France 24. REUTERS – Norwegian-born Eva Joly, a formidable former judge who came to France as an au pair in the 1960’s, will run for French president in 2012 as the Greens’ candidate after winning her party’s nomination on Tuesday. Results of a ballot of 23,000 Greens showed the 67-year-old, who […]
France 24. Speaking in Paris on Wednesday at her first campaign rally, Green presidential candidate Eva Joly argued that national holiday status should be accorded to the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr and the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Currently six of the 12 national holidays in France are Catholic […]
France24. Eva Joly, the Green candidate in France’s forthcoming presidential election, sought to breathe The Norwegian-born former magistrate, whose campaign has been dogged by rumours of sedition within her party’s ranks, picked the impoverished former industrial hub near the border with Belgium to present a green platform with a strong […]
Russian TV: France is outraged with new cultural standards hammered out by French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, who insists that all civilizations “are not of equal value” – and that […]
By RFI A number of politicians on Tuesday formally requested France’s Constitutional Council to examine the planned law which would punish anyone who denies that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide. Two separate groups, including Senators and members of the French lower house of parliament, say they […]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces an uphill battle in his re-election fight this Spring. We discussed some of the long odds against him here. So to jumpstart his re-election, Sarkozy has announced brand new economic reforms that are sure to be controversial. From The Telegraph: Under new “competitiveness accords”, employers will now be able […]
Jewish businessman Robert Harush who grew up in Ashkelon spends fortune on renovation of large Muslim house of worship in Montereau, in effort to promote co-existence. He grew up in […]
France: 24 REUTERS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to reveal a swathe of new economic reforms on Sunday to create more jobs, improve business competitiveness and convince voters he is the right leader to revive France’s sputtering economy. Three months before presidential elections in which Sarkozy has yet to […]
France 24. Two days after US President Barack Obama put tax reform at the heart of his re-election campaign, France’s Socialist nominee François Hollande pledged to raise levies on banks, big firms, and the rich to plough the country out of debt. Hollande’s plans include scrapping a host of tax […]
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, has said France would not give in to “panic” and pull its troops out of Afghanistan this year after four of its soldiers were […]
Source: NY Times Op Ed. By JONATHAN LAURENCE, Associate professor, Boston College. TWO weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was roughed up and then died while in police custody. The uproar underscored the hostility of […]
PARIS: France urged Turkey not to overreact on Tuesday after the French parliament adopted a bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. Speaking on Canal+ television Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who was personally against the move, said […]
Preparing the biggest homecoming yet of its kind, authorities in New Zealand on Monday received 20 ancestral heads of Maori ethnic people once held in several French museums as a […]
Mourad Dhina, opposant algérien, un des membres fondateurs du Mouvement Rachad (Droiture), a été interpellé à Orly lundi dernier suite, semble-t-il, à une ancienne demande des autorités algériennes. Il s’apprêtait à rejoindre son domicile en Suisse – où il s’est réfugié en 1995 – après avoir participé, à Paris, à […]
Rfi France. The Senate’s Laws Commission rejected the bill on grounds that it was inadmissible, with 23 votes for, nine against and eight abstentions. On Monday, a plenary session will vote on the commission’s decision, however most of the senators likely to oppose the bill are expected to abstain. The […]
Larry Elliott, economics editor The Guardian, Wednesday 18 January 2012 “An escalation of the crisis would spare no one,” said Andrew Burns, manager of global macroeconomics at the World bank and the report’s author. “Developed and developing country growth rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09. The importance of […]
BBC: A Sikh man in France has won the backing of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in his fight over religious headgear. It said France was violating Sikhs’ religious […]
Pravda Ru: France is satisfied with its contract with Russia for the supply of helicopter carriers of Mistral type and is ready to continue the cooperation in military-technical sphere. In particular, the French party promises this year to issue a contract to build the third and fourth helicopter. “After selling […]
Rfi France. Europe was plunged into crisis again and the French government was on the defensive after the Standard & Poor’s agency stripped France and Austria of their […]
By Tony Cross Rfi: Friday 13 January 2012 French police charged with investigating wrongdoing by their colleagues have been accused of bending the law themselves – charged with framing colleagues who were judged too close to the opposition Socialists. Left-wing MPs were gunning for Interior Minister Claude Guéant on Wednesday and top Paris […]