http://online.wsj.com What's News Europe en-us copyright © 2009 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:41:13 EDT http://online.wsj.com/img/wsj_sm_logo.gif http://online.wsj.com Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012/~3/qhMIWzCtuxg/SB124743850304429527.html For more than a decade, consumer spending has driven growth in France and buoyed the economy of EU nations. The danger for France and for Europe is that this turns into a longer-term trend. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bL1NfSxIJ3yDeHNRvRFgWIOEuP4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bL1NfSxIJ3yDeHNRvRFgWIOEuP4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bL1NfSxIJ3yDeHNRvRFgWIOEuP4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bL1NfSxIJ3yDeHNRvRFgWIOEuP4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?a=qhMIWzCtuxg:Uuspazc2o14:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?a=qhMIWzCtuxg:Uuspazc2o14:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?i=qhMIWzCtuxg:Uuspazc2o14:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?a=qhMIWzCtuxg:Uuspazc2o14:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?i=qhMIWzCtuxg:Uuspazc2o14:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?a=qhMIWzCtuxg:Uuspazc2o14:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7012/~4/qhMIWzCtuxg" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:32:41 EDT http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124743850304429527.html#mod=rss_europe_whats_news