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This articles talks about how every EU country's economic growth production and crucial is to the Euro-zone for enhancing the continent as a whole. However, Germany which is of course, one of the EU's leading country in economic growth is now declining constantly. This is will reduce general aggregate supply in EU.

I think this article is really interesting as this is a current economic problem that could affect me as i live in the uk which is also part of the EU. A danger is that if the german economy slows then this could be damaging for the UK's net exports. We currently Germany biggest trade partner. The likelihood would be that consumer spending would lessen as consumer confidence and expectations of the german economy would decrease, consequently this could mean that Germany will import less from the UK and this potentially having consequences for the UK's AD and economy.

This article talks about EU members taking a strong stance about Greece and it's debt, saying that if Greece doesn't accept the EU Aid Program, Greece will be "over". This comes as a toughening against Greece's debt situation, as the EU wants a strong economy and is being dragged down by Greece.

With China possibly given the status of a "market economy" the effectiveness of tariffs against chinese imports will be strongly diminished. This could result in EU economies being exposed to "dumping" policies by the chinese in order to weaken the competitive ability of domestic producers.

This article talks about how Russia has finally eased and clarified that the conflict in Ukraine won't affect oil supplies to the EU, which would completely destroy the Aggregate supply and skyrocket EU gas prices.

Mr Tsipras's defiant parliamentary debut as prime minister - underlining a string of spending commitments such as raising the minimum wage in breach of Greece's two €240bn (£178bn) bailouts -will have had Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tearing her hair out in Berlin. The politics in Greece for the last five years was inconsistent and very harsh towards people who were oftentimes protesting and boycotting. The result of this politics has a strong impact on the country's economy, which is very fragile and is still deteriorating by harsh policies, taxation which affect not only Greece but the international market as well.