French economy could grow more than 2.5 pct in 2004: budget minister
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Budget Minister Dominique Bussereau said that French economic growth could exceed 2.5 percent this year, judging by the most recent macroeconomic figures from the state statistics office.
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Bulgaria's next year draft budget envisions economic growth of between 5% and 5.5%, 3.6% annual inflation and a fiscal deficit of 0.5% of the GDP, Finance Minister Milen Velchev said Wednesday.
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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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Turkey's economy is expected to grow at least some eight percent in 2004, beating the year-end target of five-percent, the country's deputy prime minister said.
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South Korea&#39;s economy may miss its 5 percent growth target for 2004 after expanding at its slowest pace in a year in the third quarter, the finance minister said.
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French consumer prices rose 0.3 percent in August and were up 2.4 percent from the same month last year, the national statistics institute INSEE reported, citing definitive figures.
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OECD members South Korea, Australia and New Zealand could all expect stronger economic growth in 2004 than 2003, the Paris-based organisation forecast in its semi-annual outlook.
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PARIS, Nov 30  - The French economy is set for growth in the next two years and unemployment should begin to fall once oil prices ease, the OECD said here Tuesday.
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Most forecasts run 5 to 6 percent above 2005, promising a lift for the US economy.
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New French Prime Minister Francois Fillon reiterated Tuesday a target of &quot;full employment&quot; by 2012 along with a two-year delay in meeting an EU limit on France&#39;s excessive public debt.
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World economic growth will be higher than previously thought at 5.1% in 2006 and 4.9% in 2007, the IMF predicts.
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French President Jacques Chirac strongly recommended Monday French small and medium-sized businesses to settle in China, hoping to double their quantity in three years.
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The euro-zone economy grew by 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2004, a touch slower than in the first three months of the year, according to initial estimates released Tuesday by the European Union.
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France could tax new computer, television  and mobile phone sales by 1 to 2 percent to help fund its  state-owned TV channels, Les Echos newspaper reported on  Thursday.
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The Polish government expects gross domestic product to grow by 5.4 or 5.5 percent year-on-year in 2004, the statistical office said Thursday.
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France will meet its European budget commitments in 2005, bringing its deficit under the 3 percent of the EU limit for the first time in four years, President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.
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The French government is looking to raise up to â¬5.8bn to help pay its debts by selling some of its France Telecom shares. As this will reduce its shareholding to just over 40 per cent, the move will allow