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12/03/2013 - France

Former Paris mayor and wife found guilty of vote-rigging

A French court has found a former Paris mayor and his wife guilty of vote-rigging in local and national elections in the 1990s.

05/10/2012

French press review 5 October 2012

Pigeons, Sarkozy and women's rights in Tunisia all feature in today's French newspapers..

18/09/2012 - France

Hollande denounces Timbuktu destruction at opening of Islamic Art wing in Louvre

French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday denounced the "unfathomable stupidity" of Islamist radicals who destroyed Muslim shrines at Timbuktu in northern Mali.

06/09/2012 - France

Corruption watchdog says France could do better

Transparency International, the worldwide corruption-monitoring organisation concluded in its annual report for 2011 ...

12/06/2012 - France

Ex-president Sarkozy's 10 bodyguards to cost over 700,000 euros a year

The French state is to provide former French president Nicolas Sarkozy with 10 bodyguards, at a cost of over 720,000 euros a year, according to Paris Match magazine.

24/05/2012 - France

French SNCF railway to fund Holocaust research at Jerusalem museum

France’s state railway, SNCF, has signed an agreement with the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem to boost research into the deportation of French Jews to death camps during World War ...

11/05/2012 - France

Nicolas Sarkozy faces possible investigations after losing presidential immunity in France

Outgoing French president Nicolas Sarkozy faces possible legal probes into allegations of corruption and illicit campaign financing when he steps down next week and loses his presidential ...

17/04/2012 - French presidential election 2012

Chirac to vote Hollande in French presidential election, report

France’s former right-wing president Jacques Chirac is to vote for Socialist François Hollande in this month’s presidential election, according to the historian who is helping ...

25/02/2012 - France

Sarkozy kicks off France's largest agricultural fair

French President Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated the 49th annual Salon de l’Agriculture in Paris on Saturday morning.

13/02/2012

French press review 13 February 2012

This could be the week, folks. According to three of this morning's dailies, President Nicolas Sarkozy will officially anounce his intention to stand for re-election within the next few days.

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