Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
I notice all the statements about the Eurozone growth ignore the financial crash. I suggest this might have had something to do with the downturns over the last 11 years. I'm not an economist, but maybe we should be comparing the EU to other global economies during this same period.
According to this article I linked to last week:

In 2000, a year after the euro was introduced, the US economy was only 13% larger than the eurozone; by 2016 it was 26% larger

https://www.theguardian.com/business...oseph-stiglitz

So that includes the years of financial crash for both the USA and the eurozone.