standard and poors lowers france outlook to negative
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Standard and Poor's lowers France outlook to negative

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French Finance Minister Michel Sapin
Paris - AFP

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's kept its 'AA' rating for France on Friday but lowered its outlook from "stable" to "negative" on fears over the country's budget situation.
S&P estimated France's budget deficit will reach 4.1 percent of gross domestic product for the period of 2014-2017, up from its April forecast of 3.1 percent.
"In our view, the French government's budgetary position is deteriorating in light of France's constrained nominal and real economic growth prospects," Standard and Poor's said in a statement.
"We believe that, due to policy implementation risk related to the budgetary consolidation and structural reforms, a recovery of the French economy could prove elusive and that France's public finances might deteriorate beyond 2014, although this is not our base-case scenario," it added.
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin reacted by saying the country's debt was "one of the surest in the world".
"French debt is one of the surest and most liquid in the world, with debt levels very much contained," he said in a statement.
France's zero-level growth and record high unemployment have seen it dubbed the "sick man of Europe", and Sapin recently announced France would not meet EU borrowing limits for three more years.
EU rules state the public deficit must be below three percent of total economic output but Sapin said this would not happen until 2017. France had previously pledged to bring it back to that level by 2015.

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