14/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - Deficit reduction targets - Commission already expected France to miss its 3% target. In its autumn economic forecasts, published in November 2012, the European Commission said that the French public deficit would rise to 3.5% in 2013, above the Maastricht cut-off point of 3% of GDP, said a spokesman for Euro Commissioner Olli Rehn on Thursday 14 February. On Wednesday, the French prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, said that France would not meet its target for...