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Euro-zone GDP & Employment (Q1)

The upward revision to euro-zone GDP in Q1 was in large part down to the huge increase in Ireland, where the GDP data are notoriously unreliable. So the data aren’t as good as they look. And we still think that the euro-zone will grow more slowly than the consensus expects this year.

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