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24/04/2013 - France

Peugeot may close strike-ridden plant this year

The troubled French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroën says it may shut down an iconic plant north-east of Paris this year because of continuing strikes and falling sales.

10/08/2012 - France

Renault South Korea to shed jobs as sales slump

French carmaker Renault is to shed jobs at its South Korean subsidiary, Renault Samsung Motors.

13/07/2012

French press review 13 July 2012

The French national dailies all focused on the same dismal news of French automaker PSA Peugeot Citroën's announcement to close down the giant car factory by 2014 and its plan to cut ...

12/07/2012

French press review 12 July 2012

There's practically nothing but bad news on this morning's front pages, starting with thousands of job losses at Peugeot Citroën and going on to prophecies of more doom in the eurozone and ...

14/03/2011 - France

Renault apologises to sacked managers

French car maker Renault publicly apologised on Monday to three top managers it fired for allegedly selling electric car secrets to China after it emerged the French automaker may have been the ...

13/03/2011 - France

Renault spy case morphs into fraud inquiry

French police have opened a fraud inquiry as evidence grows that three executives accused of industrial espionage at carmaker Renault were framed.

Classic cars on show at Rétromobile
17/02/2011 - Rendezvous

Classic cars on show at Rétromobile

The annual classic car fair in Paris, Rétromobile, is now in its 36th year.

06/02/2011 - France

Six thousand evacuated as WWII bomb defused near Paris

About 6,000 people were evacuated from the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt Sunday morning so that bomb squad experts could defuse a 500-kilogramme bomb dropped during World War II.

18/01/2011 - France

French press review 18 January 2011

Today's papers continue with, depending on which one you read, the 'Facebook' or 'Jasmine' Revolution in Tunisia.

06/01/2011 - France

French press review 6 January, 2010

Communist l'Humanité looks at the French university sector, currently in the throes of something like privatisation. Since January 1st, no fewer than 73 French third-level institutions (of a total of 83) have become autonomous.

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