PARIS: Crisis-hit France is "sick", the country's new economy minister said on Wednesday, urging immediate reforms to tackle sky-high unemployment and an economy that has failed to grow in six months.
"France is sick. It's not well. We have to describe the situation as it is," Emmanuel Macron told French radio.
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