Latest update: 20/04/2009 

- financial crisis - French economy - recession - unemployment


French unemployment to exceed 10 percent in 2010
French unemployment to exceed 10 percent in 2010
After industrial output dropped off in France in early 2009, the Paris-based French Economic Observatory (OFCE) forecast that the country's economy would shrink by 2.3 percent this year and that unemployment would top 10 percent in 2010.