March 26, 2019
PARIS (Reuters) – The French economy grew slightly more than previously thought last year, helping to trim the deficit, Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday.
“Last year, we had forecast 1.5 percent growth like all of the (economic) institutes … We should be around 1.6 percent,” Darmanin said on RTL radio.
Shortly afterwards, the INSEE official statistics agency confirmed the 2018 growth figure of 1.6 percent. Previously it had said the government cut the public deficit to a 12-year low last year of 2.5 percent of gross domestic product.
(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
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