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24/04/2012 - France

France slammed by Amnesty International for discrimination against Muslims

France is one of the countries highlighted by rights group Amnesty International as discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields of education and ...

22/04/2012

European press review

Stories from Norway, Argentina, Switzerland Egypt and Spain make the news in a selection of this week's newspapers from around Europe

17/04/2012 - France

Motorists queue to steal 3,000 litres of petrol

Motorists filled up with 3,000 litres of free petrol at a French supermarket service station on Saturday night.

18/03/2012 - France

Newspaper claims Swiss bus driver distracted by request to play DVD film

The driver of the Swiss bus which crashed on Tuesday killing 22 children and six adults was possibly distracted by a teacher handing him a DVD film to play, according to Swiss newspaper Le ...

16/03/2012 - France

Depardieu to play Strauss-Kahn in Abel Ferrera-directed film

French actor Gerard Depardieu is to play former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film about his fall from grace in a series of sex scandals directed by American Abel Ferrara.

15/03/2012

French press review 15 March 2012

The costing of François Hollande's election programme, stories from the fatal bus crash in Switzerland and the Chinese currency all feature in today's French newspapers.

14/03/2012 - Switzerland - Belgium

Swiss bus crash leaves scores of schoolchildren dead

The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France held a minute of silence on Wednesday, following a Swiss bus crash that killed at least 22 schoolchildren returning to Belgium from a ski holiday.

13/03/2012 - France - Switzerland

Presidential candidate Sarkozy would strip tax avoiders living abroad of French nationality

If re elected in May, French president Nicolas Sarkozy will introduce a new rule under which French citizens who move abroad to pay less tax than they would in France must pay the difference in ...

11/03/2012

European press review

We begin this week in Iceland, where a former prime minister became the first leader in the world to be tried for failing to deal with the economic crisis.

Living in France, working in Switzerland
01/03/2012 - On-the-spot France

Living in France, working in Switzerland

Frontaliers are people who cross the border everyday, between Switzerland and France. Benefits include higher salaries on the Swiss side and lower daily costs in France.

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