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Deflation dangers have not yet lifted

April’s rise in euro-zone CPI inflation to zero left the latest bout of falling prices shorter, at four months, than that seen back in 2009. But with fundamental forces still bearing down on inflation, it is too soon to declare that the dangers of deflation in the currency union have fully lifted.


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