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Recession storms across Europe

AFP, Paris
Recession storms barrelled across Europe on Friday as data revealed the extent of the damage to Germany and France, but the IMF forecast that the world economy would turn the corner by year's end.
Germany registered its worst performance on record when its output was shown to have shrunk 3.8 percent in the first quarter, French gross domestic product contracted 1.2 percent over the same period and Italy fell back by 2.4 percent.
I he gloomy news from western Europe was reflected further east with Romania and Austria becoming the latest countries to officially slide into recession while Hungary and Slovakia also regis tered sharp falls in output.
However Europe's leading stock mar-
kets all rose, mirroring a trend in Asia and Wall Street and reflecting a growing belief the crisis had bottomed out.
"We still see a recovery in first semester of 2010 and the beginning of the turning point in October, November or December" this year, the International Monetary Fund's managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in Vienna.
Even in Japan, where there were signs of mounting deflationary pressures, the government detected signs that the worst was over.
The quarter-on-quarter contraction in Germany, the world's biggest exporter, was even sleeper than the 2.2 percent fall recorded in the final three months of 2008, the statistics office said.
The worse-than-expected German result - - economis ts had forecast a drop of 3.2 percent - was the worst since records
began in 1970.
"This very bad news, which was broadly expected, had demonstrated the large dependence of the German economy to foreign trade," said Natexis economist Costa Brunner. "But the good news is that theworstisbehindus."
France's statistics agency released figures showing that French gross domestic product shrank 1 2 percent in the first quarter of 2009 and had been contracting since the second quarter of last year, correcting previous figures and revealing that the country has been in underlying recession for 12 months.
French officials had already forecast output would fall by 2.5 percent this year but, following the release of new estimates, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said the drop would be closer to three percent.