While the economic impacts of the first wave are beginning to be felt in most countries, a second wave of coronavirus strikes Europe.
It is in this unfortunate context that France has known in the spring the strongest decline in its activity since at least 1949, with a dive of the gross domestic product (GDP) of 13.8% in the second quarter.
“Since he has been measuring French economic activity in a quarterly way, the National Institute of Statistics had never recorded such collapse,” reports in this sense the news channel France 24.
“This first estimate remains fragile and it is likely to be revised, more than usual, in the next publications of the quarterly accounts,” warns the institute in its press release.
