Wim Duisenberg Year Quotations

So we do expect to maintain a growth rate in the euro area of at least 3 percent per year for the next two years.

In the past 25 years the average growth rate of euro area gross domestic product has been between 2 and 2-1/2 percent, ... We are now in for a period this year and next year when growth will be in excess, I would even say considerably in excess, of 3 percent a year.