France's public debt topped the symbolic level of 2.0 trillion euros for the first time, according to quarterly data published by the national statistics agency INSEE on Tuesday, reports FRANCE 24.
The total national debt amounted to 2.023 trillion euros ($2.57 trillion) in the second quarter of the year, INSEE said, which represents 95.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
European Union rules limit debt to 60 percent of GDP.
In the first quarter of the year, the debt stood at 1.995 trillion euros, or 94.0 percent of GDP, INSEE said.
France is already on a collision course with the EU over its budget deficit, which is supposed to be kept under three percent of GDP.
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