Latest update: 07/02/2011 

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Conflicts of interest: is France finally getting tough?

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Fallout over the "L'Oréal affair" has pushed French President Nicolas Sarkozy to introduce France's first ever law on conflicts of interest. But can it be effective in a country where the government and business sectors are deeply intertwined? And is the situation in France really worse than anywhere else?

Programme presented by Douglas Herbert

Prepared by Aurélien Aeberhard and Jeanette Coombs

With Vibeke Knoop-Rachline, Paris correspondent for Aftenposten, and Stefan Braendle, Paris correspondent for the Frankfurter Rundschau


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