The eurozone economy will grow next year at its fastest rate since the single currency was launched more than two decades ago, according to a Financial Times poll of economists, who said the biggest risk was if vaccines failed to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
As European countries start to vaccinate people against Covid-19, 33 economists polled by the FT this month predicted that eurozone gross domestic product would rise by an average of 4.3 per cent next year, rebounding from this year’s record postwar recession.
That is more optimistic than the European Central Bank’s 3.9 per cent forecast published this month, but below the 5.2 per cent the IMF predicted in October.