European economy 'will shrink 4%'

摘要

The European Commission has forecast that the EU economies will contract by 4% in 2009, more than twice what it predicted at the start of the year. The commission has said thai Europe's economy would not start recovering until the second half of next year. It also predicted unemployment in the 27-nation EU would reach 10.9% in 2010. The jobless figure would be 11.5% across the 16 countries of the eurozone.