well, my guest is the eu economy commissioner, paolo gentiloni.entiloni, welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure. let me begin by some words written in the economist magazine very recently. "gloom," they said, "is now spreading across the continent." you're economy commissioner. the european economy is struggling.

well, my guest is the eu economy commissioner, paolo gentiloni. are internal divisions over economic policy, migration and the rise of populism undermining the credibility of the eu? commissioner paolo gentiloni, welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure. let me begin by some words written in the economist magazine very recently. "gloom," they said, "is now spreading across the continent." you're economy commissioner. the european economy is struggling. are you gloomy? well, the economy is struggling. i'm not gloomy. ijust propose to look to what we were expecting exactly one year ago. so, beginning of october 2022, we had a double—digit inflation. we were expecting recession. and indeed we were also concerned about energy supply blackouts because, of course, leaving the russian fossil fuels was not at all an easy story. so if we want to look to the optimistic side of the moon, i think we would say that, yes, we avoided recession. yes, we have now inflation at 4.3%, which is very far from the double—digit inflation one year ago. and the economy is still gr

well, my guest is the eu economy commissioner, paolo gentiloni.sm undermining the credibility of the eu? commissioner paolo gentiloni, welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure. let me begin by some words written in the economist magazine very recently. "gloom," they said, "is now spreading across the continent." you're economy commissioner. the european economy is struggling. are you gloomy? well, the economy is struggling. i'm not gloomy.

well, my guest is the eu economy commissioner, paolo gentiloni.the eu? commissioner paolo gentiloni, welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure. let me begin by some words written in the economist magazine very recently.

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