This week’s sharp sell-off in French government bonds suggests that investors have woken up to the severity of country’s public debt problem. Even if things calm down a bit in the coming weeks, which is not certain, it seems increasingly likely that a bigger fiscal crisis will be needed to prompt France’s politicians to agree on – and hopefully stick to – a sustained fiscal consolidation programme.
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