EU House Price Change Since Credit Crisis (2008-2012)

This chart with data from Eurostat shows the average change in the house prices in the EU since the credit crisis really started to break down in the United States, the second half of 2008, until the third quarter of 2012. Countries known for being in a big crisis at the moment saw the largest declines in their house prices, mainly Ireland and Spain. The Netherlands and Denmark have to highest household debt-to-gdp ratio's in the world and saw their house prices declines a lot as well. The last group of countries on the downside are several East-European countries for which Latvia and Lithuania saw big declines. In contrast, three out of four Scandinavia countries had their house prices increase substantially.

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Credit Ratings, U.S., Japan and Euro Zone (Oct 2012)

Thompson Reuters created this graph with the long term sovereign debt ratings for the Western countries. For the three major credit rating institutions the ratings are listed.

Thompson Reuters

Government Debt in the EU Countries (second quarter 2012)

This great graph from Reuters shows per EU country the government debt it had at the end of the second quarter, as a percentage of GDP.

Since the crisis Portugal, Ireland have been accumulating debt at a high rate, while seeing their economy shrink significantly. This is shows in the government-debt-to-GDP measure, for which they are in respectively  the third and the fourth place in having the highest government debt in the EU.

Estonia and Bulgaria have the lowest government debt in the EU.

2012 Forecast: Double Dip Recession in Euro Zone

The European Commission released its latest forecast for the change in yearly GDP for the countries in the European Union. Compared to the current forecast for the growth of 2011 (no definite figures yet), all countries except for two, are expected to grow (or contract) at a lower rate in 2012. Ironically Greece is among the two countries that is expected to do better this year, than last year. Although it's still the country with the highest expected contraction in the EU.

The Euro Zone as a whole is expected to contract by 0,3%, while for the European Union a zero percent 'growth' is expected.

Reuters

Credit Ratings Of European Countries: Update

Since the last graph on the Euro Zone Credit Ratings Portugal and Ireland have been downgraded by Moody's. This graph from Reuters gives a great overview of the ratings of Euro Zone countries by the three rating agencies.

Reuters

Italy's Share In Total Euro Zone Government Debt

Italy has the second largest norminal government debt outstanding in the Euro Zone. Total Euro Zone Government Debt in 2010 was 9.3 Trillion Euro.

Change in Industrial Production in the Eurozone 2005-2010

Der Spiegel made a great graph with the percentage change in the Industrial Production for the Eurozone countries between 2005 and 2010. Check Belgium and Luxembourg. Click on the image for a bigger version.

EU Corporate Tax Rates

In this graph you can see the current corporate tax rates for the countries in the European Union.

Source: Adam Smith

Change in Gross Government Debt in 2010

The next graph of the research institute of the Netherlands CPB gives the change in the Gross Government Debt in 2010 compared to 2009 for European countries. 

Source: CPB

Where Oostenrijk = Austria; Belgie = Belgium; Griekenland = Greece, Duitsland = Germany; Verenigd Koningkrijk = United Kingdom; Frankrijk = France, Italie = Italy; Spanje = Spain, Nederland = The Netherlands; Zweden = Sweden; Slovenie = Slovenia; Eurogebied = Eurozone; Slowakijke = Slowakia; Denemarken = Denmark; Ierland = Ireland.

Change in EMU-balance in 2010

The next graph of the research institute of the Netherlands CPB gives the change in the EMU-balance in 2010 compared to 2009 for European countries. 

Source: CPB

Where Oostenrijk = Austria; Belgie = Belgium; Griekenland = Greece, Duitsland = Germany; Verenigd Koningkrijk = United Kingdom; Frankrijk = France, Italie = Italy; Spanje = Spain, Nederland = The Netherlands; Zweden = Sweden; Slovenie = Slovenia; Eurogebied = Eurozone; Slowakijke = Slowakia; Denemarken = Denmark; Ierland = Ireland.

Europe 2010 Budget Deficits

Today Eurostat announced the 2010 Greek Budget Deficit will be a lot higher than expected. The next graph shows the deficits as a percentage of gdp of the main Europe-countries with most recent data from Eurostat.

Source: Eurostat