Surprise decline in GDP in the third quarter, French economy flirts with recession
France's gross domestic product fell by 0.1% in the third quarter, INSEE announced on Friday, after stagnating in the second quarter and falling by 0.2% in the first. For the Minister of Economy, Roland Lescure, "the French economy is at a standstill" and "will go into the wall" without "the budgetary recovery that we have put in the budget".
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
