Source: Spiegel International Germany and Egypt have long been at odds over the return of the famous bust of Nefertiti. Now documents found in archives show that the conflict was started by a Frenchman who had fought the Germans in World War I and considered them to be swindlers. He may have been […]
Rfi France: French growth will slow in 2012 to 1.9 per cent from 2.1 per cent this year, the report predicts. The French government’s 2012 forecast is 2.25 per cent growth. France is the eurozone’s second-biggest economy after Germany. “Progress is being made in fiscal consolidation but more efforts might […]
Rfi France. The markets are watching anxiously ahead of a meeting on Tuesday in Paris between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to discuss ways to try to resolve the eurozone debt crisis. For Details: http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20110816-sarkozy-and-merkel-meet-discuss-eurozone-debt-crisis
France24: AFP – Italy and France called Friday for emergency G7 talks and the EU said it is working “night and day” to ready new rescue funding as eurozone lending costs soared and stocks plunged on alarm over renewed global recession. As Europe scrambled to head off pressure on the single […]
france24: AFP – France on Monday said it had given Libyan rebels 259 million dollars (181 million euros) in frozen funds that used to belong to the regime of strongman leader Moamer Kadhafi. “The NTC (National Transitional Council) will now be able to use these funds for purchases of a […]
Source/Credit: Liberty Magazine: JULY / AUGUST 2011: Photo: Google-Images There is a new law in France forbidding women wearing full-face veils in public. The media has largely focused on the voices of protest from religious leaders and human rights advocates. Yet it’s important to realize that this law enjoys widespread popular support—not […]
Rfi. France: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has told RFI that its internal election on Saturday was an exercise in democracy. The previously banned group appointed three new senior figures for the organisation’s newly formed Freedom and Justice party. The Brotherhood says a new political “era” in Egypt should be inclusive and […]
France24: Despite a persistent negative stereotype about French hygiene practices – which at least one historian says has a ring of truth – a study has found that the French may actually be more fastidious than their European neighbours. If cleanliness is next to godliness, then the French – and […]
Source: TheLocal The leaders of Germany and France joined US President Barack Obama on Friday in pledging to consider new steps to punish Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his government over “indiscriminate” attacks on civilians. More here…
France 24: France was proclaimed “world champion of misery” by its own press this week after a report published in the US rated the French as most likely to suffer from clinical depression. The statistics are there, but is the reality? A World Health Organisation (WHO) report published in the […]
Rfi. France. France will stand by Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) for the duration of their conflict with Moamer Kadhafi, Defence Minister Gérard Longuet said in an interview published Sunday, despite confusion over the assassination of rebel military chief General Abdel Fatah Yunis and the Nato campaign’s failure to dislodge….. […]
Pravda, Russia. Information from the ground in Libya is very clear. Here is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth: no conjecture, no myths and no propaganda. The fresh news, crystalline pure. No hype, no lies. Ladies and gentlemen, the corporate media have been lying about Libya. […]
Pravda, Russia. Spanish and Greek bonds rose after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on a joint position to solve Greece’s debt crisis. German bunds pared their declines after Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said a “selective default” is a possibility for Greece. Details of the […]
Rfi. France. Police in the Australian state of New South Wales have been given the power to demand the removal of burqas and face covering in order to identify a suspected criminal. The move was approved on Monday, following a recent case of a Muslim woman who was acquitted after […]
Rfi: France. By Sarah Elzas Muslims in France are being given the chance to open bank accounts that comply with the rules of Islamic finance. Chabbi Bank – a Morrocan bank with branches in Europe – has started offering French customers sharia-compliant banking… Reference: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20110728-islamic-finance-arrives-france
France – Wednesday 27 July 2011 In April, French Interior Minister Claude Guéant announced he wanted to cut work-related immigration, claiming that the integration of migrants had failed in France. Now the list of jobs open to non-European immigrants has been halved. Foreign lift-repairers, surveyors and insurance salesmen are no longer welcome. […]
AMMAN (JT) – Jordan and France on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which France will provide the Kingdom with 600 million euros ($900 million) to finance development projects for the period 2011-2013. The memo, signed by Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Jafar Hassan and Director General […]
Within hours of being arrested by French police on minor drug-related charges, Walid Ferdi was dead. His cellmate, Badiaa El Massi, a Tunisian migrant arrested for living in France without a residency permit, lies in an artificial coma in a hospital bed in the town of Tours. Doctors say he […]
Rfi, France. Unesco, which is holding its annual meeting in Paris until 29 June, asked France to put a hold on the installation of wind turbines in the area around the monument, which is a major tourist attraction. The heritage site committee has asked for wind farm projects to be suspended […]
By RFI Dominique Strauss Kahn will not be in the running to become the Socialist Party candidate for president of France. An organiser of the Party’s primaries said the date for filing to be in the Socialist Party primary election was on Wednesday and the names are set. They do […]