We consider this a useful way forward in the absence of the more radical step of a transfer of competencies from the national to the European level.
4  BIS Review 70/1998  -3-  goods due to stagnant domestic final demand and the accumulation of inventories, in addition to the fall in import prices. Corporate service prices in fiscal 1997 narrowed their rate of decline following the ongoing downward trend and have recently moved around zero compared to the level of a year earlier.