💰 Fiscal & capital — is the money behind AI still flowing in Europe?

Latest observations

"Not yet measured" means missing, not zero. Machine-readable: /eu/api/fiscal_eu.json

Observation tables

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "General government gross debt (Maastricht), EU27, % of GDP (Eurostat gov_10q_ggdebt, qua…"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "Euro area yield curve - AAA-rated central government bonds, 10-year spot rate, % per ann…"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Question this table answers: what are the values and dates in each row of "General government net lending (+) / net borrowing (-), EU27, % of GDP, not seasonally a…"? (source or retrieval date on each row)

Candidates (not yet observed) — added to this chapter once verification completes

• Open EU funding calls matching an AI query (Funding & Tenders portal) — The portal search API is not documented for public re-use; not used until an official machine-readable feed is confirmed (same rule as "Have your say").
• AI-related EU budget lines (annual; irregular ledger) — Annual frequency does not meet the monthly-or-better rule; kept as a manual sourced ledger candidate.

Method, scope, and why this chapter is not judged

• Observing, not judging: no frozen criterion exists. Numbers, dates and sources only; do not infer thresholds.
• Scopes differ and are stated: the yield curve covers the euro area (ECB code U2, changing composition), not the EU27; the Eurostat series cover the EU27. Neither is merged with the other.
• Yield: ECB euro area yield curve, AAA-rated central government bonds, 10-year spot rate (series YC.B.U2.EUR.4F.G_N_A.SV_C_YM.SR_10Y), % per annum, as published; business days only (holidays are missing, not zero). Causal link: the long rate sets the funding cost and the discount rate of future AI revenue.
• Government debt and balance: Eurostat gov_10q_ggdebt (general government consolidated gross debt, % of GDP) and gov_10q_ggnfa (net lending/borrowing B9, % of GDP, not seasonally adjusted), EU27. Quarterly does not meet this site's monthly-or-better rule for a main daily series, so these run as quarterly confirmed operation: a point appears with each Eurostat release (about three months after the quarter) and keeps Eurostat's provisional flag until finalised. Causal link: public AI programmes are funded from the same budgets.
• Boundaries: the regulation chapter covers rules; the data-center chapter covers physical capacity; this chapter covers the price and quantity of capital only.
• What this chapter can say: the 10-year spot rate of the euro-area AAA central-government yield curve each business day (ECB), as published; EU27 general government gross debt and net lending/borrowing as a percent of GDP, quarter by quarter, as Eurostat releases them (about three months after the quarter); which scope each figure covers (euro area for the yield, EU27 for the Eurostat series) and when it was retrieved.
• What this chapter cannot say: whether a yield or a debt ratio is good or bad for AI, or where rates are heading (no criterion; nothing here is financial advice); how much the EU or its member states budget or spend on AI (annual budget lines and Funding & Tenders calls are candidates, not observed); conditions of any single member state, or general economic indicators (stocks, exchange rates and inflation are out of scope by design).
• Sources: ECB Data Portal, euro area yield curves (ECB must be cited as the source), Eurostat gov_10q_ggdebt, Eurostat gov_10q_ggnfa (re-use under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) — compiled by AI Lifeline. Terms verified per source; see the definition document (v1.0, frozen 2026-09-04) referenced in /api/world.json.