{"id":432904,"date":"2025-07-21T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/07\/21\/sale-il-debito-dellue-in-italia-e-al-1379-per-cento-del-pil\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:26:51","slug":"eu-debt-rises-italys-reaches-137-9-percent-of-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/21\/eu-debt-rises-italys-reaches-137-9-percent-of-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"EU debt rises; Italy’s reaches 137.9 percent of GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The public debt to GDP ratio in the European Union rose in the first months of 2025. During the first quarter, it increased from 81 percent to 81.8 percent<\/strong>. In Italy, where the increase is almost threefold, at 2.5 percentage points, the debt now stands at 137.9 percent of the national GDP. <\/p>\n

The increase is generalized and affects the 20 countries that share the single currency: in the first quarter of the year, debt in the euro area rose from 87.4 percent to 88 percent of GDP. The situation compared with a year ago is less alarming: the increase compared to the first quarter of 2024 was 0.6 percentage points for the EU and 0.2 points for the euro area.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The picture taken by Eurostat<\/a> shows the individual components: for the EU, the general government debt comprised 83.6 percent of debt securities, 13.9 percent loans, and 2.5 percent cash and deposits.<\/p>\n

 The highest ratios of public debt to GDP were recorded in Greece <\/b>(152.5 percent), Italy <\/b>(137.9 percent), France <\/b>(114.1 percent), Belgium <\/b>(106.8 percent), and Spain <\/b>(103.5 percent). Conversely, those with the books most in order were Bulgaria <\/b>(23.9 percent), Estonia <\/b>(24.1 percent), Luxembourg <\/b>(26.1 percent), and Denmark<\/b> (29.9 percent).<\/p>\n

 From January to March 2025, sixteen Member States recorded an increase in the debt ratio, while it decreased in ten Member States, and remained stable in the Czech Republic<\/b>. The most significant increases were observed in Austria <\/b>and Slovakia<\/b> (both +3.5 percentage points), Slovenia <\/b>(+2.9 percentage points), Italy <\/b>(+2.5 percentage points), Lithuania <\/b>(+2.4 percentage points), Poland <\/b>(+2.2 percentage points), and Belgium <\/b>(+2.1 percentage points). Greece (-1.1 percentage points) was among the virtuous countries in this sense. Together with Ireland (-3.7 percentage points) and Latvia (-1.2 percentage points), it was among the countries that have managed to reduce their public debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the first quarter of the year, the debt ratio of the 27 rose by an average of 0.8 percentage points to 81.8 percent. A substantial increase is observed in Italy (+2.5 percentage points), while in Greece, it falls by 1.1 percentage points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":253055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26180,25815,25741,31425,26105,25740,31798],"class_list":["post-432904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-debt-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-accounts-public-en","tag-rapporto-debito-pil-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432905,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432904\/revisions\/432905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}