Even after the downgrade the French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said no new cuts were necessary.
The French finance minister warned that the German ban could reduce liquidity in euro-zone bond markets.
On February 4th Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, published her hastily produced report into the affair.
The French Finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici, said Europeans should be "sensitive to the feelings of all Greek people".
The French Finance Minister, Francois Baroin, has talked today about the need for a "strong message" to come out of tomorrow's special summit.
Yet Pierre Moscovici, the French finance minister, last week surprised many by speaking of federalism and floating an intriguing idea: a Europe-wide unemployment-insurance fund.
All of this is building towards a summit on 28 June, which the French Finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici, said "will be a turning point in the history of Europe".
They believe that if the eurozone signs up to debt limits, to budget discipline through automatic sanctions, to budgetary convergence etc then that could pave the way for the ECB "to play its full role", as the French finance minister said at the weekend.
It was taken from HSBC bank and handed to the then French Finance Minister, Christine Lagarde.
The 56-year old chief executive is the former French finance minister who believes that only 20 out of every 200 emails received by his staff every day turn out to be important.
In his new film, he will play the disgraced former French finance minister and head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a man Depardieu has called "a little like all French people, a little arrogant".
The heady comments continued into the day, with French Finance Minister Francois Baroin declaring that "the euro has been saved".
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was thrust back into the headlines on Tuesday after French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the next five years.
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The scandal centres on a list of names, provided in 2010 to the Greek government by then French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who is now head of the IMF.
The probe relates to her time as French finance minister and her involvement in the payment of compensation to businessman Bernard Tapie.
The institution headed by former French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde lower its projection for global growth by 0.2 percentage points on Tuesday.
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Dr. Sylvain Charat is a graduate from the University of the Sorbonne, Paris, was chief of staff for a former French Minister of Finance in the French National Assembly, and is now a public affairs consultant, specializing in the welfare system.
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Dr. Sylvain Charat is a graduate from the University of the Sorbonne, Paris, was chief political adviser of a former French Minister of Finance in the French National Assembly, and is now a public affairs consultant, specializing in the welfare system.
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According to French Finance Minister Baroin the two will discuss how to expand the coordination of national policies and tightening of budget rules within the euro-area.
While the German economy is surging ahead, Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, recently cut the forecast for French GDP growth in 2011 from 2.5% to 2%.
France's antipathy for the deal may have mellowed into a typical Gallic shrug: On Thursday, French Finance Minister Thierry Breton said shareholders, not governments, would decide the outcome.
She later became the French Minister of Trade, and then Agriculture, before President Sarkozy selected her to be Finance Minister.
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French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici wrote to the European Commission at the weekend calling for a greater exchange of banking information across Europe, to fight tax evasion.
So sensitive is the matter that Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French prime minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, his finance minister, postponed a meeting on industrial policy this week with their German counterparts.
According to a Treasury source, there has been a "big row" on the European finance ministers committee, Ecofin, about this, with Mr Osborne and the Swedish finance minister pitched against their German and French counterparts.
First Row (L-R): Finance Minister of Germany Jorg Asmussen, Finance Minister of Italy Giulio Tremonti, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, French Finance Minister Christine Lagard, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and Luxembourg Prime Minister and chairman of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde officially announced her candidacy for the top seat at the IMF.
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French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici admitted on French radio that the government may need to rethink its growth forecast of 0.8% for 2013.
As finance minister in the late 1990s, he privatised swathes of French companies.
She lost the support of French President Nicholas Sarkozy in 2004, when he, then Finance Minister asked her to help bail out French energy transport group Alstrom in a merger.
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