{"id":87089,"date":"2025-10-18T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87089\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:29:10","slug":"frances-third-downgrade-in-a-year-is-a-call-to-step-up-lescure-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87089\/","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":87090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[910,138,37418,5399,1951,219,7797,21158,246,1221,12410,266,220,111,139,69,135],"class_list":["post-87089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-credit-rating","tag-debt","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-finance","tag-france","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}