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Sauf en Allemagne, la croissance a bien résisté en fin d’année dernière

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Au quatrième trimestre, la France affiche une hausse de son PIB de 0,7 % qui, combinée aux révisions d’un dixième des trimestres précédents, porte la croissance sur l’ensemble de 2021 à 7 %. L’Espagne fait mieux sur les trois derniers mois de l’année, avec une hausse de 2 % de son PIB. La forte révision du troisième trimestre permet là aussi une croissance annuelle un peu meilleure que prévu, de 5 %. Quant à l’Allemagne, la hausse de 2,8 % sur l’ensemble de 2021 cache une baisse de 0,7 % en fin d’année, sous l’effet, notamment, d’une plus faible mobilité. En termes de rattrapage, la France garde donc largement une position de tête par rapport à ses deux voisins : le PIB hexagonal est supérieur de 0,8 % à celui d’avant crise, alors qu’il est en retard de plus de 4 % en Espagne et de 1,5 % en Allemagne.

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Has Spain Found a Winning Strategy?

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Moody’s decision to upgrade Spain’s sovereign debt rating last week is yet another sign that investor confidence is returning to the Iberian Peninsula—a region often held up as a model for crisis-stricken Southern Europe. The Rajoy administration hopes that lowering Spain’s labor costs will boost the country’s competitiveness, enabling it to export its way out of the crisis. With a battered economy and an arduous deleveraging process that will likely leave a lasting dent in domestic demand, many see this as the only strategy for Spain to get back on track to balanced growth—even if it comes at an immediate high social cost.

So is Rajoy’s bet paying off? Has the Spanish economy picked up enough over the past few months to mark a lasting turnaround in the country’s fortunes?

After a Summer Break, The Carrot and the Stick

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After several weeks of major uncertainty, investors hailed the ECB’s promises of late July, and the month of August provided a welcome lull. The two key questions are how long it will be before they start demanding follow-through on those promises, and just what the much-awaited measures will entail. By requiring Spain and Italy to request assistance from the EFSF rescue facility before agreeing to purchases of their government debt, the European leaders will only drive the EU even further into the morass it has been mired in for more than two years. And a growing number of countries in the region will inevitably get dragged down in the process. Unfortunately, those leaders show little inclination to do otherwise.

Spain: Spiraling Downward in Greek Fashion?

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The current approach to managing the sovereign debt crisis is so absurd that it will wind up destroying the European Monetary Union—perhaps even faster than anyone dares to imagine today. With the economy in free-fall since mid-spring, pressing ahead with fiscal adjustment programs means exposing Europe’s crisis-ridden countries to major risks.

Spain’s creditors initially greeted the new austerity plan unveiled by the Rajoy administration with a sigh of relief. Immediately after the prime minister’s announcement, long-term interest rates fell by a substantial 20 bps to 6.60 percent. The pledges offered by the Spanish government in exchange for greater flexibility in meeting the deficit reduction targets set by Brussels seem to have convinced observers. What probably made the biggest impression were the promises to overhaul public administration, with the number of local government councilors to be cut by 30 percent, and at the same time to raise the value-added tax rate by three percentage points.
Yet there are serious grounds for concern about whether Spain can overcome the crisis in this way.