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Official statistics showed that the inflation rate in France rose to new records at an accelerating pace, weakening the economic momentum.
And the Bloomberg agency quoted the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (ENSE) as saying that sharp increases in energy and food costs led to the growth of consumer prices to 6.5 percent in this June, compared to 5.8 percent during the month of May, amid the acceleration of French inflation to the highest level since the introduction of the single European currency. euro.
And Bloomberg indicated that the accelerating inflation increased pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron and the European Central Bank to take more measures to contain the shock to companies and families, especially after Macron lost the parliamentary majority in the elections.
Macron's government plans to present a revised budget for the current year next week, including an addition of 25 billion euros, to prolong the current measures and add new measures.
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