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Angela Merkel's refusal to allow the ECB to act as lender of last resort makes French front pages today - as do the kidnapping of two French citizens in Mali, a debate over whether foreigners should be allowed to vote in local elections, and the mysterious disappearance of the French far left.

IN THE PAPERS
By Elena CASAS

La Tribune headlines with "the unlikely menage à trois" of Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Mario Monti - while les Echos isn't happy with the truce they've reached over the European Central Bank.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2011/11/24/01003-20111124ARTFIG00741-l-inexorable-expansion-d-al-qaida-au-maghreb-islamique.php ">Le Figaro leads with the shadow of al Qaeda behind the kidnapping of two French citizens in Mali.

And La Croix reports on the debate over voting rights for foreigners - while Liberation asks what happened to France's once powerful far left.

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Iran: "The Regime's Bloody Deadlock"
29/12/2009 - IN THE PAPERS

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Voting

by Anonyme - 25/11/2011 - 12:45

Never knew Foriegners were allowed to vote in any country in the west.If you are a Naturalised subject ,you have a Right.Quite simple really,if a Foriegner and you break any laws ,you should be stripped of your adopted nationality.PS Send them to England.we adopt all wafes and strays.And our laughable Border authorities are thick,and obtuse.

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