02/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - In his presentation last Friday, of the German government's estimates for growth in 2005-06, the German minister for the economy, Wolfgang Clement implicitly called on the European Central Bank to lower its interest rates. He announced growth forecasts for 2005 were down from 1.6% to 1% and that therefore monetary policy had to take into account the fact that an important country like Germany has particularly low interest rates in a period of modest growth. The...