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French growth suffered a downward revision on Friday, just days before the government puts together its final budget ahead of presidential elections next year.

 France`s government unveiled Friday plans to lower taxes on households and companies, as the ruling Socialists lined up their budget for the 2017 election year.

Brexit fallout continues as major EU members want Britain to speed up leaving process

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is determined not to join a long list of politicians who have conceded defeat to protesters, he told the Journal Du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, as the government prepares to dig in its heels on labour reform.

The G7 on Saturday pledged to clamp down on financial support for terrorist networks, with a plan to step up intelligence-sharing, freeze assets and tighten reporting rules on international transfers.

France will put Panama back on its list of countries that do not cooperate in efforts to track down tax dodgers, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said today in the wake of the Panama Papers revelations.

France's Minister for Finance and Public Accounts Michel Sapin Monday said French companies have been investing billions in India and he expects that they will invest over USD 10 billion in the next five years.

The Paris Club is an informal group of public creditors created in 1956. Its members include officials from 20 industrialised countries who meet to try to resolve payment problems of debtor nations.

France has cancelled $68.7 million (64.8 million euros) in debt owed by Mali, a west African former colony where French forces have helped fight off Islamist militants.

Crisis-hit France admitted it would suffer from slow growth and high budget deficits for at least the next three years as it unveiled Wednesday a gloomy annual budget likely to drew ire from the EU.

France`s finance minister on Tuesday hinted that the country`s much-vaunted aim to cut 21 billion euros ($28 billion) in public spending next year could be in jeopardy due to low inflation.