My mother, a (fierce) economist analyst, is for sure already aware of this news which appeared in the FT and certainly glad about it: Europe’s three largest economies are doing slightly better than expected.

So that’s good news for my Mom and Europe. Italian moms might not be so happy though as the 4th economy of the region is not doing that well (I am sure the Italians at London Business School are already doing their best to cheer their beloved moms – at least Manlio).

Interestingly, the success of the best performer, UK, comes at a price, as pointed out by Olivier (man, you will have to pay for all the referrals to your site in the past few days). This, by the way, fuels real estate prices in western and southern regions of France, but I’ll leave it to my mom to start her own blog and explain to us how this would impact the French growth figure. ;)