Latest update: 07/12/2012 

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'Florange: autopsy of a disaster'

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FRENCH PRESS REVIEW - 07/12/12: The long-running saga over a steel plant in northern France – Florange - is continuing to get a lot of attention in the French press. Le Figaro wonders if Industrial Recovery Minister Arnaud Montebourg could be the big winner in the end. Meanwhile, Le Monde has a scathing editorial about French prisons.

IN THE PAPERS
By Florence VILLEMINOT
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French debate on national identity was a “fiasco”

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Ukraine: "Enough with raping our democracy"
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Regional elections: "France in Pink"

In today’s French press review, we focus on the upcoming regional elections.
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“Tough road ahead” for Northern Ireland politics, despite policing deal
05/02/2010 - INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW

“Tough road ahead” for Northern Ireland politics, despite policing deal

Northern Irish politicians have finally agreed on one of the most persistent sticking points of the two-decade long negotiations for devolved government, yet there are still many challenges ahead, says John Murray Brown in the Financial Times.
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05/02/2010 - FRENCH PRESS REVIEW

Strauss-Kahn would beat Sarkozy in Presidential run-off, says poll

The day after Dominique Strauss Kahn told a French radio station that he might consider a Presidential bid in 2012, a poll in the magazine Marianne says the head of the IMF would get 52% of the vote against Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round.

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