{"id":436,"date":"2010-06-08T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intuitiveinvestor.com\/web\/?p=436"},"modified":"2018-08-18T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T21:51:14","slug":"further-positive-eu-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/06\/08\/further-positive-eu-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Further positive EU reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Today European finance ministers agreed to critical economic reforms.\u00a0 Among the reforms are the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span class=\"goog-spellcheck-word\">Eurostat<\/span>, the European economic statistician, has been given the authority to audit the finances of EU member nations.\u00a0 This has been done to mitigate against European Union countries from lying about their economic performance via number.\u00a0 In the past, nations have lied to cover up gigantic amounts of public debts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The ministers also agreed to force member nations to submit their budgets to a peer review to the EU Commission before passage in local parliaments is possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Tougher sanctions have been put in place should governments fail to adhere to the debt to GDP ratio being below 3%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The exact details are still forthcoming and official announcement has yet to be made.\u00a0 However, it is a continued good sign that the EU is willing to enact difficult reforms in order to stabilize financial markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today European finance ministers agreed to critical economic reforms.\u00a0 Among the reforms are the following: Eurostat, the European economic statistician, has been given the authority to audit the finances of EU member nations.\u00a0 This has been done to mitigate against European Union countries from lying about their economic performance via number.\u00a0 In the past, nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}