PARIS (AP) — France has revised down its growth forecasts and says it will miss its deficit target for another three years, confirmation that Europe’s second-largest economy will emerge only slowly from its stagnation.

Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Wednesday the budget deficit would be around 4.3 percent of GDP in 2015 and would not dip under the 3 percent target for European Union countries until 2017, a decade after the last time France hit the target.

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