BRUSSELS: Eurozone activity picked up sharply in August to a 26-month high, as the battered economy climbed out of a damaging recession, a closely watched survey showed on Thursday.

Analysts said that the report confirmed that the 17-nation eurozone was finally turning the corner, after a downturn made worse by a debilitating debt crisis cost millions of jobs and tested the single currency bloc to the limit.

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