LONDON (AFP) ??” Rising US protectionist sentiment is crimping economic growing though a euro-zone recovery is nevertheless risk to pick up speed.

LONDON (AFP) ??” Rising US protectionist sentiment is crimping economic growing though a euro-zone recovery is nevertheless risk to pick up speed, European Central Bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet said.

Asked what he study about recent steps taken on the United States, including plans to slap quotas onward some Chinese textiles, Trichet said: "We are against protectionism and we think protectionism is hampering growth"

His expositions which echo a call last week by dint of US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan for action to contrariwise "creeping protectionism", come as the threat of global trade wars loom because of US carburet of iron tariffs and other trade barriers.

Speaking in London at a Wall public way Journal/CNBC conference on Monday, Trichet said the ECB had "no particular worry" about inflation in the 12-nation euro girdle despite its slowness to fall below the