{"id":12598,"date":"2025-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/the-eurozone-economy-grew-by-0-4-thanks-to-a-jump-in-ireland-without-which-growth-was-more-modest\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:00:00","slug":"the-eurozone-economy-grew-by-0-4-thanks-to-a-jump-in-ireland-without-which-growth-was-more-modest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/the-eurozone-economy-grew-by-0-4-thanks-to-a-jump-in-ireland-without-which-growth-was-more-modest\/","title":{"rendered":"The eurozone economy grew by 0.4%, thanks to a jump in Ireland \u2013 without which growth was more modest."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>According to Eurostat, the economy of the 20 eurozone countries grew by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2025, beating forecasts of only 0.2%. However, experts point out that this result is largely distorted \u2013 a significant contribution to the overall statistics was made by Ireland, where GDP grew by 3.2% due to the activity of multinational corporations operating in the country for tax reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The largest economies of the eurozone showed modest growth rates: Germany added 0.2%, France \u2013 0.1%, Italy \u2013 0.3%. Without the Irish surge, overall growth in the eurozone would have been significantly lower, indicating continued economic sluggishness in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Additional concern is the fall in the key business sentiment index. The European Central Bank has previously warned that market instability caused by foreign policy factors and a decline in business confidence will negatively affect growth rates. Before the new US tariffs were imposed, the eurozone\u2019s growth was expected to be no more than 1%, and any further shock could tip the region into recession.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eurostat, the economy of the 20 eurozone countries grew by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2025, beating forecasts of only 0.2%. However, experts point out that this result is largely distorted \u2013 a significant contribution to the overall statistics was made by Ireland, where GDP grew by 3.2% due to the activity of multinational corporations operating in the country for tax reasons.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermodal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}