2026-05-23
Start here: how to use Eurospending
A two-minute tour of the site — the map, country pages, the comparison tool, the euro timeline, and the data downloads.
#guide
5 articles
2026-05-23
A plain-English glossary of economic terms
Percent of GDP, basis points, real vs nominal, year-on-year, HICP, the Maastricht criteria — the jargon you meet on this site, defined simply.
2026-05-23
What counts as healthy? Key benchmarks and thresholds
The reference lines that turn a raw number into a judgement — the 3% deficit and 60% debt limits, the ECB's 2% inflation target, and more.
2026-05-23
Eurozone vs EU: what's the difference?
Why some figures cover 27 countries and others only the 20 that share the euro — and why it matters for reading monetary data.
2026-05-23
Where our data comes from and how we check it
Only official sources — Eurostat, the ECB and the IMF — pulled by deterministic code, validated before publication, never estimated by us.