{"id":397582,"date":"2026-04-25T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:35:07","slug":"macron-says-would-be-silly-not-to-roll-over-eu-covid-era-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397582\/","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":397583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20370,910,138,2814,5399,25031,1951,219,21158,2024,1221,6669,220,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-397582","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-coronavirus","12":"tag-debt","13":"tag-defense-spending","14":"tag-economics","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-france","19":"tag-greece","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}