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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8567

21 October 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/stability pact
Commission recommends France reduce its structural deficit by 1% of GDP in 2004 to return to balance in 2005

Brussels, 20/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday in Strasbourg, the European Commission is expected to adopt a new recommendation to give France formal notice that it should reduce its structural deficit (outside the uncertainties of the economic situation) by one point of GDP in 2004 and 0.5% in 2005 in order to guarantee that the public deficit will fall below the 3% GDP mark in 2005. The Commission could thus show proof of its understanding by accepting to postpone by one year the...

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