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Sarkozy: 'Le Pen isn't incompatible with the French Republic'

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Nicolas Sarkozy's full-on chase after Marine Le Pen's voters has gone too far for a lot of France's newspapers, as they accuse him of borrowing the rhetoric of the Second World War.

IN THE PAPERS
By Elena CASAS

Libération accuses the president of breaking the ultimate taboo in French politics - the wall between the mainstream right and the National Front.

L'Humanité says he's borrowed the language of Marshal Pétain - and they're furious he's trying to hold a meeting on May Day.

Le Monde is looking at where Marine Le Pen goes from here - saying her aim is to destroy the UMP party and become the sole leader of the opposition on the right to a future President Hollande.

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02/04/2013 - IN THE WORLD PAPERS

'The picture went all over the world. But it didn’t help my family'

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PSG vs. Barcelona: one big winner... Qatar
02/04/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

PSG vs. Barcelona: one big winner... Qatar

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'I don't know 'bout deir feet ... budda my 'ans never looka so squeaky clean!'
29/03/2013 - IN THE WORLD PAPERS

'I don't know 'bout deir feet ... budda my 'ans never looka so squeaky clean!'

We look at heightened tension between Pyongyang and Washington. One paper reports that the US is engaged in "subtle-messaging" by flying stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula. Pope Francis, meanwhile, is embarking on his first Easter weekend as Pontiff: is his washing of feet more to do with washing his hands? And, in the throes of the Cyprus crisis, can IMF boss Christine Lagarde fix Europe?
Libération on Hollande: 'So far, so bad'
29/03/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

Libération on Hollande: 'So far, so bad'

French papers this Friday are critical of President François Hollande's performance in his Thursday evening prime-time TV interview. He gets panned in the left-wing paper Libération for being an 'optimist addict' and in the right-wing Le Figaro for insisting on a new 75 percent tax band for those earning over a million euros. One paper, though, does say there are five reasons to be cheerful.
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28/03/2013 - IN THE WORLD PAPERS

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IN THE PAPERS INTERNATIONAL - 28/03/13: Maids in Brazil are granted equal labour rights while foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong are denied the right to become permanent residents. Meanwhile, Slate compares the language used by the "anti-gay marriage camp" and those against interracial marriage in the 1960s, and the parallels are striking. And Google returns to Fukushima to take photos for Street View.

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