Translation of "Verlangsamung des wirtschaftswachstums" in English

The slowdown of economic growth is having negative effects on labour markets.

In terms of economic performance, 2001 was a year marked by a significant slowdown.

Wagesetting procedures in the Community differ widely among member countries with regard to the degree of centralization.

A similar slowdown in growth had previously occurred in 1994.

Concluding, Mr Patten expressed the hope that the ensuing war would be completed quickly and with the minimum number of casualties, recognising that this affected "fellow countrymen".

Despite the slowdown in economic growth, the pace of the rise in employment will only slow down slightly.

In China, however, economic growth is expected to continue to slow down.

For the coming year, we expect economic growth to slow to 1.7%.

The main trade partners of the euro area are expected to be especially affected by the global activity slowdown .

Historically, a slowdown has tended to have a negative impact on the weakest regions of the EU in particular.

The reduction in economic growth due to the increase in oil price also has an impact on employment.

A failure to respond to or to aim at this target would put a brake on economic growth.

In the Mediterranean countries, where the pursuit of structural adjustment varied in intensity, economic growth in general eased back from the rate recorded in 1987.

The European Union must pay more attention to its youth - the youngest part of its human resources.

The economic outlook for 1999 is for a further deceleration of output growth to below 2 %.

The continuing fragile state of the Japanese economy once again resulted in a slowdown in economic growth.

However, it is possible that the effects of some positive measures may have been temporarily concealed by the slow-down in economic growth.

Moreover, given the slowdown in economic growth, further efforts are required to ensure, together with the social partners, more employment-friendly wage developments.

The current recession comes within an extended and gradual slowing down of the European growth trend of twenty years.

The fight against unemployment is our citizens' primary concern, a concern sharpened by the predicted slowing down of growth, and it calls for substantial measures.

Even a moderate slowing down in growth can have very negative consequences if it occurs in a country that has no room for manoeuvre.

In both the Western world and for developing countries calculations have been made which show that an increase in the price of oil - USD 5 per barrel or USD 10 per barrel - means that economic growth will suffer by 0.2% or 0.5% or whatever.

I refer first of all to the need to face the slow-down in economic growth by means of coordination of our economic and social policies, countering the economic cycle. This can be achieved through enhanced cooperation measures between Eurogroup members, resulting in a real government by agreement of the monetary union, able to question decisions by the European Central Bank with an authority at least as great as that shown a few weeks ago by the United States Federal Reserve.

Another reason to take these GATS negotiations in hand is naturally - or unfortunately, I should say - the continuing slowdown of economic growth.

An expansive tax policy and a restrictive monetary policy have produced an unfortunate ‘policy mix’ and slowed economic growth.

As the number of redundancy plans rises in Europe, as growth in the eurozone is slowing down - 1% instead of an estimated 1.8% - and as the jaws of the Stability and Growth Pact are closing, the Fifteen are continuing to liberalise railways, energy and air travel, deregulate social protection and make the job market more flexible.