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EU · Sep 19, 2026 · 4 min read
The French economy will grow 0.4 percent in 2026, 3 times less than its euro area neighbours and the United Kingdom, and…
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France · Sep 6, 2026 · 5 min read
France's national financial prosecutor had 65.2 million euros seized by the Belgian judiciary in the tax investigation into McKinsey & Company, an…
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EU · Aug 29, 2026 · 8 min read
Fitch Ratings affirmed France's long term sovereign credit rating at A+ with a Stable Outlook on 28 August 2026, even as it…
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France · Aug 28, 2026 · 6 min read
France's gross domestic product was unchanged in the second quarter of 2026, at 0.0 percent quarter on quarter growth, following a 0.2…
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France · Aug 27, 2026 · 3 min read
The premium investors demand to hold French ten-year government bonds over Germany's widened to around 88 basis points on August 27, 2026,…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 26, 2026 · 4 min read
The European benchmark natural gas price that INSEE tracks each month jumped 20.1 percent in July from June, while the benchmark price…
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France · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
France's unemployment rate on the International Labour Organization definition rose to 8.3 percent of the labour force in the second quarter of…
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France · Aug 7, 2026 · 3 min read
French manufacturing output fell 1.1 percent in June 2026 after a 1.0 percent fall in May, the national statistics institute reported on…
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France · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Private-sector activity across the euro area expanded at its fastest rate in eight months in July, with the services sector returning to…
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EU · Jul 30, 2026 · 4 min read
France returned to growth in the second quarter of 2026, but the composition of the rebound points to limited underlying domestic momentum.…
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EU · Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
French consumer price inflation slowed to 1.8 percent in June from 2.4 percent in May, the statistics office INSEE confirmed on Friday,…
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EU · Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
France's trade deficit widened to about 6.9 billion euros in May, from around 5.4 billion in April, as a drop in exports…
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The French economy will grow 0.4 percent in 2026, 3 times less than its euro area neighbours and the United Kingdom, and France is expected to be the only major advanced economy where activity slows significantly this year, according to the September outlook published by the national statistics institute on 10 September. Output fell 0.2…
France’s national financial prosecutor had 65.2 million euros seized by the Belgian judiciary in the tax investigation into McKinsey & Company, an amount equal to 96 percent of the tax loss as the French prosecutor estimates it. Pascal Prache, the national financial prosecutor, and Julien Moinil, the Brussels public prosecutor, announced the seizure in a…
Fitch Ratings affirmed France’s long term sovereign credit rating at A+ with a Stable Outlook on 28 August 2026, even as it forecast French government debt climbing to 122.7 percent of gross domestic product by 2028, up from 115.7 percent in 2025 and, in the agency’s own words, more than double the median for countries…
France’s gross domestic product was unchanged in the second quarter of 2026, at 0.0 percent quarter on quarter growth, following a 0.2 percent contraction in the first quarter, national statistics institute INSEE said in its detailed national accounts release on 28 August 2026. The stagnation came alongside a sharp 0.6 percent drop in household purchasing…
The premium investors demand to hold French ten-year government bonds over Germany’s widened to around 88 basis points on August 27, 2026, the highest level since late 2024, as Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s government heads into a 2027 budget negotiation with no parliamentary majority behind it, according to Reuters. 3 Months of Widening The spread…
The European benchmark natural gas price that INSEE tracks each month jumped 20.1 percent in July from June, while the benchmark price of oil in euros was virtually stable, up just 0.3 percent, according to the French statistics institute’s monthly reading of energy and imported raw material prices. Oil and gas prices moved in opposite…
France’s unemployment rate on the International Labour Organization definition rose to 8.3 percent of the labour force in the second quarter of 2026, up 0.2 percentage points on the quarter and 0.7 points on the year, the national statistics institute reported on 7 August. That is the highest rate since the third quarter of 2020….
French manufacturing output fell 1.1 percent in June 2026 after a 1.0 percent fall in May, the national statistics institute reported on 5 August. Total industrial output edged up 0.1 percent after a 0.1 percent decline, the difference between the two series explained almost entirely by energy. French output, June 2026 Change on May Previous…
Private-sector activity across the euro area expanded at its fastest rate in eight months in July, with the services sector returning to growth for the first time since March, according to S&P Global survey data published on 5 August 2026. The euro area composite output index rose to 52.0 from 50.0 in June, an eight-month…
France returned to growth in the second quarter of 2026, but the composition of the rebound points to limited underlying domestic momentum. Gross domestic product rose 0.2 percent from the first quarter, when it had contracted 0.1 percent, according to the first estimate published by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques…