France is already in recession and is expected to slow growth of 0.3% in 2012 according to the OECD considers it essential to save 0.4% of additional GDP. 8 billion euros.

The OECD has drastically revised down its growth forecast Monday for France, which would be barely positive in 2012 after a "short" recession, a situation that "requires" a new anti-deficit to take the international commitment of Paris. Far from the 1% growth still officially expected by the French government next year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is no longer considering a meager increase of 0.3% of GDP in its latest economic forecast delivery biannual. Six months ago, it expected 2.1% but still on the deepening crisis in the euro area has been through it.

The recession that know France in the fourth quarter 2011 and first quarter 2012 would be "small scale", according to the organization. But faced with these projections, the poorest to date of an international institution, it urges Paris to a new fiscal tightening. "Given the slowdown in economic growth and the increasing burden of debt," the goal of returning the public deficit to 4.5% of GDP in 2012 "will require new measures of fiscal consolidation," says she said.

"We would suggest a further fiscal consolidation to achieve the desired objective," confirmed its chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan, during a press conference.