While Germany has resolved its debt problem insofar as it no longer violates the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact and can be expected to have a balanced budget in 2008, the forecasts for France imply deficits of 2.6% and 2.3% of GDP for this year and 2008. If the boom in the world economy falters, France will again violate the Stability and Growth Pact, as it did in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
公共债务方面模式也是如此。德国解决了它的债务问题，从而不再违反欧盟稳定和增长公约，预计可以在2008年实现预算平衡，而对法国的预测则为今年会有相当于GDP2.6％的赤字，2008年为2.3％。如果世界经济繁荣终结，法国将会像2002年、2003年以及2004年那样再一次违反稳定和增长公约。