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  "title": "Regional Economic Outlook for Europe, October 2026",
  "publication": "Regional Economic Outlook",
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      "heading": "Growth and macroeconomic outlook",
      "content": "- Europe’s economy \"continues to grow, if at a slow pace, despite the energy shock.\"\n- \"Growth is fragile, so macroeconomic policies will have to tread carefully.\"\n- \"Monetary policy may have to do more, and expansionary fiscal policy should be avoided, to keep pressure off inflation.\"\n- \"However, even after energy supply eventually normalizes, Europe’s structural challenges will hold back medium-term growth.\"\n- \"At the heart of problem is weak productivity.\""
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      "heading": "Policy prescriptions: reforms for innovation, scale, and resilience",
      "content": "- \"Europe should choose higher and more robust growth through reforms for innovation, scale, and resilience.\"\n- \"Continuing the energy transition will help build resilience.\"\n- \"Advancing single market and national reforms remains the most effective way to raise productivity and lift the constraints on transformative innovation.\""
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      "heading": "Policy guidance for specific country groups",
      "content": "- \"As export competition intensifies, CESEE countries should sustain growth through investment in skills and by reforms that improve labor market reallocation, strengthen competition, and foster innovation.\"\n- \"EU candidate countries need ambitious reforms to seize the opportunity of accession.\""
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