Monday, 15 July 2013

Francois Hollande interviewed in The Elysee Gardens

French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that the economic recovery had started in France, which entered a recession earlier this year and has record-high unemployment.
“The economic recovery is here,” he said during a Bastille Day interview with top television channels, specifying that industrial production had picked up and there had been a slight upturn in consumption.
Hollande, whose job approval ratings are hovering around a dismal 30%, also promised to fight French “pessimism”, which he said was worse than that of other European counties and even “countries at war”.
(Taken from News 24)