TALLINN (Reuters) - The European Union's top economic official on Saturday warned against funding national growth packages with new debt and urged governments to stick with structural reforms and cuts to fiscal deficits as the route out of the region's economic crisis. The election of new president in France on a platform calling for growth-oriented economic policies opposed to German lead calls for continued fiscal austerity has opened a debate on economic policy direction at both the national and EU level. ...

TALLINN (Reuters) - A Greek exit from the euro zone would damage confidence in the single currency bloc but would not necessarily be fatal, Irish central bank chief and European Central Bank policymaker Patrick Honohan said on Saturday. "Technically it can be managed but it would be a knock to confidence for the euro area as a whole and would add to the complexity," he told a conference in the Estonian capital. "It is not necessarily fatal, but it is not attractive. ...

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