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Added on the 15/05/2023 11:16:05 - Copyright : Euronews EN
At a press conference in Matignon, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announces three new devices to contain energy prices for businesses and communities, for a total effort increased to "12 billion euros". SOUNDBITE
Farmers and road hauliers block the entrance to the Feyzin refinery, near the French city of Lyon, to protest against the rise in fuel prices. IMAGES
Images of the roundtable meeting of EU finance ministers who are meeting discuss energy prices and fiscal policy. IMAGES
The International Monetary Fund projects that energy prices "will be elevated" during the coming winter months but will then "come back down by the end of the first quarter next year and into the second quarter," IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath says in an interview with AFP. SOUNDBITE
China's economy will grow slower than initially expected this year owing to a stronger-than-anticipated "fiscal tightening," IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath says. SOUNDBITE
The eurozone's pandemic-induced recession is expected to be less severe than expected in 2020 at -7.3 percent, ECB chief Christine Lagarde says, but next year's rebound will be smaller than initially forecast. SOUNDBITE of Christine Lagarde