While Europe and the IMF rush to Ireland’s aid, Portugal is sinking deeper into crisis. Faced with the country’s economic difficulties, the government has announced an unprecedented austerity plan: VAT is to go up, civil servants’ salaries are to be frozen or even cut, and benefits are to be reduced too. These austerity measures are causing anxiety among the population, already confronted with hard times.
After three months of controversy, France 24 offers you a different look at Gypsies and Roma people. Our reporter Hélène Frade visited a suburb of Paris, where teachers go to makeshift camps to meet their pupils.
Pay more, retire later. France’s much-maligned pension reform goes to vote in parliament in just a few days. And it’s on everyone’s mind. France 24 takes a look at how the French spend their retirement.
As Rwandans prepare to vote in the August 9 presidential elections, FRANCE 24’s Lucas Menget is in Kigali reporting on the polls, which will likely see incumbent leader Paul Kagame win a fresh seven-year term.
In the month that followed the Haiti quake, the French donated 65 million Euros for emergency aid. Who gets the money? Who uses it? What impact does it have on the ground? Find out in this edition of Reporters.
With the attention of the world fixed on the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, France 24 correspondents Melissa Bell and Hélène Frade travelled to Chad to take a closer look at its shrinking lake.
In France, one prisoner commits suicide every three days. FRANCE 24 went behind the scenes of this hidden world to bring you previously unseen footage of punishment cells. Our reporter met both prisoners and guards.
Nearly 40 per cent of Fallujah's residents turned up at polling stations during Saturday’s provincial elections, in the hope that the results will mean significant improvements to daily life in the Iraqi Sunni stronghold.
In Chicago, our reporters came across some of the people who have met or worked with Barack Obama during his rise to power. They have high expectations of him should he win the election and become the first African-American president.
In the state of Michigan, birthplace of the US car industry, the global crisis is hitting particularly hard. For the blue collar workers who swell the ranks of the jobless, Barack Obama's election manifesto is the only plausible plan for the future.
Hélène FRADE 
