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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9913

4 June 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
In first quarter of 2009, euro zone GDP falls 2.5% and EU 2.4%

Brussels, 03/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - In the first quarter of 2009, the GDP of the euro zone fell by 2.5% and that of the EU 27 by 2.4% compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, when the growth rates were -1.8% and -1.7% respectively. Compared to the first quarter of 2008, euro zone GDP saw a fall of 4.8% and that of the EU of 27 a fall of 4.5%, compared to drops of -1.7% and -1.6% respectively in the previous quarter. According to the initial estimates of Eurostat, household final...

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