Home > Keywords > International > France

France

  • Some informations about the October 18th massive Strike in France
    21 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Since 1993, the Pensions are attacked by capitalists. The workers of private sector had to give 40 years of dues instead of 37,5 years since 1993 and retirement at 60. In 1995, the governement tried to attack railways workers retires. He also wanted to close 6 000 km of railways. These two attacks were fighted by railways workers by a victorious strike of 3 weeks. We obtain a delay of 12 years before the new attack of this year.
    In 2003, the governement change the conditions of Pensions (…)

  • Sarkozy candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Strauss-Kahn’s candidacy was first proposed by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy in July and the campaign soon gained momentum with the support of the EU, which collectively holds 32.09 percent of IMF voting rights, and the US, the single largest contributor with 16.83 percent.
    France’s Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    29.09.2007
    The International Monetary Fund has named Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its managing director at a time when the (…)

  • International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris
    23 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Press release for immediate distribution - Paris, Sept. 20th 2007
    Day -10 before deadline !
    You still have until Oct.1st to submit your film to the 2008 edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris .
    Please go to our homepage at www.festival-droitsdelhomme.org or click directly on http://festival-droitsdelhomme.org/docs/2008.doc
    The 6th International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris will take place from March 26th until April 1 st 2008.
    We look forward (…)

  • Blogger and Mayor Freddy ban the Racists
    1 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mayor Freddy Thielemans
    All those who have complained about the racist site Blog Cochon will be pleased to know that Blogger has decided to ban the site from public viewing on the basis that it is in contravention of its Contents Policy. Blogger is to be congratulated and supported in its exemplary actions.
    But, true to their parasitic nature, the anonymous authors of Les Cochons (to describe these short-lived blogs collectively) keep moving from one site to another, abusing their (…)

  • Google/Blogger refuses to ban Racist Blog
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    12 comments

    By Rory Winter
    From its title, Le Blog du Cochon Hallal, is clearly meant as a calculated insult against Muslims. If it had been called Kosher Pigs there would have been a tremendous outcry from the international Jewish community and Blogger would have been forced to close it down without further ado.
    But Google/Blogger’s attitude appears to be totally cynical and tailored simply to market forces. knowing that the Muslim community is incapable of organizing the kind of opposition that (…)

  • Work: A Health Hazard for One in Three Europeans
    29 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Thomas Lemahieu
    Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned.
    A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”.
    Employees from the countries newly (…)

  • 1789, The Spirit of the French Revolution
    14 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Lucien Louvrier
    In a brilliant synthesis entitled "1789, The Heritage and the Memory" ("1789, l’héritage et la mémoire"), French historian Michel Vovelle sums up a lifetime of research into the French Revolution’s heritage and the history of its memory in French society and beyond.
    To conflate in a dense historiographic synthesis the sum of a lifetime of research on the French Revolution is a formidable achievement, especially as the author takes in both the political, institutional, (…)

  • Philippe Marlière : "It would be suicidal for the Left to import Blairism in France"
    13 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jacqueline Sellem
    In 1998, Tony Blair declared before French deputies: “There is no right or left politics in economic management today, but economic policies which work and other which don’t work.” ... "It is amusing to hear some elements in the French media talking about a ’socially-sensitive Blair’ whereas he has actually re-used Thatcher’s neoliberal recipes and promoted the interests of the advocates of the financial capitalism."
    HUMA: When French media summed up Blair’s legacy (…)

  • Franco – Arab Ties Could Yet Survive Sarkozy’s U-Turn
    27 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of France on May 16, as well as his Jewish connection and that of his foreign policy team, have alerted Arab capitals and public opinion to a possibly imminent break with his country’s more than a five-decade old balanced approach to Arab conflicts and the Arab – Israeli (…)

  • Sarkozy adviser may stand trial for corporate espionage in Belgium
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    14:09 | 21/ 05/ 2007 BRUSSELS, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s new legal adviser found himself in the unwanted media spotlight this past weekend as a business magazine said he could face trial in a long-running corporate espionage case in Belgium.
    Capital weekly said Patrick Ouart, former secretary general of the French energy group Suez, could be tried for suspected involvement in illegally obtaining confidential information about Belgian subsidiary Electrabel. (…)