Strasbourg, 09/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - Overall Acceding countries and other candidate countries have, on average, sustained solid growth despite the worsened international economic climate. Economic growth has only slightly slowed down during 2002. Due to strong domestic demand, most candidate countries showed resilience and the extent of the slowdown remained limited. These are the main conclusions in the "spring economic forecasts" for these countries that the European Commission adopted...