{"id":628519,"date":"2026-04-25T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:36:09","slug":"macron-says-would-be-silly-not-to-roll-over-eu-covid-era-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628519\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron Says Would Be \u2018Silly\u2019 Not to Roll Over EU Covid-Era Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">French President Emmanuel Macron said the European Union\u2019s Covid-era debt should be rolled over and the bloc should issue new bonds, making the case for flexibility during \u201cextraordinary times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense to repay the Covid debt right now, which would have a negative impact on budgets, when there\u2019s a demand for European securities and bonds,\u201d Macron said in Athens on Saturday. \u201cWe got indebted during Covid. Today, we\u2019re told: we need to pay it back fast. That\u2019s silly. Let\u2019s roll over this debt; let\u2019s issue new bonds again, because people want these securities at a low price. That gives us breathing room.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron said the European Union\u2019s Covid-era debt should be rolled over and the bloc should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18837,3244,45,49,48,8614,5427,14206,548,46,3412,3456,637,3057,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-628519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-athens","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-coronavirus","14":"tag-debt","15":"tag-defense-spending","16":"tag-economics","17":"tag-economy","18":"tag-emmanuel-macron","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-france","21":"tag-greece","22":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}