Economic slowdown a worry for ECB

BERLIN – Economic growth is slowing to a worrying degree across the eurozone and not only in the periphery, European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen said in an interview with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

“There are a number of indications that the economy is getting weaker and not only in the indebted southern European countries, but across the eurozone,” Liikanen was quoted as saying in an excerpt released on Saturday.

“Economic developments are causing us concern,” he said, adding that noone is immune to the effects of the debt crisis.

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