{"id":223366,"date":"2025-10-18T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223366\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:59:08","slug":"frances-third-downgrade-in-a-year-is-a-call-to-step-up-lescure-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223366\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Third Downgrade in a Year Is a Call to Step Up, Lescure Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">France can\u2019t afford to ignore the third credit-rating reduction in less than a year, according to French Finance Minister Roland Lescure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cThree agencies have downgraded us and we can\u2019t ignore this cloud,\u201d he told Franceinfo on Saturday, speaking just hours after S&amp;P <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-17\/france-s-gets-debt-warning-as-s-p-downgrades-in-unscheduled-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">lowered his country\u2019s credit rating <\/a>in an unscheduled move. \u201cFundamentally it\u2019s an additional cloud to a weather forecast that was already pretty gray. It\u2019s a call for lucidity and responsibility,\u201d he said adding that this is \u201ca call to be serious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France can\u2019t afford to ignore the third credit-rating reduction in less than a year, according to French Finance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3244,45,49,48,17705,5427,548,46,3411,3412,133,637,3607,893,100,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-223366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-credit-rating","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-economics","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-emmanuel-macron","18":"tag-finance","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-gdp","21":"tag-government","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}