ECB's Kazaks Warns Tariffs Raise Risk of Euro-Area Recession
'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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