France's public sector budget deficit widened last year but not quite as much as the government had expected, official data ...

Balancing France's budget for the 2026 calendar year will be a tough challenge due to needing to both cut the deficit and ...

However, the nation with the fifth-largest global economy also ranks seventh-highest for government debt, with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 101.36%. France's debt-to-GDP ratio has dropped steadily since ...

Morningstar DBRS put a negative outlook on its assessment of France’s creditworthiness, adding to warnings over the country’s ...

Fitch maintained its AA- credit score on France's sovereign debt, but kept a negative outlook. The French government on Friday, March 14, said that it would pursue efforts to cut debt after ratings ...

"This combination of higher costs and higher debt risks restricting capacity for future borrowing" the OECD said in a report ...

Fitch Ratings affirmed France’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ’AA-’ with a Negative Outlook. The rating reflects the country’s large and diversified economy, strong ...

Centrist Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government wants to reduce the ... defence spending in a way that neither added to France's debt burden nor undermined its welfare system, which is ...