# Deficits: ten of the eleven EU states at 3% or more are under watch

- By: Vote Times Newsroom
- 2026-11-02T13:45:30.000Z
- Produced with artificial intelligence under human editorial supervision.

## Excerpt

Eurostat counted eleven EU states with a deficit of 3% or more in 2025, and ten are under the excessive deficit procedure. The figure already weighs on politics: a budget crisis in Belgium, 54 billion euros at stake in France, no exit for Italy this year and a newly installed government in Romania.

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