So to help ensure that the transatlantic economy can be an engine for the recovery of the world economy, the European Union and the U.S. have today decided to gather a high-level working group for jobs and growth.

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None of this would matter too much if the American economy, for so long the main engine of world growth, was clearly on the road to recovery.

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The economy in this area is going to be the engine for world economic growth for some time to come.

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