French-Swiss relations improve as banking row ends
GenevaLunch News Davos, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz told reporters in Davos late Wednesday 27 January that a French-Swiss crisis over stolen bank data is now...
View ArticleFrance increases deportations of Roma
GenevaLunch News France is increasing pressure on its Roma population, and others considered to be illegal immigrants. The moves are part of president Nicolas Sarkozy’s crackdown on crime. Some have...
View ArticleBritish PM’s Dad dies
GenevaLunch News British Prime Minister David Cameron flew to the south of France in time to take his leave of his father Ian, 77, who died after a stroke with heart complications Wednesday 8...
View ArticleFrance schedules presidential elections
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – April 2012 will see President Sarkozy running for re-election in France against a candidate whose name will not be known until the autumn of 2011...
View ArticleFrench Left ponders Aubry, Holland choice
GenevaLunch News PARIS, FRANCE – France’s Socialists face the choice of Martine Aubry and Francois Hollande for the 2012 presidential election, after a weekend vote. Arnaud Montebourg and Ségolène...
View ArticleEurope adapts to new relations, with UK cooler on EU
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Financial Times wondered Sunday if the UK will drop out of the European Union, but most media weren’t willing to take it quite that far. Europe was...
View ArticleThe French election (Chappatte cartoon)
GenevaLunch News ©2012 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le...
View ArticleSarkozy, Hollande to face off in 2.5 hour Wednesday debate
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – French and French-speaking Switzerland media are abuzz speculating over the likely outcome of a debate Wednesday evening 2 May between French presidential...
View ArticleSarkozy and Marine Le Pen (Chappatte cartoon)
GenevaLunch News ©2012 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le...
View ArticleFrench spy Qaddafi killing rumours continue to build
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Stories that appeared in Sunday British and Italian print media, that Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffi was killed by a French spy, are growing, following the death...
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