France: 2023 growth is doing honorably despite three quarters at zero. France is also doing better than the euro zone in general, whose growth reached 0.5% over the past year, and than Germany which could experience two successive years of recession, after -0.3%.

for its part in 2023. Allianz Trade has a forecast of 0.7%, similar to that of many economists. The Banque de France rather anticipates 0.9%. “We can see the glass half empty,” commented Tuesday on France Inter the director general of the National Institute of Statistics, Jean-Luc Tavernier.