FRENCH EMPLOYERS CHIEF SEES HOPE FOR GROWTH The 1992 deadline for abolishing economic barriers within the European Community should help French economic growth and create jobs, president of the French employers' federation CNPF Francois Perigot said. "Having a market at our disposal which is as homogeneous and accessible as that of Europe is an incredible piece of luck," he told Le Figaro in an interview. He said that the majority of French business leaders were enthusiastic about the abolition of barriers and saw it as an opportunity rather than a danger for their companies. "It can permit us to return to a growth rate which is much better than we could achieve in isolation. We know that we have to reestablish growth at three pct a year to solve the enormous problems confronting us -- and I am referring mainly to unemployment," Perigot added. Finance Minister Edouard Balladur said yesterday that French growth would be just two pct this year, the same as last year and compared with the government's original 2.8 pct target.