This is no longer the time for the pessimistic slogans of the first half of the eighties. An objective analysis shows that the performance of European industry, marked by a very sharp recession at the beginning of the eighties (6% fall in investment, and an estimated 4.4 million jobs lost) has confounded the dire forecasts of that period, which were characterized by the terms "Euro-sclerosis" or "Euro-pessimism".
Denn laut Analyse hat die Leistung der europaeischen Industrie, die Anfang der achtziger Jahre durch eine starke Rezession gekennzeichnet war, -Investitionseinbussen um die 6%, 4,4 Millionen verlorene Arbeitsplaetze- , die duesteren Vorhersagen, die mit Begriffen wie "Eurosklerose" oder "Europessimismus" etikettiert waren, widerlegt.
