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تعرض الرئيس الفرنسي، إيمانويل ماكرون، للصفع على وجهه خلال زيارة رسمية إلى جنوب شرقي فرنسا. وفي مقطع فيديو تم تداوله على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، شوهد ماكرون وهو يسير إلى حاجز خلال رحلة إلى منطقة دروم خارج مدينة فالنسيا. وصفع رجل ماكرون على وجهه قبل أن يتحرك نحوه الضباط بسرعة. وفي غضون ذلك تم سحب...

France's top banks are bracing themselves for a likely credit rating downgrade from Moody's, sources close to the situation said, further complicating their efforts to assure investors they are riding out the tensions in funding markets.* more...

France's top AAA credit rating is likely to be downgraded and Germany could easily follow as the costs of bailing out weaker euro zone economies push up their own debt piles, says credit hedge fund firm Cairn Capital's chief investment strategist. more...

The leaders of France and Germany, under pressure to resolve the euro zone's debt crisis once and for all, have laid the ground for the next stage of European integration. more...

CNBC's Steve Liesman reveals that the Fed rates France and the UK's credit rating even lower than the US despite having retained their ratings by S&P. more...

French economic growth ground to a halt in the second quarter of 2011, raising pressure on President Nicolas Sarkozy to cut spending and abolish tax breaks ahead of elections as he tries to convince nervous financial markets that he will deliver on debt reduction targets. more...

"We think there's a big difference in the current situation in France than that which caused the downgrade in the U.S.," Mark Schofield, global head of interest rate strategy at Citi, told CNBC. "We don't think there's an immediate ratings risk, and I think any further ratings action will be...

President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered his finance and budget ministers to find new ways to prune the public deficit on Wednesday, as markets fretted over France's strained finances and banks following a U.S. debt downgrade. more...

The big question now is whether France will get smacked with a downgrade too, with CNBC's John Harwood. more...

Leaders of France and Germany reached a joint position late on Wednesday over a new bailout plan for Greece that will include participation of the banking sector. more...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe's reluctant paymaster, doused expectations of any comprehensive solution to Greece's debt crisis at an emergency euro zone summit on Thursday. more...