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French politician holding the economy and finance portfolio in the national government.
France's CERT-FR said attack campaigns against supermarket refrigeration controls are probably still ongoing after 700 of 10,000 sites were hit. Food worth millions of euros spoiled across several major retail chains.
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French finance minister Roland Lescure invited Britain to "come all the way" back to the EU after Andy Burnham called a second Brexit referendum possible. For UK-EU supply chains the nearer exposure is the bloc's planned Made in Europe procurement scheme, since any referendum waits on a future Labour manifesto.
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France's 10-year bond yield hit its highest level since July 2002 last week, just short of 5%. The Guardian reported that business investment is suffering from the uncertainty, and 82% of firms in a Medef survey are pessimistic about the next government's economic policy.
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Three tech leaders backed Dario Amodei's call for a coordinated AI slowdown in the week Anthropic and OpenAI released cheaper frontier models. Anthropic's head of UK and Ireland said it works only if countries enforce it together, and officials in France and Germany have already pushed back on the idea.
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The government halved its growth forecast for the year to 0.5% and INSEE went to 0.4%, while the 10-year at 4.448% is the highest since 2008 and Roland Lescure said the 5% deficit target is gone.
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