Economics
Europe’s Debt Reckoning May Mean Tough Choices on Who to Tax
- Austerity experience makes spending cuts less likely
- Merkel, Le Maire deny plans to raise taxes to pay crisis bill
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Europe’s leaders may be united on the need to throw money at economies during the coronavirus crisis, but they have yet to confront how to pay for it all.
That reckoning could force governments across the region into tough choices about where to lay the burden among voters already disillusioned with political establishments -- a decade after the global financial crisis presented them with previous bills to settle.