Today the ECB published its newsletter, which is no longer monthly and went on to be released every 6 weeks, which describes in detail the Euro Zone Economy. The European Commission (EC) predicted growth for all EU countries in 2015 for the first time since 2007. The EC raised its forecast from 1.1% to 1.3% of GDP for the year 2015, and from 1 , 7% to 1.9% in 2016. the commission said the growth was 0.8% last year. The unemployment rate is expected to fall from 11.3% to 11.2%. In regard to inflation, the EC predicted that consumer prices come down 0.1% this year, after an increase of 0.4% in 2014, but predicted to grow 1.3% in 2016.