确实，意大利的平均GDP年增长率自1999年加入欧洲经济与货币联盟来一直维持在0.5%的低水平，远低于欧元区约1.5%的平均水平。
Indeed, Italy’s average annual GDP growth rate since joining Europe’s economic and monetary union in 1999 has been an anemic 0.5%, well below the eurozone average of nearly 1.5%.