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Eurozone finance chiefs meet amid brighter economy
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 07 - 05 - 2007


Eurozone finance chiefs were opening talks Monday
on the currency bloc's improving economic prospects but also amid
fears the stronger euro would dampen exports, thereby hurting
recovery, DPA reported.
The monthly meeting followed a new European Commission economic
survey which said eurozone economies were set to grow by 2.6 per cent
of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2007 and 2.5 per cent in 2008.
The commission - eurozone financial watchdog - said growth in the
13-nation currency bloc was due to solid investment and strong
private consumption.
Officials said that in addition to favourable domestic conditions,
Europe's economic upturn was due also to strong global growth.
They added that European economies had largely escaped the
negative impact of high oil prices and the slowdown of the US
economy.
"The European Union and the euro area remain on a brisk growth
path," said EU monetary affairs chief Joaquin Almunia.
He said the bloc was also creating more jobs and inflation was
under control.
The commission - acting as the EU's financial watchdog - said that
the bloc would create almost 9 million new jobs over the period 2006-
2008, of which 6 million in the euro area alone.
The economic recovery will continue to improve public finances,
with the general government deficit forecast to fall to around 1 per
cent of GDP in both the EU and the euro area, a level not seen in
many years.
Inflation is expected to remain under control, although officials
said they expected a slight pick-up of underlying inflation due to a
renewed increase in oil prices.
"We must help sustain the economic recovery by putting public
finances firmly on a sounder footing and by pursuing the reform
process," Almunia said.
This, in turn, would cut public debts and help increase the growth
potential before the problem of an ageing population kicked in, said
Almunia
The commission said European economies would continue to perform
"above potential" for several years but growth would fall marginally
from 3 per cent in 2006 to 2.9 per cent in 2007 in the EU and from
2.7 per cent to 2.6 per cent in the euro area.
It said the stronger outlook was partly explained by a better-
than-expected performance in 2006, which marked the strongest pace of
European economic expansion in six years.
"Domestic demand has proven more dynamic, with investment supported
by high corporate profitability, still-benign financing conditions, a
high rate of capacity utilisation and optimistic business sentiment,"
the commission said.


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