ECONOMY : ECONOMIC CLIMATE MOST SOMBRE SINCE 1985.

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The European Commission's services hope that the implementation of the European economic recovery plan will prevent large job losses and an excessive fall in growth. A spokesperson said, on 8 January, that the national plans already announced in the framework of this plan already represented 0.91% of the EU's GDP - "a good result" in comparison to the 1.2% objective set out in the European plan approved in December, all the more so since additional measures will be announced on 12 January in...