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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11141

28 August 2014
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) france
No change of direction on French economic policy

Brussels, 27/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, told a French employers' (MEDEF) summer school on Wednesday 27 August that France would continue with its programme of structural reforms and reducing public debt.

Valls said there had to be a reduction in public deficits in Europe in general and France in particular and that France had been living beyond its means for 40 years. He reminded his audience that France had committed to saving €50 billion by 2017,...