Sentence examples for eurozone borrowing from inspiring English sources

German 10-year Bund yields, which set the standard for eurozone borrowing costs, hit a new low of 0.377%, down from 0.53% before Draghi spoke.

Not only France, Italy and Spain, but also the European commission, the IMF and the Obama administration are urging Germany to accept eurobonds (collective eurozone borrowing), bigger bailout funds to intervene in sovereign bond markets and a banking union, which would include common deposit insurance and bank recapitalisation schemes.

Last month, eurozone banks borrowed €489bn (£405bn) under the ECB's new three-year lending programme.

Bank customers in these southern eurozone states borrowed to buy goods from the wealthier north, mainly from Germany; and then the economic growth they anticipated failed to occur.

Echoing calls by the Spanish and Italian governments for German support to bring down the costs of their borrowing in the bond markets, Hollande said they should be able to finance themselves at "reasonable" rates, and added it was unfair some eurozone countries were borrowing at 1% and others at 7%.

I am resolutely opposed to this as we do not want to enable a eurozone country to continue borrowing and avoid difficult reform efforts at the expense of its neighbours.

In Mexico last week at the G20 and then in Rome at two bad-tempered summits in recent days, the Americans and the British – in cahoots with the leaders of France, Spain and Italy – sought to press Merkel into bankrolling fiscal stimulus and bank recapitalisation policies that would cut the vulnerable eurozone countries' cost of borrowing.

Portugal has singularly failed to share in the fall in the cost of borrowing for eurozone governments since the ECB did its stuff in December.

On a global level, there is evidence that the introduction of the euro has led to an integration in terms of investment in bond portfolios, with eurozone countries lending and borrowing more between each other than with other countries.

Eurozone banks can borrow as much as they want from the central bank at zero interest, but there is a catch.

It states that governments inside the eurozone can only borrow up to 3% of their GDP, with fines for those who disobey.