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.
my previous analysis of the figures you linked to was over 40 odd years so smoothing out a number of growth periods and downturns.
When comparing to USA or any other developed economy I think the 2008 crash hit everyone, but some have come out of it stronger than others.