There has been mixed news on the outlook for the eurozone’s biggest economies.

The Bank of France expects the French economy to contract by 0.1% between April and June this year, having predicted that there would be zero growth less than a month ago.

But the German central bank has increased its forecast for German growth this year from 0.6% to 1%.  German growth has kept the eurozone out of recession this year.

Earlier this week, the latest set of official figures confirmed that the eurozone economy as a while achieved zero growth in the first three months of 2012.

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