France is flirting with recession after new figures showed growth ground to a halt in the second quarter of this year.
Official figures revised down the performance of the economy – Europe’s second biggest – which was previously estimated to have grown by 0.2 per cent.
Finance minister Roland Lescure said it was ‘the first impact of the horrible summer that we had’.
The downgrade was attributed to weak agricultural production – hit hard by summer heatwaves and droughts.
Sluggish: France is flirting with recession after new figures showed growth ground to a halt in the second quarter
