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August 5, 2010
Ryanair will be running five new services from Paris Beauvais from November. The new destinations are in Morocco and Italy: Fez (three flights a week), Marrakech (four a week), Nador (two a week), Tangiers (three a week) and Verona (three a week). This brings the destinations served by the firm ...
July 21, 2010
Britain, France and Germany are urging European Union nations to agree to a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2020 in an effort to combat climate change. Britain's climate secretary, along with the environment ministers of France and Germany wrote in a joint letter published Thursday that the EU must ...
July 7, 2010
France hasn't made a choice between austerity and stimulus, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Sunday, describing the French economic policy as a mix of spending cuts and measures aimed at boosting demand. The robustness of the recovery and the ability of banks to survive a second downturn was a recurring ...
July 1, 2010
French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed plans on Monday to slash spending on ministerial travel and perks as part of a drive to reduce government operating costs by 10 percent over the next three years. Like much of Europe, France is trying to squeeze spending to reduce its swollen public deficit from ...
June 29, 2010
Under pressure from anxious lenders, the French government took steps on Wednesday to help reassure markets about its creditworthiness, announcing that it would raise the retirement age and increase income taxes on the rich to help rein in its budget deficit. And the Spanish government, also facing concerned investors, proposed loosening ...
June 25, 2010
Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday committed to levying a fee on banks to shield taxpayers from the cost of resolving financial crises and said they would ask other countries to join them. The proposal comes ahead of next week's summit of Group of 20 leading nations, to be held in ...
June 23, 2010
Of all the sites in Paris, Europe, and perhaps the world, there are few locations comparable to the Catacombs of Paris.. This "Empire of the Dead" is unlike any tourist destination you are likely to encounter on a Parisian vacation. Located below ground in the Montparnasse section of Paris, visiting ...
June 22, 2010
French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde repeated on Sunday that France had no revisions to make to its gross domestic product (GDP) forecasts and the country's sovereign debt rating was not under threat. Revisions to growth forecasts, if any, would be made only after mid-August and more likely at the beginning of ...
June 18, 2010
Meeting in Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy stressed their desire to speak with one voice in Europe, pledging to tighten policy coordination and improve budget discipline to contain an ongoing debt crisis. "More than ever, Germany and France are determined to talk with one voice, to adopt common ...
June 16, 2010
The German and French leaders are pushing for a raft of measures to increase stability in financial markets and ensure that Europe remains a strong player in the global economic market, including tough sanctions on European countries that run high deficits. Speaking to reporters after meeting to lay the groundwork for ...
