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Milk strike could hit shop supplies

FRESH dairy could start to disappear from supermarket shelves early next week after 30,000 French milk producers walked out on strike.

Independent milk producers? association APLI has called the str…

Interior Minister racism furore

OPPOSITION MPs have called for the resignation of Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux after he was caught on video making remarks about a man’s race during an UMP Party event in the south-west.

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Doubt and anger over carbon tax

THE ANNONCEMENT that taxe carbone will be set at ?17 a tonne has been met with strong criticism on how much it will cost to enforce and whether it will work.

The price of a litre of petrol will rise…

?500 note may go in fraud law

THE ?500 note should be scrapped to cut down on fraud, MPs have suggested.

The measure is one of 30 in a report by a cross-party group of MPs, presented to the National Assembly today.

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Report finds 2,000 women wear burqa

ABOUT 2,000 women in France wear full Muslim dress in public according to the Interior Ministry ? six times more than police had estimated.

The figures are contained in a confidential report on the …

Income tax cut to offset eco charge

HOUSEHOLDS could benefit from a cut in income tax to compensate for a new levy on carbon emissions from next year.

Prime Minister François Fillon said a tax reduction was ?one of the preferred opti…

?1,000 tax on each mobile phone mast

MOBILE phone antennae and electricity pylons may be taxed as the government looks for ways to boost its budget after the business-based taxe professionnelle is scrapped.

Almost 50,000 phone masts acr…

Unions call for strikes in October

SIX unions are calling for a day of protest action on October 7.

The move is in connection with a worldwide day of action for ?decent work,? being called for by the International Trade Union Confed…

150,000 could be dodging French tax

TAX-PAYERS in France who have bank accounts in other countries have been urged to come clean about them to the tax authorities.

Budget minister Eric Woerth believes between 100,000 and 150,000 people…

VAT-cut restaurant attacked by rivals

A RESTAURANT owner claims his rivals subjected him to a campaign of bullying for passing a VAT cut on to his customers.

Philippe Brusa, who runs a sushi restaurant in Thonon-les-Bains in the Haute-Sa…