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President François Hollande’s plan to cut spending, raise taxes and find much-needed funds of €30 billion has hit the headlines for a second day running, as the media looks at just how he hopes to do it.

IN THE PAPERS
By Olivia Salazar-Winspear

Le Figaro is asking the question: just who will be affected by the tax hikes? They look at what’s really behind the reform.

Le Parisien asks where the state will make savings, and how? Their headline reads: Billions of euros won’t be so easy for Hollande to find.

Les Echos, the business daily, casts a sceptical eye on the news suggesting that higher taxes and austerity measures could present serious risks for growth.
 
L’Humanité interviews the Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, who says "Austerity is a disaster".
 
La Croix, the Catholic paper, headlines on a draft law on same-sex marriage. They interview justice minister Christiane Taubira, challenging her on her plans to change the law to allow for same-sex marriages and adoptions.
 
Finally, yesterday they told him to "get lost, rich idiot!", but today Libération is doing a little grovelling: they tell Bernard Arnault that if he comes back, all will be forgiven.
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INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Friday 5 April. It's involved 80 journalists from across the globe and a year-long investigation into the opaque world of tax havens. The result: more than 100,000 names linked to offshore bank accounts. In this special International Press Review we speak to the one of the people leading the investigation, the Guardian's Investigations Editor, David Leigh.
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A presidential nightmare
05/04/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

A presidential nightmare

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04/04/2013 - IN THE WORLD PAPERS

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04/04/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

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03/04/2013 - IN THE FRENCH PAPERS

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FRENCH PAPERS, Weds. 03/04/13: French papers seem to have the wind knocked out of them after the former budget minister admitted he had a secret bank account in Switzerland. Libération says this discredits politicians in general. Le Figaro says it comes as a slap in the face to François Hollande’s promise for a squeaky-clean government. Meanwhile, Mediapart, the website that broke the scandal, is trying to find out if the government knew about the account and was trying to protect Cahuzac.

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