{"id":12086,"date":"2026-04-19T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/12086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:30:30","slug":"belgium-gets-cut-by-moodys-in-reproof-at-failure-to-cut-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/12086\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Gets Cut by Moody\u2019s in Reproof at Failure to Cut Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Belgium was lowered one step by Moody\u2019s, underscoring how the struggle to cut one of the biggest budget deficits in Europe is besmirching the country\u2019s status as a borrower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The rating is now assessed at A1, six notches above junk, with a stable outlook, the company said on Friday. That\u2019s an equivalent score to that of Fitch Ratings, which already lowered Belgium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-13\/belgium-s-credit-rating-cut-by-fitch-as-budget-concerns-linger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium was lowered one step by Moody\u2019s, underscoring how the struggle to cut one of the biggest budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,8143,8142,2914,7349,4415,69,8144,493,2820,84,8141],"class_list":{"0":"post-12086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-credit-rating","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-defense-spending","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-gdp","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-international-monetary-fund","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-moodys-corp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116430911950934662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}