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French weekly magazines review 10 August 2014

This week's l'Express wonders if the French Jewish community is right to be scared.

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The French weekly published several articles on the subject. This comes a week after the two pro-Palestinian protests that were banned in Paris. L'Express explains that all lot of members of the Jewish community were shocked by the use of anti-Semitic slurs during these protests.

And now, 5,000 people are planning to leave France for Israel, a trend becoming more and more common, according to the magazine.

For Michel Wieviorka, a sociologist interviewed by l'Express, the Jewish community might be over reacting. He says that it is true that communautarism has been on the rise in France. But when it comes to anti-semitism, the researcher says that the fear of the Jewish just creates more fear.

Le Point met with the man who is creating a lot of jobs in France.

Guillaume Richard is the CEO of O2, a company that offers homecare services. According to a study, Richard was the French entrepreneur who hired the highest number of people between 2008 and 2013. That represents about 6,100 jobs.

There are several reasons to that French success story. First the fact that the French population is growing older and that means more maids, gardeners and nurses are needed and according to Guillaume Richard, business is flourishing because of tax benefits. The state offers various tax breaks to people who chose to use homecare services.

Richard is not planning to stop here. The ambitious 40-year-old expects to have more than 100,000 employees by 2030. And that would be a good news for the French economy notes Le Point.

Some people are now bringing their dirty laundry to parties in London.

That is in this week Le Nouvel Observateur. I know it sounds strange, but that has apparently become a thing in the British capital. The idea is actually quite simple: you sleep with the same tee-shirt for three nights and then bring it to the bar. But what is the aim you may ask? In a word, to find love.

140 people attended the first Pheromone party in London. It works almost like speed dating, but instead of speaking to a stranger for a limited time you just sniff his dirty laundry. And if you find the smell appealing, you can then start talking. According to Le Nouvel Obs, the organisers think that love is just a matter of pheromones. But for André Holley, a researcher in Burgundy, there is nothing sure about that.

And finally, le Canard Enchainé is talking about Laurent Fabius this week.

The satirical newspaper wrote a funny little story about the Foreign Minister. Apparently Fabius, already very busy with the Ukrainian crisis and the Gaza conflict, has developed an interest for hotels. About a week ago, the Foreign minister decided to invite himself to the inauguration of a new palace in Paris, the Peninsula.

According to Le Canard Enchainé, Laurent Fabius rang the staff of the hotel just one day before the inauguration asking to cut the ribbon and be the first to make a speech. Problem, the minister was supposed to meet with Iraqi Christian at exactly the same time. So what did Fabius do? According to the newspaper, he asked the staff to start the inauguration one hour earlier. But the palace refused.

A former Prime Minister is less important than the staff of a hotel the French diplomacy is not what is used to be.

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