1. The second paragraph of Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78 empowered the Commission to fix the uniform interest rate at a lower level in the case of Member States which have interest costs below those which result from the application of the uniform interest rate for calculating financial costs.
2. Consolidated government interest expenditure is an important indicator for monitoring the budgetary situation in the Member States; interest expenditure is intrinsically linked to government debt ...
