The European Commission’s call for a fiscal stimulus of 1.5% of GDP makes little difference to the economic outlook. Indeed, some European governments will argue that they have already done enough. Nonetheless, the economic downturn looks set to put a bigger hole in the public finances than the EC currently expects, implying a damaging period of fiscal consolidation in later years.
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