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European Commission macroeconomic, fiscal and monetary policy announcements have a direct impact on the value of sovereign bond spreads, according to new research from EconPol Europe.

Researchers from EconPol Europe say a system of national convergence roadmaps will achieve a faster implementation of structural reforms for economic convergence in Europe than the country-specific recommendations made by the European Commission in the context of the European Semester.

Three months ahead of the European elections, ifo President Clemens Fuest has expressed his concern about the state of the European Union. "The EU resembles more and more the Habsburg Empire towards its end, when internal and external forces were striving towards disintegration. The EU, its member states and parliament must take countermeasures. First, the EU must do everything it can to avoid a hard Brexit at the end of March," Fuest said on Tuesday in Brussels at the presentation of the European Report 2019 of the EEAG Research Group.

If no agreement in the Sino-American trade dispute is reached by 1 March – the end of the 90-day ‘ceasefire’ agreed by both country’s presidents - China could lose up to €171.3 billion in US exports, with US exports to China contracting by €51 billion.

The budget plans of the new Italian government have the potential to trigger a new financial crisis, according to EconPol Europe researcher Timo Wollmershäuser.