ECB's Kazaks Warns Tariffs Raise Risk of Euro-Area Recession
European Central Bank Governing Council member Martins Kazaks said that tariffs announced by the US were stoking uncertainty and raising the risk of an economic recession in the euro area.
'Recession is not currently the base scenario, but with potentially such large-scale changes in geopolitics and global trade, its probability is high,' Kazaks, who is also governor of the Latvian central bank, said in a blog on Monday.
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