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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8215

22 May 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 32
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Commission prepares to sound alarm regarding fall in productiveness of work in EU

Brussels, 21/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - While economic growth is finding it hard to recover, the Commission is expected to announce another piece of bad news, namely that the productiveness of work within the EU has clearly fallen over the past few years compared to that in the United States. The report on which it is to give its stance notes that, within the Union, growth in labour productivity went from 2% between 1990 and 1995 to 1.3% between 1995 and 2001, whereas the United States saw...

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