Brexit will impact eurozone recovery
AFP
AFP, FRANKFURT: The uncertainty sparked by the British vote to leave European Union will inevitably harm economic recovery in the euro area, European Central Bank executive board member Benoit Coeure said in a newspaper interview yesterday. The pick-up in the eurozone economy will inevitably suffer from the uncertainty shock that the British referendum has triggered, even if the impact is difficult to quantify at the moment, Coeure told the French daily Le Monde. The effect would be all the more damaging because the recovery in the euro area is already there. Its healthy and driven by domestic demand and by investment, even it was being kept down by high unemployment levels and debt, he argued. The victory of the Leave vote in Britain last week has already led to severe turbulence on the financial markets. Central banks are continuing to monitor developments and are ready to intervene if financial stability is jeopardised, by supplying liquidity if necessary, Coeure said.
