Definition of eurozone
: the geographical area comprising the countries that use the euro as the official currency
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Growth in the eurozone in 2017 was the best since 2007, before the financial crisis.
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After booming in 2017, the eurozone’s economy has slowed this year.
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But remaining on the agenda are major increases in social welfare spending and tax cuts, in defiance of the eurozone’s financial rules.
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This week the third- and fourth-largest economies in the eurozone -- Italy and Spain -- experienced political earthquakes.
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Add to that a massive increase in borrowing for higher public spending (breaking the eurozone’s rules); forced mass immigrant deportations; and the ending of asylum centers.
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At first glance, both developments look like a recipe for deepening economic uncertainty in two of the eurozone’s largest economies.
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In 2012, an ignominious exit from the eurozone looked almost inevitable.
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The new finance minister is an economist called Giovanni Tria—naturally, a critic of the eurozone.
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First Known Use of eurozone
1995
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