The eurozone economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter of 2025, official data showed Thursday, buoyed by better-than-anticipated growth in France despite political turmoil in Europe’s second-biggest economy.

The EU’s data agency said the 20-country single currency area recorded growth of 0.2 percent over the July-September period from the previous quarter.

The figure was higher than the 0.1 percent forecast by analysts for Bloomberg and FactSet — but economists sounded a note of caution for the future.

“While we do expect a gradual acceleration of growth over the coming year, we remain cautious about marking this as the start of a growth spurt, given domestic and global uncertainty,” ING Bank’s Bert Colijn said in a note.

Thursday’s data also showed the eurozone economy gr

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