Luxembourg, 10/07/2000 (Agence Europe) - According to the last statistics from Eurostat, the EC statistical office, the GDP growth in volume terms in the Euro area (namely the 11 Member States taking part in the Euro) and in the EU 15 registered an increase of 2.3%, slightly down on the 2.7% increase recorded in 1998 in both areas. Among the components of internal demand, household final consumption expenditure slowed (+2.7% for the EU 15 and +2.5% for the Euro area against +3.0% for both in...