French GDP fell by 0.1% in the third quarter, after stagnating in the second and falling by 0.2% in the first.
"The French economy is at a standstill," reacted the Minister of Economy and Finance, Roland Lescure. "France is not going into crisis," but "if we do not have the budgetary recovery that we have included in the budget, we will go into a wall," he warned.
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