The eurozone’s recovery gained a little traction in the final quarter of 2013, with the currency bloc’s economy expanding by 0.3 per cent on the back of stronger-than-expected growth in the region’s two largest economies. Eurostat, the commission’s statistics bureau, on Friday published figures showing growth had edged up from 0.1 per cent in the third quarter by slightly more than the 0.2 per cent expected by economists. The figures will boost hopes that economic conditions in the bloc are steadily improving after the region became engulfed by a sovereign debt and banking crisis. The Eurostat figures were published hours after it emerged that Germany, the bloc’s economic powerhouse, had expanded 0.4 per cent, beating forecasts of 0.3 per cent growth. The German data, published by the Federal Statistics Office, were up from 0.3 per cent in the previous quarter and ahead of its preliminary estimate published last month […]