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How Eurozone Services Trade Is Reshaping Competitiveness in 2026
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a surprisingly powerful driver of Eurozone economic divergence: the cross-border trade in services. While goods trade gets the headlines — Germany's factory slump, Southern Europe's export stagnation — services trade has quietly become a competitive fault line. Ireland's surplus with the rest of the Eurozone reached 4.2 percent of its GDP last year, mostly in IT and consulting exports from multinationals. Meanwhile, Germany's services deficit has widened as it imports more digital services, while Southern Europe struggles to export…
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