Bruno Le Maire, the French Minister of Finance, told Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, and Valdis Dombrovskis, the Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday 19 December that France's structural adjustment in 2019 would be 0% of GDP.
For Mr Le Maire, it was a question of defending the measures announced on Monday 10 December by Emmanuel Macron, the French President, in an attempt to respond to the...