EU Sources: Stability Pact Already Allows Flexibility for High Inflation
EU sources say the bloc's Stability Pact already allows flexibility for countries facing high inflation, though funding energy support through extra VAT revenue is more complicated.
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The European Union's Stability Pact already contains sufficient flexibility to accommodate member states facing high inflation, EU sources told ANSA.
According to the sources, the fiscal framework's existing provisions can be applied to countries dealing with elevated price pressures without requiring new rules or amendments.
The sources added, however, that using additional value-added tax (VAT) revenue to fund energy-support measures is a more complicated matter, suggesting that mechanism faces practical or legal hurdles that the inflation-related flexibility does not.
ANSA's report did not specify which EU countries might seek to use this flexibility, nor did it detail the specific provisions being referenced. The sources were not named in the report.
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