Topic: France

France will fall into a brief recession and the government's 2012 growth target of 1.0 percent will be difficult to achieve, the official INSEE statistics agency warned Thursday.INSEE said it expects France to enter a mild recession in the final quarter of ...

Paris, Berlin seek action on company, financial tax

PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany want a new EU framework to speed up progress towards a common corporate tax base and a financial transaction tax as well as convergence of financial regulation and labor market policies, a Franco-German letter sent on ...

France vows powerful summit deal

PARIS (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Germany will not leave this week's EU summit until a "powerful" deal is reached to arrest the euro zone debt crisis, Paris said on Wednesday, as latest borrowing figures exposed the stressed state of ...

Moody's warns on French rating outlook

PARIS (Reuters) - Moody's warned France on Monday that a sustained rise in its debt yields coupled with weakening economic growth could harm its ratings outlook, fuelling concern the euro zone's second largest economy might lose its coveted AAA status.Worries about a ...

France and Germany clash over ECB crisis role

PARIS/ROME (Reuters) - France and Germany, Europe's two central powers, have stepped up their war of words over whether the European Central Bank should intervene more forcefully to halt the euro zone's debt crisis after modest bond purchases failed to calm markets.Facing ...

France, Germany clash over ECB role to stem crisis

PARIS/ROME (Reuters) - France and Germany, Europe's two central powers, clashed on Wednesday over whether the European Central Bank should intervene more forcefully to halt the euro zone's accelerating debt crisis after modest bond purchases failed to stop the rout.Facing rising borrowing ...
Berlin and Paris propped up the crippled eurozone with resilient growth figures Tuesday but France was buckling on tense bond markets as Italy and Greece raced to install new governments.In Rome, new Prime Minister Mario Monti won vital support from two key ...

Euro zone barely grows in Q3, downturn seen

BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - The euro zone economy grew just 0.2 percent in the third quarter as Germany and France posted solid growth but countries at the sharp end of the debt crisis fared much worse, and analysts expect bleaker times ahead across ...

Germany, France post solid growth, outlook bleaker

BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - The euro zone economy grew just 0.2 percent in the third quarter as Germany and France posted solid growth but countries at the sharp end of the debt crisis fared much worse, and analysts expect bleaker times ahead across ...

EU ready for decisive measures on debt crisis: French PM

TOKYO (Reuters) - The European Union is ready to adopt decisive measures to tackle its sovereign debt crisis, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Sunday."Member states, including France and Germany, and various EU institutions are ready to take decisive measures," Fillon told ...
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