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France Growth Forecast Cut as Severe Summer Weather Hits Agriculture and Infrastructure

French economic institutes and Finance Ministry analysts lowered the country’s annual GDP growth forecast by 0.1 percentage points, citing agricultural losses and infrastructure disruption caused by extreme summer weather.
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