Economic crisis

28/08/2011

French weekly magazines review

Four issues dominate the French weeklies this week: the downfall of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, the French debt crisis, the Socialist Party primaries and the walk to freedom of ex-IMF chief ...

27/08/2011

French press review 27 August 2011

Saturday’s papers are dominated by the Socialist party’s summer school, which is getting underway in La Rochelle.

27/08/2011 - Webwatch

Financial trading goes virtual

Amid the recent financial turmoil, the role of computers is being hotly debated. "To err is human," the old saying goes.

26/08/2011

French press review 26 August 2011

Friday’s French press is dominated by the ongoing reactions to the austerity plan unveiled by the government, the Socialist Party’s summer workshop in La Rochelle this weekend ...

26/08/2011 - World news explained

Sarkozy and Hu Jintao talk politics

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to the People's Republic of China this week was dominated by Libya and the eurozone debt crisis.

21/08/2011

French weekly magazines review

How to stop your euros going up in smoke.

21/08/2011 - US - China

Biden promises China US will always honour debt

American Vice-President Joe Biden told China that his country will always honour its debt obligations, at the end of a five-day visit

20/08/2011

French press review 20 August 2011

With stock markets tumbling worldwide, how worried should the French be? Will national unity help?

19/08/2011

French press review 19 August 2011

The French papers don't agree entirely on today's top stories, though there are three stories that make it onto more than one front page this morning.

18/08/2011

French press review 18 August 2011

Wealthy French join global "tax me" calls. Unions prepare more strikes. And should homo sapiens change his name?