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FRANCE: Breton anti-ecotax movement threatens more radical protests in spring
Regional campaigners who blocked French roads and destroyed tax collection portals last year have promised "more radical" protests if the government does not scrap its controversial ecotax and give in...
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FRANCE: Court rules against Sarkozy on diary seizure as phone-tapping row...
France's top court rejected a plea by former president Nicolas Sarkozy against the seizure of his diaries in a corruption case. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault ruled out a special session of...
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: French press review 12 March 2014
Islamist groups in the Sahel region, Venezuela after Chavez and the sexual assaults in the French army are the main topics in today's French newspapers. Standard
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FRANCE: French government could face reshuffle after local election setback
France's Socialists are hinting at a government reshuffle after a slap in the face from the electorate in local council elections. And the right-wing opposition is piling on the pressure on President...
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FRANCE - CHINA: France served China's Xi 'disgusting' state dinner, minister
The French presidential dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife was "disgusting", according to Trade Minister Nicole Bricq, caught talking to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault as the...
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FRANCE: Socialists win Paris as right makes gains across France
French President François Hollande is expected to call for a swift shake-up of his Socialist cabinet after more than a dozen towns and cities shifted from the left to the right in Sunday’s run-off...
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: French press review 1 April 2014
Two men share the six French front pages this morning . . . they are, of course, the president, François Hollande, and the new prime minister, Manuel Valls. Standard
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FRANCE: French Greens refuse to sit in Valls government
France's Green Party has pulled out of the Socialist-led government because the appointment of Manuel Valls as prime minister. But the move has split the party with some EELV MPs claiming it is a sign...
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FRANCE: French right hails Valls's pro-business turn, left revolt fizzles out
French opposition politicians hailed a turn to pro-business policies by new Prime Minister Manuel Valls after his speech to parliament on Tuesday. That did not stop them voting no in a vote of...
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EXPLAINER: FRANCE: Hollande redraws France’s regions – what will it mean?
President François Hollande is to redraw the administrative map of France. But, while no-one will admit to opposing the change, turf wars are raging and there are doubts about whether promised savings...
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FRANCE: New toll to replace controversial Ecotax in France
The controversial Ecotax on heavy goods vehicles, that caused major protests last autumn, has been dumped. Porticoes Ecotax/files. Reuters/Stéphane Mahé Standard
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FRANCE: Controversial Nantes airport construction to start next year, Valls
0 French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has declared that the controversial construction of an airport near the western city of Nantes will go ahead in 2015, despite legal orders to suspend the project...
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FRANCE: Top MP quits 'ultra-left' French Greens
0 One of the two leaders of the French ecologists' parliamentary group has quit the Green Party (EELV), accusing his former comrades of ultra-leftism and defending the alliance with President François...
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FRANCE: Hollande pleads for dialogue, as Air France conflict deepens
0 French President François Hollande has called for dialogue with unions, hours after five Air France employees were handed over to prosecutors on charges of "gang-related violence". French President...
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: French press review 12 February 2016
0 Gravitational waves exist and so do black holes. The new French foreign minister is the old French prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault. François Hollande's latest cabinet reshuffle leaves most...
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: French press review 13 February 2016
0 Right-wing critics say the newly-appointed government of cohesion has already come unstuck. French feminists are not happy with the duties attributed to Laurence Rossignol, the new minister for the...
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FRANCE -GERMANY: New French Foreign Minister Ayrault hails German 'courage'...
0 France's new Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault hailed Germany's "courage" in opening its borders to refugees, despite Paris's apparent opposition to Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposed...
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