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Opinion: You Haven’t Seen ‘Frances Ha’ Until You’ve Seen It In IMAX (by Noah Baumbach)
Posted by admin on May 30th, 2013
Open thread for night owls: Frances Moore Lappé on generating political energy with ‘good news’
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2013
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No Comments »Austerity Has Come for France’s Wine
Posted by admin on May 3rd, 2013
It’s no secret that France’s economy is a mess. The country barely avoided a recession with 0.1 percent economic growth in the first quarter of 2013, after a 0.3 percent contraction at the end of 2012. President Francois Hollande has given up on meeting a 2013 budget deficit target, which France had promised the European [...]
France’s Hollande hails quality meat at farm show
Posted by admin on February 23rd, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande sang the praises of local produce at the annual French farm show, where the horse meat scandal added to French cattle breeders' downbeat mood. Hollande, who was long the head of the rural Correze region, spent hours talking to livestock farmers, who worry that the discovery of horse [...]
France’s Hollande to visit Mali Saturday
Posted by admin on February 1st, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande will visit Mali on Saturday, his office said. Hollande, who sent French troops to repel an advance by Islamist rebels in the West African former colony, will be accompanied by his ministers for defense, foreign affairs and development, his office said in a statement that gave no further [...]
France’s Hollande says to propose revised supertax on rich
Posted by admin on December 31st, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande said on Monday he would push ahead with an amended supertax on the rich after France's top court threw out a proposed 75-percent tax rate on those earning more than 1 million euros. The Socialist president faced embarrassment when the Constitutional Council ruled that the tax — a flagship [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: France's, Hollande, propose, revised, Rich, says, supertax No Comments »France’s conservative opposition wins by-elections
Posted by admin on December 16th, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s opposition UMP conservative party won three by-elections on Sunday despite its own internal problems, in the latest sign of trouble for Socialist President Francois Hollande. A six-week-old row over who won a November 18 vote for the UMP leadership has plunged the opposition party into disarray, but it finally looked to [...]
Insight: France’s love affair with nuclear energy cools
Posted by admin on November 29th, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) – For decades, the elite engineers turned out by Paris's grand Corps des Mines academy were faithful followers of the pro-atomic creed that transformed their country into the most nuclear-reliant nation in the world. But a new generation of Mines graduates is starting to question that policy. It is a change of mindset [...]
France’s Hollande sees budget deal unlikely on Friday
Posted by admin on November 23rd, 2012
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande said it looked unlikely that European Union negotiators would reach an agreement on Friday on the bloc’s nearly 1 trillion euro budget for the next seven years, although he said a delayed deal would not be serious. “Everyone agrees this is going to take time,” Hollande told reporters. [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Budget, Deal, France's, FRIDAY, Hollande, sees, Unlikely No Comments »Rivals dispute leadership of France’s conservatives
Posted by admin on November 19th, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) – The result of a tightly fought two-way contest to choose the next leader of France's conservatives remained unclear on Sunday, with both sides claiming they had won. Jean-Francois Cope, a disciple of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, announced his victory to reporters around 2230 GMT, only for former prime minister Francois Fillon to [...]
