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  • First meeting for new French cabinet

    France — Link

    France's new government has held its first cabinet meeting Friday, which also reunited President François Hollande with his former partner.

  • How the Hebrew word 'me’anyen' was born from a French corruption scandal

    International — Link

    The Hebrew for 'interesting' was invented for an 1893 newspaper report on a graft scandal during the building of the Panama Canal.   

  • France on Ebola alert

    International — Link

    Medical services in France are put 'on alert' over the deadly disease that is sweeping Guinea, a former French West African colony.

  • France to seek EU review of deficit deadlines

    France — Link

    French finance minister Michel Sapin said there was a 'thin line' between budgetary rigour and an economically choking excess of austerity.

  • Paris' Grand Palais showcases Robert Mapplethorpe

    International — Link

    Once dismissed as a shallow sensation-seeker, the late US photographer's works are fêted in a show at the Grand Palais exhibition center.

  • 'Spaniards at peak of French power'

    International — Link

    The ascensions of French PM Manuel Valls and newly elected Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, both Spanish-born, are celebrated in the Spanish media.

  • Anti-austerity leftist in new French cabinet

    France — Link

    Arnaud Montebourg, known for attacks on big business and the European Commission, takes charge of an enlarged economy ministry.  

  • New French government sees return of Ségolène Royal, the exit of Moscovici, and an olive branch for the Left

    France

    Manuel Valls, appointed as French prime minister on Monday after the ruling Socialist Party suffered major losses in local elections last weekend, has revealed his new cabinet of 16 ministers, composed of an equal number of men and women. Beyond what is largely a reshuffle, there are two new faces: that of Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party’s unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 presidential elections and who is also President François Hollande’s former partner, and François Rebsamen, a Senator and Mayor of Dijon and close friend of the president. Former finance minister Pierre Moscovici and education minister Vincent Peillon have not been included in the new government. After days of speculation, former justice minister Christiane Taubira was reappointed to the post despite past differences with Valls when he served as interior minister under the previous government of Jean-Marc Ayrault. Here, Mediapart reports on the winners and losers of the cabinet change and the power games and negotiations that preceded it.

  • Valls and Ayrault complete handing-over ceremony

    France — Link

    Newly-appointed French PM Manuel Valls paid tribute to the outgoing Jean-Marc Ayrault during the ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.

  • Is London really 'France's sixth biggest city'?

    International — Link

    London mayor Boris Johnson claims the huge French population in his city gives it the title, but some figures say otherwise.

  • Manuel Valls: profile

    France — Link

    France's new PM is the Barcelona-born son of a Catalan artist who obtained French nationality at the age of 20.

  • Manuel Valls appointed new French prime minister

    France — Link

    Valls, 51, is the Socialists’ hardliner on immigration and security and has held controversial stances while serving as interior minister.

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