Fitch warned France’s draft budget, which contains €43bn of fiscal adjustments
to cut the deficit and ease market concern over public finances, could heighten
sovereign bond-market volatility if it fails to win approval. Federico
Bariga-Salazar, Fitch’s head of Western Europe sovereign ratings, called Finance
Minister Roland Lescure’s plan to reduce the deficit to 5% of GDP by 2027
"substantive" and said its large scale means failure to implement it could
produce a pronounced shock.