Sunday 23 November 2008
Socialist Party's fate in the hands of vote-counting officials
Lille Mayor Martine Aubry won the Socialist Party's leadership vote, beating rival Ségolène Royal by a razor-thin margin. The gap narrowed down from 42 votes to 18, raising questions within the party about irregularities in the vote count.
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- AUTOMOBILES
- Peugeot Citroen announces 3,550 job cuts
- Friday 21 November 2008
- Europe's second largest carmaker Peugeot Citroen announced that it would cut 2700 jobs across its sites in France along with 850 executive and professional positions in Rennes where the company produces mid-range and high-end vehicles.
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- RWANDA - F24 EXCLUSIVE
- Kabuye: 'I'm not scared because I'm innocent'
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- Rwandan official Rose Kabuye was granted bail after a French court charged her for complicity to murder over the killing of President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994. In an exclusive interview with F24 Kabuye said she will prove her innocence.
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- JUSTICE - FRANCE
- Magistrates demand apology from Justice Minister
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Unhappy with the way the Minister of Justice Rachida Dati treated some of their colleagues after a 16-year-old boy committed suicide in jail, over 500 magistrates demanded a public apology.
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- FRENCH POLITICS
- Margin in Socialist poll 'narrows' to 18 votes
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- Lille Mayor Martine Aubry has won the Socialist Party's leadership vote, beating rival Ségolène Royal by a razor-thin margin. The gap narrowed to 18 votes after a local party branch flagged a vote-counting error.
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- JAPAN - WINE
- France's famous Beaujolais goes global
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- As the French wine-producing town of Beaujeu celebrated the arrival of 2008's vintage of the now famous "Beaujolais nouveau", Japanese fans welcomed the wine in their own way: by bathing in it.
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- BANKING
- Commission approves state guarantees for Dexia
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- The European Commission has given the green light to state guarantees worth 150 billion euros offered by France, Belgium and Luxembourg in October to the cash-strapped Franco-Belgian bank Dexia.
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- FRANCE
- French ex-PM to appear in court over alleged smear campaign
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin has been ordered to appear before a court in connection with an alleged smear campaign that targeted President Nicolas Sarkozy, sources close to the case said Tuesday.
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- FRANCE
- Senate favours legalising retirement by choice to age 70
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- The French Senate has debated a bill that would allow salaried workers to retire at 70, instead of the current cap of 65, as of 2010.
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- AEROSPACE
- Dassault could buy Alcatel-Lucent's stake in Thales
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- French aerospace company Dassault Aviation, which makes the Rafale plane, has entered exclusive negotiations with telecoms equipment company Alcatel-Lucent, with the aim of buying the latter's 20.8% stake in Thales.
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- FRANCE
- Senate approves raising pilot retirement age to 65
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- The French Senate has approved a measure raising the retirement age for pilots from 60 to 65 despite a four-day strike to protest the change that caused widespread disruption to Air France services.
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- RETAIL
- Carrefour chief executive to be replaced
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- French retail giant Carrefour has announced the departure of its chief executive Jose Luis Duran, following tension with the main shareholders. He will be replaced by Lars Olofsson, currently at Nestlé. Carrefour's shares rose on the news.
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- FRANCE
- November strikes in France: what to expect
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- France’s unions are planning a week of massive strikes to protest against a string of reforms to France's sprawling public sector backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Here is a list of the disturbances expected to hit air, rail and road travellers.
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