{"id":235152,"date":"2025-10-19T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:43:09","slug":"frances-third-downgrade-in-a-year-is-a-call-to-step-up-lescure-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/235152\/","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":235153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4592,28,58008,3055,110,101,1070,5607,939,594,1556,2420,112,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-235152","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-credit-rating","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-emmanuel-macron","16":"tag-finance","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-gdp","19":"tag-government","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}