France Lags Euro-Area Economy Overhaul Effort, Study Says

France is lagging efforts by other euro-area countries to overhaul their economies, work that may check the region’s debt crisis, according to a study.

“France remains the only major European economy which is beset by serious health problems and has yet to do anything about it,” say the Hamburg-based Berenberg Bank and the Lisbon Council, a research institute in Brussels.