Thursday 04 December 2008
French €26bn stimulus plan to boost investment
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- FINANCIAL CRISIS
- French €26bn stimulus plan to boost investment
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- "Our response to the crisis is investment," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he unveiled a €26bn stimulus package. The plan, which will add a further €15.5bn to the country's public deficit, focuses on the construction and car industries.
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- FRANCE - UNEMPLOYMENT
- Number of jobless still rising
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- France's unemployment rate in France rose 0.1% in the third quarter to reach 7.3%, according to the national statistics body INSEE. The under 25-year-olds are particularly hit, with 18.7% seeking work in a worsening job market.
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- CHINA - FRANCE
- Beijing warns Sarkozy against Dalai Lama meeting
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- China's foreign ministry said the scheduled meeting of French President Nicolas Sarkozy with the Dalai Lama in Poland on Saturday threatened multi-billion-dollar trade ties between the countries.
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- AFGHANISTAN
- Freed French hostage expected in Paris
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- French aid worker Dany Egreteau, who was kidnapped a month ago in the Afghan capital Kabul, has been released and will be flown back home to Paris late Thursday, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday.
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- FRANCE - JUSTICE
- Judge reopens case of 4-year-old Gregory, murdered in 1984
- Wednesday 03 December 2008
- A French judge decided Wednesday to reopen one of France's darkest murder mysteries in the hope that DNA tests can help find the killer of Gregory Villemin, who was found drowned in 1984, when he was four years old.
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- FRANCE
- Unions fear voter apathy in vote for labour-relations boards
- Wednesday 03 December 2008
- French workers and employers cast their ballots to elect new members for the country’s industrial tribunals, in charge of ruling on labour disputes.Trade unions hope France’s workforce will show up en masse, but opinion polls say otherwise.
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- PRESS - JUSTICE
- Sarkozy seeks calm over journalist arrest
- Tuesday 02 December 2008
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy distanced himself from the arrest of journalist Vittorio de Filippis on libel charges and said he would push for a review of defamation laws following criticism that the arrest was intended to intimidate the press.
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- US JUSTICE
- Polanski seeks dismissal of statutory rape charge
- Wednesday 03 December 2008
- French-Polish film director Roman Polanski has asked a US court to drop a statutory rape charge against him dating from 1977. Polanski was arrested after the parents of a 13-year-old girl filed a complaint and remains a fugitive from the USA.
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