France hurtles toward financial disaster, debt to hit 125 percent, governments collapsing, citizens warned of brutal austerity

France is on the edge and everyone is pretending it is not. Debt is rising faster than the government can admit, deficits are stuck above 5 percent of GDP through 2027, and the debt-to-GDP ratio is on track to hit 121 percent by that same year https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-france-to-a-outlook-stable-12-09-2025 . That number does not just warn of …

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