{"id":524937,"date":"2025-10-24T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524937\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:39:13","slug":"eu-businesses-say-things-are-getting-better-except-in-france-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524937\/","title":{"rendered":"EU businesses say things are getting better \u2026\u00a0except in France \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has been roiled by political infighting since snap elections were called last year, leading to parliamentary deadlock that has hampered efforts at financial reform and increased borrowing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, things were a little rosier. Across the bloc, services rose to 52.6 from 51.3, hitting a 14-month high, while manufacturing improved moderately, according to the eurozone PMI. The composite measure, a combination of both, rose to 52.2 from 51.2, the fifth increase in as many months.<\/p>\n<p>The picture was positive even for recent stragglers like Germany, which also experienced a boost led by services, although manufacturing remained contractionary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance is increasingly becoming an outlier in the PMI survey, with drawn-out political uncertainty relating to budget negotiations appearing to have a dampening effect on sentiment,\u201d said Hare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, he added that a recent business confidence survey by INSEE had suggested a more positive outlook for the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country has been roiled by political infighting since snap elections were called last year, leading to parliamentary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1194,6659,2000,299,5187,36,1824,5167,1199],"class_list":{"0":"post-524937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-manufacturing","16":"tag-services"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115429662026542218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524937","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=524937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}