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FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: New Socialist cabinet takes power in France
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 22:18:49 +0000
The members of French President François Hollande's new cabinet were announced on Wednesday, including Pierre Moscovici as finance minister and former premier Laurent Fabius (pictured) as the minister of foreign affairs.
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FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: World ponders Hollande's role on international stage
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:31:47 +0000
Moments after his first encounter with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, France’s new president, François Hollande, was already being sized up by the international press.
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FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: Ayrault takes over as new French prime minister
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:19:26 +0000
Jean-Marc Ayrault (right), the Socialist Party's parliamentary leader and a longtime ally of France's new president, officially took over from François Fillon (left) as prime minister during a swearing-in ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.
FRANCE: Socialist Party leader Aubry agrees not to serve in new government
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:10:01 +0000
Socialist Party chief Martine Aubry said Wednesday that she has "amicably" agreed not to serve on the cabinet of new President François Hollande. Aubry, who will remain party leader, lost to Hollande in the Socialist primary last year.
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FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: Hollande and Merkel vow to seek growth for Europe
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 05:56:06 +0000
Hours after being sworn in as France’s new head of state on Tuesday, François Hollande capped a marathon first day as French president with a trip to Berlin, where he and Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to work together to drag Europe out of crisis.
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Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:48:10 +0000
Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal château of Versailles.
FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: Hollande names longtime ally Ayrault as prime minister
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:11:46 +0000
Jean-Marc Ayrault, the leader of the Socialist Party in parliament and the mayor of Nantes, was named France's new prime minister on Tuesday by François Hollande. Ayrault is a longtime ally of the new president and a known moderate.
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FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: France ushers in new era with understated Hollande
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:13:38 +0000
François Hollande won France’s presidential election by vowing to break with predecessor’s Nicolas Sarkozy’s much criticized flashiness and plans for fiscal austerity. Inauguration day gives Hollande his first chance to deliver on those promises.
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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2012: Feminists cry foul as Cannes prepares for take-off
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 06:50:08 +0000
With the world’s most prestigious and glamorous cinema event about to get underway, France’s feminists are angry and festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux is on the defensive.
FRANCE - GERMANY: France, eurozone stagnate in first quarter
France News Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 09:28:08 +0000
Official figures show the eurozone was flat in the first quarter of the year, though it did manage to avoid dipping into a recession. France also stagnated, whereas Germany posted a surprising 0.5 % growth.
FRANCE: A diplomatic headache for unmarried Hollande?
France News Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 09:58:24 +0000
François Hollande is the first French president-elect to enter office unmarried and living with his partner. If he chooses to remain unmarried, this would demonstrate a fundamental change in the institution of the French presidency.
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FRANCE: EU forecast contradicts Hollande's growth targets
France News Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 19:34:17 +0000
French President-elect François Hollande said Friday he would stick to his optimistic deficit-reduction targets, despite the European Commission saying it only forecast 1.3 percent growth for France next year versus Hollande's aim of 1.7 percent.
FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: Curtain closes on ‘unpopular’ Sarkozy presidency
France News Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:04:48 +0000
France’s outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy came to power in May 2007 on a promise to change French politics, but his approval rating soon sank as the French grew to dislike his brash behaviour and extravagant style.
FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: France's new first lady steps into the spotlight
France News Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 09:57:30 +0000
Valérie Trierweiler, the partner of France's newly-elected president François Hollande, has vowed to continue her career as a TV presenter and journalist. Meet the former storyteller who is about to step into the role of France's first lady.
FRANCE: Sarkozy government resigns ahead of power handover
France News Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:52:36 +0000
The government of outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy stepped down on Thursday ahead of the inauguration of president-elect François Hollande on May 15. Hollande is due to reveal the new government line up once he enters office.
ON THE BLOGS: French presidential elections: drawing a blank
France News Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:32:31 +0000
Having now just about recovered from the excitement of covering the French elections, I would simply like to point out that France’s new president, François Hollande, did not actually win 50% of the vote.
FRENCH ECONOMY: French growth to stagnate for second consecutive quarter
France News Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:49:47 +0000
The French economy will post zero growth in the second quarter of 2012, its second consecutive quarter of stagnation, the Bank of France predicted on Thursday. The French economy grew by 1.7% in 2011, with growth slowing to 0.2% in the last quarter.
ON THE BLOGS: France's foreign flag orgy upsets nationalist party poopers
France News Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 18:10:55 +0000
A veritable army of flags – flags from other political parties, pro-peace flags, gay rights flags, even the national flags of other countries (!) – streamed into the Place de la Bastille on Sunday. An invasion? Paté went to investigate.
EUROPE: Euro finance chief briefs Hollande on Greek crisis
France News Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:45:35 +0000
France's president-elect Francois Hollande was brought up to speed on Greece's debt crisis by European finance chief Jean-Claude Juncker (pictured) on Thursday. Hollande is due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 15 to discuss the issue.
FRANCE: Hollande, Sarkozy put aside rivalry to mark VE day
France News Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:16:42 +0000
After a bitter campaign and a close presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande appeared together at a WWII commemoration in Paris on Tuesday. But the divisions within an increasingly polarised France may not be so easy to reconcile.
FRANCE: French Concordia survivors get €2m payout
France News Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 07:17:22 +0000
The owner of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy in January has paid more than $2 million to French survivors in a settlement, their lawyer said Tuesday, adding that the payment did not preclude further legal action.
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FRANCE-GERMANY: Hollande, Merkel in battle of wills on austerity
France News Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:31:40 +0000
French President-elect Francois Hollande's biggest challenge is to forge a close relationship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose hard-won EU fiscal pact to stabilise the euro zone he heavily criticised.
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FRANCE: Economic woes mean no honeymoon for Hollande
France News Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:57:09 +0000
A day after his triumph in the presidential election runoff François Hollande faces a lengthy to-do list as he prepares to take up his seat at the Elysée Palace. Top of the agenda is the unenviable task of trying to fix France’s ailing economy.
FRENCH ELECTIONS 2012: Hollande's victory: The tortoise who beat the hare
France News Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 14:36:21 +0000
If Nicolas Sarkozy is the hyperactive hare in the Aesop legend, France’s incoming president, François Hollande, is the proverbial tortoise. History has shown that slow and steady wins the race.
Bollywood star faces police probe over cricket row
France News Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:05:15 +0000
<p>Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan faced a police probe and a lifetime ban from Mumbai's main cricket stadium on Thursday following a furious late-night row with staff at the ground, officials said.</p><p>The actor, who co-owns the Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders, took a group of youngsters including his daughter Suhana onto the pitch of the Wankhede Stadium after a match on Wednesday night.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
Spain slides back into recession in first quarter
France News Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 07:45:13 +0000
<p>Spain's growth domestic product shrank by 0.3 percent in the first quarter after declining at the same rate in the final three months of 2011, confirming the country's return to recession, according to definitive official statistics published Thursday.</p><p>The figures confirm preliminary data issued in April by the National Statistics Institute, underscoring the precarious state of the economy in Spain, which is battling a record high 24.4 percent unemployment rate.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
Limbless Frenchman swims from PNG to Indonesia
France News Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 07:45:15 +0000
<p>A Frenchman who lost his limbs in an electrical accident swam from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia in strong winds and currents Thursday, finishing the first stretch in a mission to swim between five continents.</p><p>Philippe Croizon, 43, who swam the English Channel in 2010, left Papua New Guinea's fishing village of Wutung in the early morning to begin what he has billed as the Oceania-Asia stretch of his challenge.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
Four attackers die in assault on Afghan governor
France News Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 07:25:14 +0000
<p>Four attackers who stormed the governor's compound in Afghanistan's western Farah province Thursday were shot dead in a firefight, an official said.</p><p>"Four suicide attackers who stormed the governor's compound exchanged gunfire with the police. All four attackers were killed by the police. There were no casualties among police or civilians," the governor's spokesman Naqeebullah Farahi told AFP.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
Chile police arrest 70 protesting students
France News Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 07:05:11 +0000
<p>Chilean police arrested 70 protesting students late Wednesday as thousands took to the streets of the capital seeking an overhaul of what they call one of the world's priciest and most unfair education systems.</p><p>The students, joined by some parents and professors, thronged the Plaza Italia square, following up on more than 40 demonstrations last year against the system which is a legacy of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
Race to save the devil Down Under
France News Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 07:05:13 +0000
<p>It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.</p><p>Rat-like in appearance but with a marsupial pouch and carnivorous jaws that can crack bone, Tasmanian devils are an enigmatic Australian species.</p><p>They are reclusive creatures who sleep by day and forage by night, and are best known for the guttural cries which saw the early British settlers call them "devils" and inspired a Warner Bros. cartoon character.</p><div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
POLITICS: François Hollande: A 'normal' president?
France News Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:43:54 +0000
François Hollande is France's new leader; only the second Socialist president since 1958. But while Hollande has won the mother of all French political battles, he has not won the war. Both the Socialists and Conservatives are gearing up for crucial parliamentary elections in June. They will shape the Hollande presidency by deciding whether he will have a majority to implement his policies or not.
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POLITICS: French Presidential Runoff: Dear far-right voters...
France News Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:40:33 +0000
We are now 10 days away from the second round run-off of the French presidential election. As expected, the ballot will feature François Hollande versus Nicolas Sarkozy. But the wild card will be Marine Le Pen and her 6.4 million voters in the first round. Both candidates want her voters, but how far can they go? And will it work?
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POLITICS: Presidential Election: Sarkozy and Hollande in pole position
France News Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:11:24 +0000
There are now only a few days left before we will know the verdict of the first round of France's presidential election. So who is likely to win the most votes in this first round, and in the run-off two weeks later?
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POLITICS: Presidential Election: The final countdown
France News Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:51:03 +0000
There are now only ten days left before round one of the French presidential election. It's the final stretch in a gruelling campaign - the candidates are exhausted but still lining up rallies and interviews. It's time for the French to make up their minds, although the latest opinion polls show little change, with François Hollande still the favourite.
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POLITICS: Presidential Race: Can Hollande lose?
France News Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:38:43 +0000
In all likelihood, we already know the names of the two top candidates who will make it to the second round of France's presidential election: Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. And if the polls are right, Hollande will be France's next president, the first Socialist since Mitterrand was re-elected back in 1988. But there is still time for voters to change their minds and unanticipated events to take place. So is it a done deal or an open race?
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POLITICS: France Shootings: a different campaign?
France News Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:14:44 +0000
Will the Toulouse tragedy impact the presidential race, or will bread-and-butter issues prevail over terrorism and immigration? Will incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy benefit from his presidential gravitas to tilt the balance and pull off an upset, or will François Hollande hold on to his lead and win the race?
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