Latest update: 18/05/2012 

- François Hollande - French politics - government


After celebrating, a sense of urgency

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FRENCH PAPERS, Fri. 18/05/12: France’s new government is in the spotlight after holding its first cabinet meeting yesterday. It seems all the papers agree that it’s time for Hollande and his ministers to hit the ground running.

IN THE PAPERS
By Florence VILLEMINOT
French papers ask whether troops should pull out of Afghanistan
24/08/2010 - French press review

French papers ask whether troops should pull out of Afghanistan

The day after two French soldiers died in Afghanistan, Le Parisien asks if French troops should not pull out of the country once and for all. Also, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and former Justice Minister Rachida Dati criticise Sarkozy’s current security policies in Le Monde. These and other stories in today’s French press review. TUESDAY, 24th AUGUST 2010
Britain wants to make more babies at home
23/08/2010 - IN THE PAPERS

Britain wants to make more babies at home

The Ground Zero Memorial is stirring up quite a controversy, while Britain hopes to make more babies at home.
France sends Roma people home, home to nothing
23/08/2010 - IN THE PAPERS

France sends Roma people home, home to nothing

The Roma people are at the heart of a controversy here in France, with the government looking to expel 850 of them by the end of the month. Even the pope had a few French words to say about that.
“They came, they saw, they lost. And now they’re saying they won.”
20/08/2010 - International press review

“They came, they saw, they lost. And now they’re saying they won.”

The Independent’s Robert Fisk has put his poison pen to paper once again to ridicule the US pullout of Iraq. We take a look at his article as well as a more positive spin on things in the Wall Street Journal. Elsewhere, we look at international coverage of the French deportation of the Roma and a moving piece in the International Herald Tribune on the devastation in Pakistan’s Indus Valley. FRIDAY, 20th AUGUST 2010
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French papers slam US record in Iraq
20/08/2010 - French press review

French papers slam US record in Iraq

The editorials of Le Figaro and Libération are for once on the same wavelength. Both are highly critical of the US-led war in Iraq on the day after the official pullout of troops. Is the war really over when 50,000 troops remain, asks Le Figaro. Libération for its part says some victories are just as costly as a defeat. These and other stories in today’s French press review: FRIDAY, 20th AUGUST 2010

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