GenevaLunch » France http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Solar Impulse flying over Jura, France en route to Moroccohttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/solar-impulse-flying-over-jura-france-en-route-to-morocco/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/solar-impulse-flying-over-jura-france-en-route-to-morocco/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 08:23:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70486 GenevaLunch.com Solar-powered plane makes first intercontinental flight, must pass over Pyrenees LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Solar Impulse, the elegant airplane powered only by solar cells, left Payerne shortly before 08:30 Thursday 24 May, and headed towards the Jura and into France. Pilot André Borschberg expects to land this evening, after midnight, at Madrid Barajas Airport where the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/solar-impulse-flying-over-jura-france-en-route-to-morocco/feed/ 0 The Franco-German couple (Chappatte cartoon)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/the-franco-german-couple-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/the-franco-german-couple-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 13:37:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70432 GenevaLunch.com ©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 Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/the-franco-german-couple-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 François Hollande meets Angela Merkel (Chappatte cartoon)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/francois-hollande-meets-angela-merkel-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/francois-hollande-meets-angela-merkel-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 04:48:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70301 GenevaLunch.com ©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 Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/francois-hollande-meets-angela-merkel-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 Euro under pressure: backdrop to 1st Hollande, Merkel meetinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/14/euro-under-pressure-backdrop-to-1st-hollande-merkel-meeting/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/14/euro-under-pressure-backdrop-to-1st-hollande-merkel-meeting/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 04:24:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70199 GenevaLunch.com ©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 Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Angela Merkel, German chancellor, has her first-ever meeting with her new French counterpart, Francois Hollande, who takes [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/14/euro-under-pressure-backdrop-to-1st-hollande-merkel-meeting/feed/ 0 France: it’s official – Francois Hollande is president! (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/06/france-its-official-francois-hollande-is-president-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/06/france-its-official-francois-hollande-is-president-update/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 18:04:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69955 GenevaLunch.com France shifts to the left with Socialist win GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Francois Hollande comfortably defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday 6 May to become France’s new president, with 52 percent of the vote. The Socialist’s lead has been growing in the past week, following a first round of voting that eliminated candidates further to the left [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/06/france-its-official-francois-hollande-is-president-update/feed/ 0 Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen (Chappatte cartoon)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/sarkozy-and-marine-le-pen-chappatte-cartoon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/sarkozy-and-marine-le-pen-chappatte-cartoon/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 13:05:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69832 GenevaLunch.com ©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 Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/sarkozy-and-marine-le-pen-chappatte-cartoon/feed/ 0 Sarkozy, Hollande to face off in 2.5 hour Wednesday debatehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/sarkozy-hollande-to-face-off-in-2-5-hour-wednesday-debate/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/sarkozy-hollande-to-face-off-in-2-5-hour-wednesday-debate/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 12:48:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69820 GenevaLunch.com 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 candidates Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande. The 2.5 hour debate will be  televised during prime time. US new agency AP reports that “experts say past debates have never swung a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/sarkozy-hollande-to-face-off-in-2-5-hour-wednesday-debate/feed/ 0 A dog’s best friend is surely a police handlerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/27/a-dogs-best-friend-is-surely-a-police-handler/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/27/a-dogs-best-friend-is-surely-a-police-handler/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:09:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69565 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The good thing about being a police dog is that your job is to play, all the time. And you spend hours learning how to do it well, with your buddy, whom others call your “handler”. “They don’t work, they play. That’s what dogs do, and police dogs are no different,” Jean-Christophe [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/27/a-dogs-best-friend-is-surely-a-police-handler/feed/ 0 Hollande, then Sarkozy: rematch 6 Mayhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/22/hollande-then-sarkozy-rematch-6-may/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/22/hollande-then-sarkozy-rematch-6-may/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:20:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69311 GenevaLunch.com Estimates show Hollande with 28-28.8 %, Sarkozy with 26.2-27% Le Pen’s strength a surprise, outdoing her father with 18.5-20% GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France was neatly divided Sunday night 22 April by its voters’ leanings, with Socialist Francois Hollande giving the left a tidy lead, taking 28.8 percent in a first round of voting for president [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/22/hollande-then-sarkozy-rematch-6-may/feed/ 0 French presidential election: voters prepare to shrink numbershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/19/french-presidential-election-voters-prepare-to-shrink-numbers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/19/french-presidential-election-voters-prepare-to-shrink-numbers/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:09:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69220 GenevaLunch.com Will France re-elect Sarkozy? ©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 Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The French go to the polls Sunday 22 April in a first [...]

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