{"id":272926,"date":"2026-01-31T01:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272926\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T01:36:14","slug":"contingent-liabilities-and-non-performing-loans-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272926\/","title":{"rendered":"Contingent liabilities and non-performing loans in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most common form of contingent liabilities<\/a> in the EU<\/a> countries is government guarantees<\/a> on liabilities<\/a> and, occasionally, on assets of third parties.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the highest levels of government guarantees were recorded in the Netherlands (31.0% of GDP), Finland (17.0%) and Italy (14.6%). On the lower end of the scale, rates equal to or less than 1% of GDP were recorded in Ireland, Czechia and Bulgaria.\u202f<\/p>\n

This information comes from data on contingent liabilities and non-performing loans<\/a> published by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Government<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: gov_cl_guar<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

In most EU countries, the central government is the predominant guarantor. A notable level of local government guarantees can be seen in Finland, Sweden, France and Denmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Liabilities of public corporations highest in Germany\u00a0<\/p>\n

The level of liabilities of public corporations classified outside general government in 2024 varied widely across the EU countries. Significant amounts of liabilities were recorded in Germany (84.4% of GDP), ahead of the Netherlands (73.1%), Luxembourg (65.0%) and France (61.9%). \u00a0<\/p>\n

In contrast, amounts of less than 10% of GDP in public corporation liabilities were recorded in Slovakia (3.4%), Spain (4.3%), Cyprus (7.3%) and Romania (8.7%). \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Liabilities<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: gov_cl_liab<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cyprus remained the country with the highest level of non-performing loans\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2024, Cyprus remained the country with the highest stock of non-performing loans (assets) of the general government, at 9.0% of GDP. In the other countries, stock of non-performing loans was below 1% of GDP, with the highest percentages reported by Croatia (0.8% of GDP), Greece (0.6%) and Sweden (0.5%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Portugal and Slovakia with largest liabilities related to off-balance public-private partnerships \u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Liabilities related to off-balance public-private partnerships (PPPs, long-term construction contracts where assets are recorded outside government accounts) were below 2% of GDP. 9 EU countries had no such liabilities. Portugal had the highest share (1.2% of GDP), followed by Slovakia (1.0%) and Latvia (0.6%). These PPP liabilities are predominantly due to motorway projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most common form of contingent liabilities in the EU countries is government guarantees on liabilities and, occasionally,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,757,113,69585,19358,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-272926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-economy-and-finance","12":"tag-gov","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}