Sentence examples for french budget from inspiring English sources

PARIS — The French budget deficit is rising.

In contrast, the French budget deficit has widened to 7.5 percent of G.D.P.

FRENCH BUDGET CUT DOWN Success Reported Despite Stout Opposition From War, Navy and Air Departments.

He will take just one year longer to balance the French budget.

The drop in taxes is expected to cost the French budget about $3.3 billion.

The current French budget was written with optimistic growth forecasts of 2 percent for 2011 and 2.25 percent for 2012.

The German and French budgets are both 8 to 10 times bigger than that of the EU.

On paper, the French culture budget has even slightly increased this year, to €2.7bn (£2.3bn) – 1% of the French state's entire budget.

It made good financial sense at a time when the French defence budget was being squeezed.

Never mind that 40 percent of the French food budget is now spent on prepared dishes and frozen products, according to a 2012 report commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Thanks to recent increases, the French defence budget now runs to 1.7% of GDP, according to France's defence ministry, but that is still well below Britain's 2.2%.