be coordinated."

France, Britain and several other EU states have already embarked on national efforts to boost their economies. "Measures already announced by member states, of course they are part of this effort," Barroso said.

It is unclear whether the scheme - more ambitious than a package worth just 1 percent of GDP that had originally been mooted - would be sufficient, he said. But economists voiced skepticism about how the plan would be managed.

Christoph Weil, of Commerzbank, said: "The real steps that national governments will take are an open question - it will be different from country to country."

Germany has already said it would resist any attempt to coordinate cuts in sales or value-added tax (VAT) across the EU, while east European states such as Poland do not want to increase their deficits because they need to show budget discipline to adopt the euro currency.

The proposals comprise measures worth 1.2 percentage points of national budget spending and 0.3 points of EU funding.

They call for states to cut value added tax for labor-intensive services and includes plans for at least 5 billion euros of extra funding to encourage the auto industry to develop more environmentally-friendly cars.

But German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against EU states engaging in a competition to produce big stimulus packages for their economies. "We should not get into a race for billions," Merkel told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.

The stimulus, along with the fall in revenue and rise in spending that accompany an economic slowdown, is likely to lift deficits in France, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Portugal to well beyond the EU ceiling of 3 percent of GDP.

EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said temporary breaches would be acceptable as long as states remained close to the upper limit.

In Washington, the US government released a quartet of reports Wednesday that paint a bleak picture of the US economy: Jobless claims remain at recessionary levels, Americans cut back on their spending by the largest amount since 2001, orders to US factories plummeted and home sales fell to the lowest level in nearly 18 years.

In response to the disappointing data, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 60 points in early trading Wednesday.

Agencies

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