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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9502

15 September 2007
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Eurogroup reiterates its Berlin commitment to cut public deficits - France must follow suit

Porto, 14/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in Portugal for an informal meeting, eurozone finance ministers were briefed by France on the main drift of its revised Stability Programme announced in July this year by President Nicolas Sarkozy (see Europe 9465). While they encourage the structural reforms announced in the French plan to breathe new life into growth in the flagging economy, they are very firm about the need for France to reduce its public deficits at the same time, in line with...

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