Financial Times: French unrest affecting consumer confidence

The Financial Times is attributing the fall in French consumer sentiment on the protests raging over the government's proposed youth employment law.

Analysts are blaming the anti-CPE movement as INSEE, the national statistics bureau, reports that its gauge of consumer confidence fell from minus 24 in February to minus 26 in March...

Financial Times 31.03.2006

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