{"id":58835,"date":"2026-04-17T12:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58835"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:57:25","slug":"eu-faces-recession-risk-amid-middle-east-crisis-imf-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58835","title":{"rendered":"EU Faces Recession Risk Amid Middle East Crisis, IMF Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Alfred Kammer, has warned that the European Union could find itself on the brink of recession due to the ongoing Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the most severe scenario outlined in the World Economic Outlook report, which anticipates a sustained supply shock coupled with tightening financial conditions, the EU could find itself on the edge of recession with inflation levels reaching nearly 5%,&#8221; Kammer told dzwatch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No European country will be spared,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kammer further noted that the IMF expects the European Central Bank to raise its key interest rate by 50 basis points by the end of 2026, as the bloc braces for mounting economic pressure driven by regional instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Alfred Kammer, has warned that the European Union could find itself on the brink of recession due to the ongoing Middle East conflict. &#8220;In the most severe scenario outlined in the World Economic Outlook report, which anticipates a sustained supply shock coupled with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}