France must reform to work more or risk growth trap: government adviser
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France must learn to work harder and rein in its &quot;excessive&quot; public sector if it is not to sink into irreversible economic decline, a committee of experts led by former IMF chief Michel Camdessus warned the government.
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Francois Fillon spells out plans to revamp France's institutions of government, in his first policy address as PM.
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French ministers are preparing to receive individual performance reviews to find out whether they are getting the job done in the reformist government of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Robert Zoellick, slated to  replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, must  move swiftly to restore confidence in the poverty-fighting  institution, France&#39;s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that France's budget deficit would be reined in next year to below three percent of output, in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro to be published Friday.
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French junior Budget Minister Dominique Bussereau said that the government's forecast of 2.5-percent growth in 2005 still looked &quot;reasonable&quot; but acknowledged that it might have to be changed if the price of oil remained high.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have won a mandate for change after his party swept first-round parliamentary elections, and he is picking up speed in his plans to overhaul France's welfare state. But rivals say he should watch out.
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Some policy makers caution that the central bankâs main tool to keep the economy from sliding into recession may be ill-suited to the problem it faces.
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French workers are urged to protest in numbers against the government's plans to reform the 35-hour week.
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The French economy hit a rough patch in the third quarter, throwing the government's full-year growth target into question amid signs of an economic slowdown in the 12-nation eurozone.
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France and Africa must remould their relationship and change their ways, French minister Nicolas Sarkozy says.
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French growth improves at the end of 2004, new figures show, but not by enough to fulfil government hopes.
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The establishment of departments for economic intelligence and monitoring has been going ahead at France' biggest ministries.
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France's finance minister announced new measures Tuesday designed to boost confidence, stimulate growth and tackle what he called the "scandalously high" jobless rate.
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Tight spending controls will allow France to cut its budget deficit by about euro10 billion (US$12 billion) in 2005 and conform with EU rules, the French prime minister said in an interview.
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France&#039;s Industry Minister on Tuesday  expressed &quot;enormous caution&quot; over any future tie-up between  carmakers Renault  and General Motors .
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced into a cabinet rethink on Monday after losing a senior minister in a parliamentary election that gave him an unexpectedly small majority, but his reforms remained on track.