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Reforming to tackle structural challenges

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Updated: 22/02/2016 - 15:42 GMT+1

Severe belt-tightening may have helped Europe's public finances, but restoring growth will need more than savage structural reforms which, in one case of bust to boom, have not even been needed.

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