Borrowing costs for France hit a 12-year high relative to Germany this week, and briefly rose above those of Greece for the first time ever on Thursday, as markets became roiled by politics in ...
Loredana Maria Federico, economist at UniCredit, said: “Investors remain concerned about political developments in France ... a no-confidence motion”. Greece's economy was hit hard by the ...
while France – judged by investors to be far less risky – benefitted from its status as a “core” eurozone nation and so paid a much lower interest rate. However, now Greece is deemed to be ...
Though temperatures have cooled in France and the UK, firefighters are still tackling blazes in Greece, Spain and Italy. The fires in France's badly hit south-west have started to be brought ...