France's economy grew by 0.3 percent in the second quarter, surpassing the INSEE institute's initial forecast of 0.1 percent. The growth wa...

France's economy grew 0.2% in the July-September period, in line with market expectations, preliminary data from the INSEE official statist...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sent energy and food prices soaring worldwide, raising concerns that inflationary pressure could derail th...

In a further sign of difficulties, household spending, the driving force of France's economic activity, fell 8.3% in the first month of the...

Over the first nine months of 2020, trade between the EU and China totalled 425.5 billion euros ($514 billion), while trade between the EU ...

INSEE had already warned earlier this year that France's unemployment data for the first two quarters of 2020 was skewed because of the mid...

Nevertheless, economic output was "sharply lower than it had been before the crisis," with GDP down by 4.3 percent on a year-on-year basis,...

The contraction in the euro zone's second-largest economy was steeper than the 10.1% reported by Germany, where authorities kept a surge in...

The jobless rate fell to 7.8% from 8.1% in the fourth quarter, hitting its lowest since late 2008, INSEE's quarterly unemployment survey fo...

France saw its sharpest economic contraction since World War II in the first quarter as a lockdown from mid-March left shops shuttered and ...

The figure was below the meagre 0.1 per cent growth that Insee had forecast for eurozone's second-largest economy between January and March.

France emerged from recession in the second quarter of 2009 as its GDP rose by 0.3 per cent, the government's statistics office INSEE annou...

France is suffering its longest recession since 1949 as manufacturing and exports continue to be hit hard by the global economic slowdown, ...

France will fall into recession this year, with growth likely to shrink by at least 1.0 per cent, the government said today following a sha...

France will follow Germany, the US and Japan into recession by early next year as rising unemployment and the fallout of the financial cris...

France will fall into recession next year for the first time since 1993 and faces a steep rise in unemployment, the state statistics agency...

France's economy grew 0.1 per cent in the third quarter, just enough to permit the euro zone's second largest economy to avoid entering a r...