25/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - Outlining France's fiscal strategy from now until 2012, French finance minister Christine Lagarde has reaffirmed her commitment to bring French public finance back to a balanced budget by 2012. In an interview with French newspaper Les Echos on Friday 25 July 2008, she said that the absolute priority was to remove the public deficit by 2012 rather than to cut taxes because this could not be afforded by the public purse. At the end of May this year, the European...