BRUSSELS: The EU on Thursday gave France two more years until 2017 to bring its budget deficit back into line, meaning the eurozone’s second biggest economy avoids an embarrassing fine for now.
Paris is not off the hook and must present a reform plan to Brussels by April to show how it intends to get its deficit back below the EU’s ceiling of 3.0 percent of economic output, the European Commission said.
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