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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11262

26 February 2015
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) economy
France given two years to bring its deficit down

Brussels, 25/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 25 February, the European Commission decided to give France an extra two years, until 2017, to bring its nominal deficit below the threshold of 3% of GDP.

France was “the most complicated case discussed today”, said the Commissioner for the Euro, Valdis Dombrovskis. He said that Paris needs to step up its efforts “on both the fiscal and the reforms sides”. It is for this reason that the Commission has asked the French authorities...

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