Thursday 20 November 2008
Which way now for France's Socialists?
This week David Crossan’s guests on Politics include Socialist Party MEP Pervenche Beres and Green Party MEP Alain Lipietz. What now for the Socialist Party? A new alliance of the “plural left” including the Greens? (Part 1)
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- POLITICS
- Which way now for France's Socialists?
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- This week David Crossan’s guests on Politics include Socialist Party MEP Pervenche Beres and Green Party MEP Alain Lipietz. What now for the Socialist Party? A new alliance of the “plural left” including the Greens? (Part 1)
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- FRANCE 24 DEBATE
- France and Rwanda weighed down by history?
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- After a French court charged a senior Rwandan presidential aide with complicity in the 1994 assassination of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, we discuss whether France and Rwanda are weighed down by history. (Part 1)
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- FACE-OFF
- French Socialists: a battle Royal
- Friday 21 November 2008
- As Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry clash in a final run-off vote, one thing is sure: the new leader of France's Socialist Party will be a woman. But what kind of party will French people wake up to?
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- TOP STORY
- Al Qaeda challenges Obama
- Friday 21 November 2008
- Fumbling for an effective response to the election of Barack Obama as US president, al Qaeda has launched an ideological pre-emptive strike.
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- THE FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW
- Vital Kamerhe, President of the Congolese National Assembly
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- This new edition of The France 24 Interview is dedicated to the Civil War now ravaging the DR Congo. Vital Kamerhe, the President of the Congolese National Assembly, responds to this crisis now threatening the country's stability.
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- THE TALK OF PARIS
- Abdou Diouf, secretary general of La Francophonie
- Friday 21 November 2008
- In a world increasingly dominated by English and internet giants such as Google, can the French language avoid domination? Abdou Diouf, secretary general of the organisation of French-speaking countries gives his view. (Part 1 of 2)
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- THE BUSINESS INTERVIEW
- Patrick Kron, Alstom chairman and CEO
- Friday 14 November 2008
- As the financial crisis spreads to the broader economy, a handful of companies are bucking the trend. Among them is the French engineering group Alstom. FRANCE 24's Raphaël Kahane met Patrick Kron, its chairman and CEO.
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- POLITICS
- Socialist party leadership contest bubbling up nicely
- Wednesday 12 November 2008
- Defeated presidential candidate Ségolène Royal had put her candidacy in the fridge, then declared social democracy to be past its "best before" date. Now it looks like Royal is coming out of the fridge and into the fire.
