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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8054

23 September 2001
21 SEPTEMBER EUROGROUP MEETING IN LIEGE / (eu) eu/eurogroup
Finance Ministers acknowledge that European economy will not escape temporary slowdown

Liège, 22/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The EU's Economic and Finance Ministers acknowledged on Friday after the Eurogroup meeting in Liège that the attacks in the United States "will have an economic and financial impact in the short run" in the Union. In an optimistic statement to Heads of State, they assert that the "EU economy maintains solid fundamentals", particularly the "fall in inflation" which should allow consumption, the main engine of European growth, to be maintained. Moreover,...