Brussels demands more ambitious reforms from France

On 25 February 2015, the European Commission sent a strong signal to Member States to carry out structural reforms and to continue consolidating their public finances.

This included France, which was expected to present to the European Commission a new programme of structural reforms by April 2015.

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