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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8992

16 July 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Growth up 0.5% in first quarter of 2005

Brussels, 15/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - Eurostat's revised estimations for the first quarter of 2005 point to growth in GDP in the euro zone and the EU of 25 compared to the previous quarter. Taken annually, the growth rate was 1.4% and 1.6% respectively, compared to 1.5% and 1.9% respectively in the last quarter of 2004. Of the 23 Member States for which data are available, Greece recorded the highest growth rate (2.4%) in the first quarter of 2005, followed by Latvia (2%) and Estonia...

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