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US-EU trade deal is best stimulus: De Gucht

Europe's top trade official said Saturday that a proposed trans-Atlantic trade pact would be the best way to boost the sagging economies of both the United States and European Union.

EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht talks during a press conference at the OECD headquarters in Paris on January 16, 2013. Europe's top trade official said Saturday that a proposed trans-Atlantic trade pact would be the best way to boost the sagging economies of both the United States and European Union.

"On both sides, we are still suffering the effects of the earthquake that hit our economies in 2008," EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht told an audience at Harvard University.

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