A French newspaper has published emails between Ikea and a private detective firm which it says show the Swedish furniture multinational paid for access to police files on its staff and customers.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told his government to draft a new law making it a crime to publicly deny the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians, following the striking down of a previous bill on Tuesday by France’s Constitutional Court.
Hollande said the tax was “sending out a message of social cohesion,” adding that it was simply a case of “patriotism to accept to pay extra tax to get the country back on its feet again.”
French Labor Minister Xavier Bertrand told Europe 1 radio on Wednesday that Peugeot Chief Executive Philippe Varin “informed me last night of these discussions for a strategic partnership, and told me it was good news for the company.”
Journalists surrounded Strauss-Kahn’s car as he arrived at a police station in Lille, northern France on Tuesday morning. He could be held at the station for questioning for 48 hours.
The British government says the agreement will create several commercial deals worth more than $790 million in the nuclear energy field, as well as 1,500 UK jobs.
Far right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was convicted Thursday for "contesting crimes against humanity," after saying that that the Nazi occupation of France was "not especially inhumane."
The bank reported a net income of $1 billion for the last three months of last year, due to fresh write-downs of its Greek assets by a further $740 million.
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