Monday, July 06, 2009

  • FACE OFF
    Tour de France: clean at last?
    Friday 03 July 2009
    Tour de France is due to start on July, 4th. The reputation of this competition has been turnished by endless doping affairs: can it come to an end this year?
  • TOP STORY
    Call for global blacklist
    Friday 03 July 2009
    The European Union will soon propose the creation of a global blacklist of airlines deemed unsafe, according to EU's top transport official, Antonio Tajani, in the aftermath of a plane crash near Comoros. What change would this initiative lead to?
  • Politics
    The launch of the French national loan
    Thursday 02 July 2009
    Melissa Bell interviews Alison Smale (International Herald Tribune), Guillaume Duval (Alternatives Economiques) , Philip Turle (RFI) and Bruno Jeanbart (Opinion Way) to discuss the launch of the national loan in France.
  • The F24 Debate
    Madoff: payback time (Part 2)
    Monday 29 June 2009
    Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison after defrauding investors out of billions of dollars. Does this mark the end of the Madoff Affair, despite the gaps in the tale? And what are the broader implications for Wall Street?
  • The F24 Debate
    Madoff: payback time
    Monday 29 June 2009
    Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison after defrauding investors out of billions of dollars. Does this mark the end of the Madoff Affair, despite the gaps in the tale? And what are the broader implications for Wall Street?
  • DEBATE
    Using Twitter to avoid Iran's censorship
    Wednesday 17 June 2009
    With foreign media partly silenced in Iran, Iranians have turned to the Internet to get news out, using sites like YouTube, Facebook and, above all, Twitter.
  • The F24 Interview
    Temurl Iakobashvili, Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia
    Monday 29 June 2009
    Last August Russian troops rolled into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, separatist states of Georgia. We ask Temurl Iakobashvili what more the EU could have done and what role it should now have in the country.
  • The F24 Debate
    "Facial" Discrimination in France ? (Part 2)
    Wednesday 01 July 2009
    The Open Society Justice Initiative has released a report demonstrating racist policing in France. As many nations discuss positive discrimination and identity cards, we discuss the challenges faced in increasingly multi-ethnic societies.
THE BUSINESS INTERVIEW All the guests   
James Hogan, CEO, Etihad Airways
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Louis Gallois, CEO of EADS Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian prime minister
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Laurent Gbagbo, president of Ivory Coast

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