INSEE said the 2023 public accounts showed a fiscal shortfall of 5.5% of economic output last year, up from 4.8% in 2022 and significantly more than the government's target for 4.9%.
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has been eager in recent weeks to show France's remains committed to cutting the deficit to less than an EU limit of 3% by 2027 with rating agencies due to update their ratings in April and May.
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