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New lockdown weighs on France’s recovery

Tighter restrictions for large parts of France for at least the next month are likely to reduce activity by only a further 1.5% or so. But the economy was already operating some 5% below its pre-virus level and the prospect of the most economically damaging measures being lifted completely is increasingly distant.

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