Die US-amerikanische Ratingagentur Standard & Poor’s senkt den Daumen über die EU. Grund sei der mangelnde Zusammenhalt unter den Mitgliedsländern, wie sich zuletzt bei der EU-Budget-Debatte gezeigt habe.
The rating agency Standard & Poor’s has withdrawn its top rating of the EU. The long-term rating was lowered on Friday from „AAA“ to „AA +“. „In our opinion, the creditworthiness of the now 28 EU Member States has decreased overall“, said the U.S. rating agency. It plays a role that the cohesion of the EU Member States have taken off. The show itself in tensions during the recent negotiations on the EU budget. This signaled rising risks that the EU could lose in some Member States to support. A few states have the approval of the budget, at least temporarily blocked. „We believe it is possible that the negotiations must be resumed prematurely,“ wrote the experts. The EU had agreed in the summer after months of wrangling on a budget by 2020. http://www.euractiv.com/video/money-lets-make-it-count-307372Decision was preceded in recent months, a downgrade of the ratings of France, Italy, Spain, Malta, Slovenia, Cyprus and the Netherlands. The danger that the EU’s rating would be reduced again soon, but was low, was S & P: the outlook they judge to be stable. The EU can borrow on the market on their own account, but one of the small players in the bond market. By S & P are currently calculations bonds with a volume of 56 billion euros in circulation. The money was needed mainly for Ireland and Portugal. EURACTIV / rtr