Low-profile vacations for French ministers - FRANCE 24

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Low-profile vacations for French ministers

In this edition of The Week in France we look at how French ministers are taking low-key holidays because of the credit crisis, explain Nicolas Sarkozy's health problem, and wonders whether the Tour de France really was drug free.

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