{"id":63651,"date":"2025-09-14T14:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63651\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:17:31","slug":"french-debt-costs-higher-than-italys-as-political-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63651\/","title":{"rendered":"French debt costs higher than Italy\u2019s as political crisis deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Markets sensitive to budget deficits and debt after PM Francois Bayrou resigns\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A French flag flutters on top of the National Assembly ahead of a confidence vote that the French prime minister Francois Bayrou lost. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0a3f55aa-3008-446d-8e25-aab751dd36a6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A French flag flutters on top of the National Assembly ahead of a confidence vote that the French prime minister Francois Bayrou lost. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A measure of France\u2019s borrowing costs exceeded Italy\u2019s for the first time in the eurozone\u2019s history, demonstrating how investor concerns over fiscal policy are redrawing the region\u2019s bond markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The shift yesterday was due to technical reasons, as the underlying bond used for benchmark French 10-year yields moved to a slighter later maturity than the Italian equivalent. But the trend towards convergence between the two nations\u2019 debt has been years in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets sensitive to budget deficits and debt after PM Francois Bayrou resigns A French flag flutters on top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,6586,2220,6585,19,17,371],"class_list":{"0":"post-63651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-giorgia-meloni","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-italy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}