Brussels, 25/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Commission published its spring economic forecasts (period 2001-2002), which announce growth of 2.8% of GDP for the euro-zone and for the EU as a whole in 2001. This growth, which continues to be one of the largest recorded in recent years, would go hand in hand with a fall in the rate of unemployment and controlled inflation, which hints at the limited effect that the US downturn would have on the European economy. In a press...