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EBRD: Latvia's economic growth forecast more optimistic

BC, Riga, 23.09.2014.Print version
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has a more optimistic economic growth forecast for Latvia in 2014 than Latvian itself, Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) told members of the press today, cites LETA.

Philip Bennett and Laimdota Straujuma. Riga, 23.09.2014. Photo: flickr.com

After a meeting with the EBRD's vice-president Philip Bennett, Straujuma admitted that she was very happy to hear about the bank's optimistic economic growth forecast for Latvia.

 

Bennett informed that the EBRD has published a regional economic growth reports, where it states that Latvia's GDP will increase by 3.2% this year, and even more the next year.

 

Also during the meeting, the two sides discussed former Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, who has been nominated for the European Commission vice-president post, which, according to Bennett, shows Latvia's important role in Europe.

 






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