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Economy Downturn: Can the Socialists impose austerity?

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The dreaded numbers are in and they are not good. France needs to find 11 million euros to reach its budget deficit target this year and a whopping 33 billions for next year. This at a time when growth is expected to screech to a halt and as the euro crisis is still hovering on the horizon.

POLITICS
By FRANCE 24

On the set :

  • Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, columnist, the Sunday Telegraph
  • Denis Demonpion, Senior writer, Le Nouvel Observateur Magazine
  • Mathieu Doiret, Ipsos Polling Institute
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