https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Hopes of small economic growth in France were hit on Friday when the latest GDP figures were announced. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160729/france-reports-disappointing-zero-growth Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:46:36 +0200 france-reports-disappointing-zero-growth France's economy returned to growth in the third quarter of this year, expanding by 0.3 percent, after having earlier stalled, the national statistics agency said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151113/stagnant-france-finally-sees-return-to-growth-gdp-third-quarter-2015 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:20:52 +0100 stagnant-france-finally-sees-return-to-growth-gdp-third-quarter-2015 France's finance minister on Monday confirmed the country would push ahead with massive tax relief for the nation’s less well off, saying the money was available, despite the doom and gloom around the economy. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150831/frances-poor-to-get-billions-in-income-tax-relief Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:03:48 +0200 frances-poor-to-get-billions-in-income-tax-relief There was some bad news for France on the economic front on Friday, when new figures revealed that the struggling economy had stagnated in the second quarter of 2015, in contrast to their German neighbours. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150814/french-economic-growth-stalls Fri, 14 Aug 2015 10:22:26 +0200 french-economic-growth-stalls Jean Tirole, the French economist who won this year's Nobel Economics Prize, became the latest to urge his country to carry out reforms to kick-start the economy. It came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel chided France for not doing enough to reduce its deficit. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141208/nobel-economist-tells-france-to-follow-germany Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:29:00 +0100 nobel-economist-tells-france-to-follow-germany The clouds over Europe appeared to lift slightly in the third quarter as its two biggest economies both narrowly escaped a new recession, official data showed on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141114/france-narrowly-escapes-recession Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:11:00 +0100 france-narrowly-escapes-recession Although France didn't persuade Germany to invest €50 billion in the eurozone's flagging economy Paris and Berlin did agree to draw up an action plan for exactly what was needed to boost growth. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141021/france-and-germany-agree-growth Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:08:51 +0200 france-and-germany-agree-growth The depressing figures for the French economy just keep on coming. On Tuesday it was revealed that the country's public debt had passed the symbolic two trillion mark. In real numbers that's €2,000,000,000,000. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140930/frances-public-debt-passes-two-trillion-mark Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:14:00 +0200 frances-public-debt-passes-two-trillion-mark The French government recognised on Thursday that it's economy had "broken down" after new data showed there had been zero growth so far this year. In more bad news for the eurozone new figures also revealed the German economy has contracted. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140814/france-economy-growth-eurozone Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:33:00 +0200 france-economy-growth-eurozone The new French finance minister vowed this week that his country would stick to the tight deficit reduction targets set by Brussels and rubbished speculation that Paris were hoping to persuade the EU to give them more time. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140416/france-deficit-europe-debt-brussels Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:40:00 +0200 france-deficit-europe-debt-brussels Following a humiliating defeat in local elections and a cabinet shakeup, President François Hollande is expected to concentrate on expanding France's moribund economy rather than meet EU deficit reduction targets. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140401/hollande-to-focus-on-growth-not-deficit-control-2 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:20:00 +0200 hollande-to-focus-on-growth-not-deficit-control-2 France's return to a modest economic growth in 2013, was confirmed by optimistic forecasts released by the OECD on Tuesday. The Paris based organisation says France is heading for a 0.3 percent growth this year. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130903/france-set-for-surprise-return-to-gdp-growth Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:56:00 +0200 france-set-for-surprise-return-to-gdp-growth On Wednesday France's Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici was the bearer of welcome news when he announced that France would in 2014 experience its first year of "real" economic growth for years in 2014, predicting it to land at 0.8 percent. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130731/france-to-see-first-real-growth-in-years-in-2014 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:11:00 +0200 france-to-see-first-real-growth-in-years-in-2014 The IMF has warned France to expect a heavier contraction of its GDP than previously estimated, but added on a positive note that household savings could buoy French demand until growth resumes by the end of 2013. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130604/imf-predicts-french-gdp-will-shrink Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:36:00 +0200 imf-predicts-french-gdp-will-shrink The IMF forecast on Tuesday that France, the eurozone's second-largest economy, will fall into recession this year with the economy contracting by 0.1 percent. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130416/france-to-fall-into-recession-this-year-imf Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:16:01 +0200 france-to-fall-into-recession-this-year-imf The French government became involved in an embarrassing internal row on Tuesday after the Finance Ministry was forced to deny an earlier statement Foreign Minister that they will reduce its forecast for growth of the economy this year from 0.8 percent. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130219/france-forced-to-reduce-economic-growth-target Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:01:00 +0100 france-forced-to-reduce-economic-growth-target A top member of the European Central Bank Friday called on France to stick to its deficit-reduction targets after Paris indicated it might miss its goal due to worse-than-expected growth figures. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130215/ecb-demands-france-stick-to-defecit-targets Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:26:00 +0100 ecb-demands-france-stick-to-defecit-targets French President Francois Hollande said France's growth forecast for 2013 could be reviewed in coming days as the country's accounting court warned government targets for the year had "little chance" of being achieved. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130212/france-has-little-chance-of-hitting-growth-forecast Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:02:00 +0100 france-has-little-chance-of-hitting-growth-forecast The French national statistics agency INSEE said Thursday it expects the country's economy to contract by 0.2 percent in the final quarter of this year and the unemployment rate to jump above 10 percent. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121221/french-economy-to-contract-in-final-quarter Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:22:23 +0100 french-economy-to-contract-in-final-quarter The French economy is heading for a slight recession at the end of the year, the Bank of France forecast on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121109/france-heading-for-recession-bank Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:56:44 +0100 france-heading-for-recession-bank