ECB warns SARS more damaging than war

In an interview with Spanish newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa of the ECB said the negative impact of the Iraq war could be outweighed by the effect of the SARS virus.

Source: Il Sole 24 Ore

European Central Bank (ECB) executive member Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa has warned that the SARS illness could have more of a negative impact on world economic growth than the Iraq war.

In an interview in Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper, he said that geopolitical uncertainties would continue to weigh on the

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