22/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Commission does not have any new assessment regarding the possibility that the budgetary deficit in France could exceed 3% this year, the spokesperson for Commissioner Almunia told the press on Wednesday. The French minister for the economy and finance, Thierry Breton, had announced on Tuesday during a press conference downward review of the growth forecasts for 2005, considering that a 2% hypothesis was an upper rather than a lower limit. “There has been...