Credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded the company's creditworthiness in May.
The comments from senior French figures followed a recent warning from US credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's that France could lose its triple-A credit rating over the eurozone crisis.
That is five percentage points higher than it was a few weeks ago, before the ratings agency Standard and Poor's cut them to "junk" status, as part of that mass downgrade of eurozone countries on 13 January.
Financial markets in Europe, the US and the Far East continue to fall after after the credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Greek debt to "junk" status and there are fears that the crisis could spread to other EU economies.
The OECD and IMF have both warned of the need for a credible plan to bring the budget into balance, and ratings agency Standard and Poor's has said it is putting Britain's AAA credit rating on review until such a plan emerges.
And the budget deficit has led the US ratings agency, Standard and Poors, to put the currency on review for a possible downgrade.
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The first is a report that Standard and Poors is threatening to downgrade the credit ratings of all countries in the eurozone: yes, that would include France and Germany as well.
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The Financial Stability Board, which co-ordinates the G20's financial policies, has asked standard-setters and regulators to find ways of yanking ratings out of rules on bank capital, fund holdings, margin agreements and so on.
The reasons given by Standard and Poor's for warning that it may downgrade the credit ratings of all but one of the eurozone's member governments - the exception being Greece, which already has an exceptionally low junk rating - are in a sense uncontroversial.
Shares in Moody's, the ratings agency, and McGraw-Hill, which owns rival agency Standard and Poor's, have both tumbled since February, as investors have grown less attracted by the business of rating securities based on subprime mortgages.
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