Traduction de «Fardeau d'une dette extérieure » (Français → Anglais) :

Croatia is experiencing excessive imbalances.Vulnerabilities are linked to high levels of public, private and external debt, both largely denominated in foreign currency, in a context of low potential growth.The current account surpluses have begun to translate into a decrease of the gross external debt, which nevertheless remains elevated.

74. Regrets that the burden has not been shared among all who acted irresponsibly and that the protection of bondholders was seen as an EU necessity in the interests of financial stability; asks the Council to activate the framework it decided on the treatment of legacy assets so as to breakdown the vicious circle between sovereigns and the banks and alleviate the public debt burden in Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Cyprus; urges the Eurogroup to deliver on its commitment to examine the situation of the Irish financial sector with a view to further improving the sustainability of the adjustment in Ireland, and, having regard to all of t ...[+++]he above, urges the Eurogroup to make good on the commitment to Ireland to deal with this bank debt burden; believes special consideration should be given to the application of the Stability and Growth Pact to relevant legacy debt, since the latter is perceived in Ireland as unfair and as burdening the country under the flexibility provisions of the reformed pact; considers that in the longer term the distribution of the costs should reflect distribution of the protected bondholders; takes note of the Irish authorities' demand for a transfer of a share of public debt corresponding to the cost of the bailout of the financial sector to the ESM;

M. whereas debt contracted by authoritarian regimes against the interests of their population and not spent in their interest constitutes odious debt; whereas civil society organisations and parliamentarians from Tunisia and Egypt have called for an independent audit of their national debt; whereas Tunisian President Marzouki, in his speech at the European Parliament on 1 February 2013, called for European Member States to follow the example of Germany by converting part of the Tunisian external debt contracted during the Ben Ali regime into development assistance; whereas over 100 Members of the European Parliament have signed a petition calling for the ...[+++]suspension of the payment of the Tunisian external debt pending an independent audit, in order to identify the odious and illegitimate part of this debt; whereas a quarter of the Tunisian external debt is held by France and the European Investment Bank, according to the World Bank;

Does the Council not believe that the external debt and debt servicing of the least developed countries represents an enormous constraint on their development, which has already obliged them to dedicate a large proportion of their resources to servicing a dent which should, surely, now be written off?

A. stressing that external debt is an intolerable economic and social burden for poor countries in that it represents an insurmountable obstacle to their development,

5. Notes with deep concern that in spite of the various efforts to address the debt crisis, the external debt of many developing countries has grown at a very high rate over recent years and that it effectively cripples the ability of many countries to develop their economies and to address urgent social needs, such as health and education;