BBCNEWS HARDtalk July 3, 2024
Gloom, they said, is now spreading across the continent. Youre economy commissioner. The European Economy is struggling. Are you gloomy . Well, the economy is struggling. Im not gloomy. Ijust propose to look to what we were expecting exactly one year ago. So, beginning of october 2022, we had a double digit inflation. We were expecting recession. And indeed we were also concerned about Energy Supply blackouts because, of course, leaving the russian fossil fuels was not at all an easy story. So if we want to look to the optimistic side of the moon, i think we would say that, yes, we avoided rec...