The employee puts an item on the window screen on a delicacy at Piazza Campo di Fiori in Rome, Italy, on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.
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In December, the prognosis of the central bank To make the EU EURO ZONE economy grow by 1.1% in 2025.saying that he expects GDP growth to be “somewhat weaken in the midst of significant uncertainty in the short term.”
“Index -based indicators, such as an activity index, and a business and consumer confidence indicators, remain hidden from the European Commission,” said the Central Bank in December.
The ECB expected that the economy would increase by 0.2% in the fourth quarter 2024 as one -time factors that support the growth of last summer, such as the Olympic Games in Paris, faded in the midst of the continuation of “obeying trust, great uncertainty and geopolitical tension.” The central bank provides that GDP growth will be 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025.
Central Bank policies will keep in mind inflationial pressures in the region, and the EURO Zone Consumer Price Index has accelerated the consumer price index in recent months, hit 2.4% in December.
The fundamental inflation, which emphasizes unstable food and energy prices, has not changed 2.7%for the fourth month in a row. The central bank predicts the inflation rate in the block that will reach 2.1%this year.
