But the answer to this question is widely known – it seems to me that there is a broad consensus concerning the conditions that enable each country to benefit from the advantages of the euro on a lasting basis. These conditions include accountability before, and solidarity towards, peers. These common values should be reflected in national and European institutions.
At the end of 2018, the average middleincome household had wealth of about $ while the average households in the top 10 percent of the income distribution had wealth of about $ million (figure 3). The average wealth of the top income decile is now 13 times higher than that of the middleincome group, while it was 7 times higher in 1989.