Bruno Le Maire revives the idea of pooling European public debt

Bruno Le Maire proposes a partial pooling of European public debt, in order to strengthen the euro against the dollar and create a genuine European bond market. He also calls for the acceleration of the digital euro.

Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy from 2017 to 2024, called on social network X on Saturday 19 April for the European Commission to study "the pooling of all national debts" in Europe "over a 50% debt ceiling."He also proposed to "melte in one title" the securities of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and those of the European common debt resulting from the €750 billion recovery plan decided in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, whi…