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Will Europe inevitably lag behind?

Hopes that Europe might weather the global economic storm relatively well have been shattered as the region has followed the US into an extremely severe recession. Sadly, a reliance on exports will almost certainly mean that the euro-zone does lag behind, at least in the initial stages of the global recovery. But there are reasons to think that it might fare a little better in the medium term.

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