French PM Valls vows to pursue reforms to boost growth

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said his government would press ahead with a program of reforms in an effort to boost the country's fragile economic growth and accused some business leaders of fueling anxiety. Valls told his Socialist Party's congress in Poitiers on Saturday that it remained his top priority to reduce unemployment, which remains above 10 percent and rose further in April to a fresh record of 3.54 million people. "There's this painful paradox of a return to