news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8198766.stm
If this is true, hopefully this will have a knock-on impact on our own economy, given that these are 2 major trading partners of ours.
"The data is very surprising. After four negative quarters France is coming out of the red," said French Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde.
I am in two minds about this, though. All this focus on growth as something necessary and healthy rather than something that has limits and if left unchecked could actually end up suffocating our planet.
questions, questions...