Macron 'must show example' on deficit: EU commissioner

Paris

FRANCE may no longer be the eurozone's deficit dunce but President Emmanuel Macron must do more to improve the country's finances "if he wants to be the leader in Europe", the EU's economy commissioner said on Sunday.

France has long been in the EU's crosshairs over its deficit, which has repeatedly overshot an EU limit of 3 per cent of gross domestic product.