21/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The French economics minister Francis Mer admitted on Friday that growth this year would not hit the 2.5% target the government had set itself. Speaking on the France 2 television channel, Mer said that events had changed over the last six months and it would no longer be possible to meet the target. He said the government would be publishing new public deficit forecasts in the next fortnight, hoping they would not exceed 3% (but commenting that there was not...