The ECB too gloomy? Not likely.

Suggestions that last week’s downgrades to the ECB’s economic projections have left it too gloomy look wide of the mark. Against a background of weak global activity, continued austerity and high and rising unemployment across large parts of the region, the risks to the ECB’s projections are still firmly on the downside.

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