The price range may cut back French development by 0.5 factors in 2026 | EUROtoday

The price range promulgated on February 19, following limitless parliamentary debates closed by way of article 49.3 of the Constitution, ought to cut back 2026 development by 0.5 factors, estimate specialists from the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE), in a observe revealed Thursday February 26. And that is due to the impact of sure financial savings measures on family consumption and enterprise funding. But its affect stays 0.3 factors decrease than that of the preliminary finance invoice, which was estimated at 0.8 factors.

“This estimate may lead us to revise upwards our growth forecast for 2026, which is currently 1%”affirmed Mathieu Plane, deputy director of the evaluation and forecasting division of the OFCE. A stage kind of much like that talked about by the governor of the Bank of France, François Villeroy de Galhau, throughout a listening to on the National Assembly on February 18. “GDP [produit intérieur brut] should increase by at least 1%”he introduced, in opposition to 0.9% in 2025.

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