PARIS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Thursday major destocking by companies and a crisis in the autombile sector had combined to shunt French GDP sharply lower in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Earlier, protesting INSEE statisticians released the GDP data a day ahead of schedule, showing that the economy contracted 1.2 percent in the last three months of 2008.
Lagarde said she deplored the decision to release the figures. She added that given ...
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