Last month, poor first-quarter growth figures showed the French economy entering triple-dip recession, while the EU postponed until 2015 the 3% of GDP fiscal deficit target, at the same time increasing pressure on the government of François Hollande to enact structural reforms of in pensions and the labour and product markets.
The impact of all this on French government debt was virtually zero. For months, French government bonds have rallied as investors outside the eurozone cast off doubts about the country’s fundamentals and pile into its paper.
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