CE might be a countdown: 0.9 %in the beginning of the 12 months, then 0.7 %, and now, in line with European Commission forecasts, 0.6 %. Over the months and the twists and turns of the commerce battle launched by Donald Trump, the prospects for progress for France in 2025 go to sleep. And the economic system is dangerously near the sting of the cliff. However, the manager continues to show its serenity, with out realizing that the wind threatens to show.
The Choose France summit, with the announcement of 20 billion euros in overseas investments, enabled Emmanuel Macron to orchestrate, below the ORS of Versailles, the triumph of the attractiveness discovered of France. A number of days earlier, Eric Lombard, the Minister of the Economy, assured earlier than an viewers of enterprise leaders that “Our economy resists very, very good”regardless of a greater than heckled geopolitical context.
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Admittedly, a number of indicators are encouraging: at 0.1 % within the first quarter, progress got here out of the pinnacle of the water, after a small plunge of the identical magnitude ( – 0.1 %) on the finish of 2024. The labor market, whose degradation has been awaited since autumn 2024, shows stunning resistance: unemployment solely elevated by 0.1 % within the first quarter. Business creations, which had been stopped in the beginning of the 12 months, left from the entrance, whereas failures stabilize, at a excessive stage, it’s true.
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