BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France, the euro zone's second-largest economy, will miss its budget deficit target this year but can reach the goal in 2014, the country's Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Monday.
Under pressure to show budgetary discipline to the rest of the euro zone and reassure financial markets, Moscovici pleaded for understanding from the European Commission, the EU executive that is policing countries' debts and deficits.
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