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FRANKFURT, April 14 (Reuters) - The euro zone economy is
still standing on the "two crutches" of monetary and fiscal
stimulus and these cannot be taken away until it makes a full
recovery, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said
on Wednesday.
The comments, at a Reuters Newsmaker event, marked a rare
intervention by Lagarde in the policy debate and signaled a
pushback on suggestions, expressed by some euro zone central
bank governors last week, that the ECB start dialing back its
emergency bond purchases as soon as July.
"Think of a patient which is out of a deep crisis but still