French 2019 public deficit, debt lower than expected - INSEE
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's public deficit and debt were slightly lower last year than the government had expected, the INSEE official stats agency said on Wednesday, offering some relief among all the economic gloom around the coronavirus outbreak.INSEE said that the public sector budget deficit amounted to 3.0% of gross domestic product last year, up from 2.3% in 2018 and slightly better than the 3.1% the government had forecast.Meanwhile, gross public debt came in at 98.1% of GDP, unchanged..