UPDATE: 21/09/2011 - ENERGY - ENVIRONMENT - FRANCE - GAS - GDF SUEZ - SHALE GAS FRACKING
Protests force France to backtrack on gas extraction
Protests force France to backtrack on gas extraction
One year after France gave the green light to energy companies to extract natural gas through the controversial practice of “fracking”, the government was forced to backtrack after public outcry.
UPDATE: 14/07/2013 - FRANCE - FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE - FRENCH ECONOMY - SHALE GAS FRACKING
Hollande says economic recovery underway
Hollande says economic recovery underway
In a Bastille Day interview with French TV channels, President François Hollande said that France’s economic recovery was underway, with both industrial production and consumption picking up despite persistent unemployment.
France's highest legal body, the Constitutional Council, on Friday approved a 2011 ban on fracking passed by the parliament over environmental concerns. US firm Schuepbach Energy challenged the ban after its exploration permits were cancelled.
UPDATE: 11/10/2013 - BENJAMIN NETANYAHU - DIPLOMACY - FRANCE - GREENPEACE - HASSAN ROHANI - IRAN - ISRAEL - NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Exclusive: France must resist Iran, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged France to take a tough stance on Iran and look past Prime Minister Hassan Rohani’s “smile campaign”, in this exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 on Thursday.
UPDATE: 10/10/2013 - FRANCE - ILLEGAL - IMMIGRATION
French immigrants: new world, old world
In this exclusive video report, FRANCE 24 meets two immigrants with very different stories to tell; a Malian woman who has taken French nationality and an Ivorian man who, after a decade working on the black market in Italy, yearns only for home.
UPDATE: 10/10/2013 - CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA - FRANCE - FRENCH POLITICS - PRISONS
French inmates try farming to prepare for life after jail
An organic farm in Picardy, northern France, welcomes prison inmates nearing the end of their sentences as part of a reintegration initiative. France’s controversial justice minister, Christiane Taubira, is hoping to expand the system.
UPDATE: 09/10/2013 - CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA - FRANCE - JUSTICE - NATIONAL FRONT PARTY (FRANCE) - PRISONS
Outside Prison Walls
FRENCH PRESS –
Weds. 09/10/13:
French papers focus on the government’s much-anticipated judicial reform, the rise of the National Front in small towns, corporal punishment and French "treasures".
UPDATE: 04/10/2013 - FRANCE - FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE - JUSTICE - MANUEL VALLS - POLICE - RACISM
France struggles to address racial profiling by police
France struggles to address racial profiling by police
A French court has dismissed allegations that police identity checks on 13 minorities were racially motivated. Rights groups are calling for a system to monitor the number of individuals police stop on the street, as well as why they are stopped.
A probe into claims Nicolas Sarkozy received illegal campaign funding for his successful 2007 presidential campaign has been dropped. But as he considers a political comeback, a number of other cases threaten to do real damage to his reputation.
A French court on Monday dropped a formal investigation into illegal campaign financing by former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been under investigation since March for allegedly accepting funds from L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
An audio recording has revealed how Frenchman Sébastien Judalet, killed in a mob lynching in Madagascar on Thursday after being accused of murdering a local boy, tried to convince the angry crowd of his innocence moments before he died.
A French court on Monday dropped a formal investigation into illegal campaign financing by former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been under investigation since March for allegedly accepting funds from L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
UPDATE: 04/10/2013 - FRANCE - FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE - JUSTICE - MANUEL VALLS - POLICE - RACISM
France struggles to address racial profiling by police
France struggles to address racial profiling by police
A French court has dismissed allegations that police identity checks on 13 minorities were racially motivated. Rights groups are calling for a system to monitor the number of individuals police stop on the street, as well as why they are stopped.
UPDATE: 04/10/2013 - CORSICA - FRANCE - HISTORY - MILITARY - MOROCCO - NAZIS - WORLD WAR II
France extends overdue 'merci' to Morocco WWII vets
Moroccan veterans who helped France free itself from Hitler’s grip during World War Two are finally being honored 70 years after they played a critical role in the liberation of the island of Corsica.
Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi submitted to a fierce verbal attack by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s ex-wife Cécilia, she reveals in a new book, when she went to Tripoli to secure the release of six medics on death row.
UPDATE: 27/09/2013 - CLIMATE CHANGE - FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE - FRENCH POLITICS - MANUEL VALLS - ROMA PEOPLE - STEM CELLS - UNEMPLOYMENT
Duflot slams Valls over Roma comments
FRENCH PRESS
– Fri. 27/09/13: Housing Minister Cécile Duflot lashes out against Interior Minister Manuel Valls over his controversial comments on the Roma community. Also in the papers: can François Hollande tackle unemployment? And the worst-case scenario has become reality regarding climate change.
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