The German budget deficit soared to 3.8%, the highest revenue shortfall among all the EU members at the time (also exceeding the 3% ceiling set by the EU's Stability Pact).
# The Stability and Growth Pact of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union
Warsaw Pact | Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | European Financial Stability Facility | Ship stability | Economic stability | Warsaw pact | structural stability | Static stability | Stability theory | stability theory | Stability radius | Stability Pact | Stability and Growth Pact | Pact of Umar | Pact | Nyquist stability criterion | Longitudinal static stability | Lib–Lab pact | Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan | Gentleman's Pact | Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) | Financial Stability Oversight Council | Financial Stability Institute | Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units | Cam-Pact |
Recent recipients of the prize have been human-rights activist and Czech President Václav Havel and Austrian Vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek who served as Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
Daniel Gros (2005): Reforming the Stability Pact, S. 14–17, in: Boonstra, Eijffinger, Gros, Hefeker (2005), Forum: The Stability and Growth Pact in Need of Reform, in: Intereconomics, 40.