Rating agency Fitch has downgraded France’s sovereign credit rating, warning that president Emmanuel Macron’s reform agenda could stall following the battle to increase the country’s retirement age.
The agency moved the eurozone’s second-largest economy down one notch to AA- with a stable outlook late on Friday night over concerns that social unrest and political paralysis following the pensions fight will limit government efforts to improve public finances.
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