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  "id": 4609777,
  "title": "France flirting with recession after new figures showed growth ground to a halt in the second quarter",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/france-flirting-with-recession-after-new-figures-showed-growth-ground",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-31T06:58:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Is Money",
    "slug": "this-is-money",
    "url": "https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-16087637/France-flirting-recession-new-figures-showed-growth-ground-halt-second-quarter.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Official figures revised down the performance of the economy - Europe's second biggest - which was previously estimated to have grown by 0.2%.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}