French PM Valls promises to pursue reforms to boost growth

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Saturday his government would press ahead with a program of reforms to boost fragile economic growth, and accused some business leaders of fuelling anxiety. Valls told his Socialist Party's congress in Poitiers that it remained his top priority to reduce unemployment, which is stuck above 10 percent and rose further in April to a record 3.54 million people. "There's this painful paradox of a return to growth without a drop in the number o