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FRANCE MUST FIND up to €10 billion to bring its public deficit back to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said today.
Moscovici told iTele television that the new French socialist-led government was looking for €7 billion to €10 billion, and added: “We are somewhere in the middle I imagine, but I am waiting to see the official figures.”
The French minister also said that a European Union summit to take place this week in Brussels had to see eurozone countries propose “structural solutions” to a crisis that is now in its third year.
Moscovici insisted this meeting of EU leaders “is not a banal summit”.
Markets and other countries around the world “expect Europeans to finally come up with structural solutions, and that is what they are looking for”.
Moscovici said the EU meeting on Thursday should “finally provide the euro with a political spine, and banking regulation”.
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