Gentiloni, possible growth of the EU economy better than estimates

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 17 - The EU Commission "estimates a growth of" 4.2% this year and 4.4% next year "while the ECB has released" even more optimistic and advanced forecasts ", estimates with "possible negative evolutions (we think easing Covid) but which are also subject to possible evolutions in an even more positive sense". This was stated by the EU Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, in the message to the Assonime assembly. "The truth is that not we know fully what the behavior of compressed demand will be, of the very high level of accumulated savings, in what way this new post-pandemic phase ". And the Commissioner added that" The rebound of the European economy "is" certainly necessary ".after -6% in 2020 due to Covid, but that before the pandemic was not "a golden age" and therefore the goal of the Recovery plans is not "just the rebound" but to reach "an acceptable level in the divergence between the various European countries "and to make our growth lasting and sustainable" (ANSA).