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Tuesday 13 May 2008
French assembly rejects proposal on GM crops
The Government's law proposal on GM crops was rejected by the French Assembly. French PM François Fillon has appointed a commission of deputies and senators to find a consensus and put the proposal back on the table. (Analysis: D. Crossan)
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- ENVIRONMENT - GM CROPS
- French assembly rejects proposal on GM crops
- Tuesday 13 May 2008
- The Government's law proposal on GM crops was rejected by the French Assembly. French PM François Fillon has appointed a commission of deputies and senators to find a consensus and put the proposal back on the table. (Analysis: D. Crossan)
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- FRANCE - ROAD SAFETY
- French bargoers to be breathalysed before driving
- Monday 12 May 2008
- The government is planning to make the installation of public breathalysers compulsory in bars and night clubs by the summer. The announcement came after at least 17 people died in car crashes last weekend, mostly in drink-related accidents.
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- SLAVERY - ANNIVERSARY
- Over a century since it was abolished, slavery lives on
- Friday 09 May 2008
- On May 10, France commemorates the end of slavery, which was definitively abolished in April 1848. Yet, far from disappearing, slavery still exists today in many forms in France and throughout the world. (Report: C.Westerheide/C.Bauer)
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- FRANCE - WWII
- Sarkozy hails 'moral victory' in World War II
- Thursday 08 May 2008
- They were 177 young men volunteering to free France alongside the allied troops on D-Day. In a speech to mark the 1945 Allied victory on Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to the Kieffer Commando. (Story: FR3)
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- FRANCE - MEXICO
- Parents of French woman jailed in Mexico turn to Sarkozy
- Wednesday 07 May 2008
- The parents of Florence Cassez, a French woman convicted of kidnapping in Mexico, met the French president on Wednesday to ask for his assistance in proving her innocence. (Story: France 2 - J. Jackson)
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- FRANCE - POLITICS
- Sombre mood greets Sarkozy's first year in office
- Tuesday 06 May 2008
- French president Nicolas Sarkozy marks his first year in office on Tuesday, with latest polls chopping another four points out of his plummeting approval rating to put it at an all-time low of 36 percent. (Report: E.Irvine)
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- FRANCE - POLITICS
- Mysterious investigators spied on leftist leader
- Tuesday 06 May 2008
- The Revolutionary Communist League party has announced that it would file a lawsuit after its leader Olivier Besancenot was monitored by private investigators. (Report: T. Grucza)
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- FRANCE - INDUSTRY
- Industry giant Alstom suspected of corruption
- Tuesday 06 May 2008
- French prosecutors opened, at the end of 2007, an investigation into French engineering heavyweight Alstom, following allegations of "corruption of foreign public agents," according to a judicial source. The group has denied the allegations.
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