Staff Shortages, Supply Backups Batter EU Economic Growth

Staff Shortages, Supply Backups Batter EU Economic Growth
High tension wires and port cranes are silhouetted in the town of Doel, Belgium, on Sept. 19, 2019. Virginia Mayo/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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BRUSSELS—The European Union is seeing its economic emergence from the unprecedented COVID-19 slowdown hampered by coronavirus-induced staff shortages, supply bottlenecks, runaway energy prices, and subsequent inflation surges.

In its winter 2022 forecast, the European Commission said Thursday that even though the economy has rebounded from stunning losses at the height of the pandemic crisis, key challenges remain on the path to a sense of normalcy.