
Vasilis Psarras – writer at EST – discusses the meaning, implications and future of the rules regulating the public debt to GDP ratio across EU member states: the Sustainability Growth Pact. After two years of suspension due to the pandemic, rules and percentages are once again a matter of discussion among policymakers, but what are they? And what is their impact?
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This episode was hosted by Victoria Bergstörm and Florentin Ndizeye. Edited by Asimina Melissi and Laura Sanzarello, and sound engineered by Angeliki-Efraimia Markopoulou. Research and content by Vasilis Psarras
Music by John Sib and Winking Fox Music.

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