{"id":419504,"date":"2025-09-12T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419504\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:06:11","slug":"frances-debt-woes-mount-as-fitch-downgrades-credit-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419504\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Debt Woes Mount as Fitch Downgrades Credit Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Fitch Ratings downgraded France, indicating the upheaval of repeated government collapse has locked the country into an enduring battle to contain a swelling debt burden. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The rating company cut its credit assessment to A+ from AA-, taking it a notch lower than the UK and on par with Belgium. Among the main arbiters of sovereign borrowers, Fitch\u2019s France rating is now the lowest at six levels above junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fitch Ratings downgraded France, indicating the upheaval of repeated government collapse has locked the country into an enduring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[12332,109114,2825,3647,33,34,2000,73822,299,36,3448,1234,2441,285,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-budget-deficit","9":"tag-credit-rating","10":"tag-debt","11":"tag-economics","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-euro-spot","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-gdp","19":"tag-government","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115193602716875687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}