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France

France : the economic decline or the enrichment ?

The reports and the comments are plentiful after France poor economic results. The followed trend for twenty years is worrying due to a continuous and significant downgrade of the main economic indicators. After two decades shown by growth, an inflation reduction, the necessary industrial restructurings along with some mastery regarding public finances (the public debt in 2002 reached only 60% of the GDP) which had allowed France to come in the euro zone, the situation has not stopped to deteriorate: trade deficit and record public indebtedness, low growth and unemployment staying at a high level and a worrying de-industrialization. All ...

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French economy : the poor results

INSEE has just published its first estimation of the French growth during the 3rd quarter (0.4%), which would allow to hope, for the full year, a figure slightly above 1%. But the satisfaction expressed by the commentators is not justified. Once removed the positive but temporary impact of the Olympic Games, household consumption has stagnated. The enterprises investment and the new homes construction are significantly reducing. The slightly positive contribution of the foreign trade comes only from a reduction of the energy balance. France has even a trade deficit for agricultural goods and the situation is not improving ...

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Inflation : the new challenges

The publication by INSEE of the inflation in France in September has surprised. Prices have fallen by 1,2% from August (0.6% after correction of seasonal bias) and year-on-year they have only increased by 1.1%. United Kingdom also had a reduction year-on-year (1.7%) as the eurozone (1.7%). The prices increase in the United States remained a little under 2% when in China, to the opposite, it fell back year-on-year to 0.4%. In Europe, everything happened as if after the sharp increases in 2022 and 2023 with a 10% peak, an equivalent level was recovered to ...

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