Listening 2 Financial climate across Europe Listen to a news report about financial climate across Europe and complete the following sentences with what you hear. 1 European factories continue to _________________. 2 French industrial production _________________ slightly during August. 3 Italy’s figures were more _________________: It actually rose in August by 0.1%. 4 In Switzerland, retail sales __________________ by 3.2% in the year to August. 5 In Britain, the number of people claiming ______________________ fell in September to its lowest level since the mid-1970s.