Zach Abraham Weighs in On the EU’s Historic Coronavirus Stimulus Package

Zach Abraham’s comments on the historic European Union’s $826 billion coronavirus stimulus package (750-billion-euro) were recently featured on both Bezinga.com* and Yahoo! Finance.

 

The European Union is proposing a ($824 billion) coronavirus recovery plan to assist the bloc with its recovery. The funds, as well as targeted reinforcements to the long-term EU budget for 2021-2027, will bring the total financial firepower of the EU budget to 1.85 trillion euros, according to the European Commission.

EU Must Evolve To Survive, CIO Zach Abraham Says

“While the EU relief package will certainly help things in Europe, it appears to be more of a stop gap measure and pales in comparison to actions taken by the U.S. government,” said Zach Abraham, chief investment officer and principal at Bulwark Capital Management.

“Although we are keeping a watchful eye on all ECN and EU relief measures, we are far more focused on recent comments by Macron and Merkel that point to a willingness or at least an openness to a tighter fiscal union.”

In Abraham’s view, the EU cannot continue as it is structured today.

“Either Germany will have to relent on ECB guidelines which restrict the central bank from applying unilateral QE and other forms of monetary stimulus (currently the ECB can only apply monetary stimulus evenly across all member countries) or more countries, specifically Italy and Spain, will be forced to leave.” This issue is far more critical to the economic prospects of the EU as a whole, the professional investor said.

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Interestingly, Germany announced it was seeking a fresh $112 billion coronavirus stimulus package, just days after the EU launched its historic $826 billion plan: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/germany-economy-112-billion-coronavirus-stimulus-rescue-plan-2020-6-1029271636

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You can read the original articles here:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/european-union-sets-750-billion-192730975.html

https://www.benzinga.com/news/20/05/16115773/european-union-sets-out-750-billion-euro-coronavirus-recovery-plan

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