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France: it’s official – Francois Hollande is president! (update)

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:04:49 +0000

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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French Left ponders Aubry, Holland choice

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:47:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com 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 Royal failed to attract as many voters as Hollande, the former party chairman who received 39 percent of the vote, and the mayor of Lille and former French [...]

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Muehleberg nuclear station latest protest site

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:17:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss anti-nuclear groups are continuing to call for an end to nuclear power plants, with the latest in a series of peaceful protests taking place Tuesday 26 April at Muehleberg. An estimated 500 people formed a human chain around the centre from 07:00 to 08:30, but workers were allowed to enter [...]

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Canton Geneva’s executive council shifts right

Sean Ecker — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:05:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 15:40 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cantonal elections in Geneva for the executive council, the Conseil d’état, confirmed a rightward shift in the political mood, Sunday 15 November. The centre-right alliance won four of the seven seats, while the centre-left won three. Two women are on the council, and extremists on either side of the [...]

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Merkel’s win spells end for “grand coalition” in German government

Sean Ecker — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:40:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU centre-right bloc polled almost 34 percent in the German general election Sunday 27 September while her government coalition partners, the centre-left socialist party, SPD, obtained their worst results since the Second World War, with 23.4 percent. The results allow Merkel to ditch the socialists and open talks with the business-friendly [...]

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Geneva’s Socialists in bid to end lump sum tax breaks

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:53:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The Socialist Party in Geneva has submitted a proposal that would change the canton’s tax laws by abolishing lump sum tax agreements for very wealthy foreigners. Geneva currently has some 650 foreign residents who benefit from the lump sum break, worth CHF70 million a year in revenue for the [...]

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France’s Socialists, or a soap opera?

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:45:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The margin by which Martine Aubry defeated Ségolène Royal to lead the Socialist Party in France was so tiny, 0.04%, that the party’s already badly divided leadership has been thrown into turmoil, and “it is now being ridiculed for its personal enmities and rivalries, making it seem less a serious political alternative than an afternoon [...]

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