France Welcomes Socialist Francois Hollande as President

Francois Hollande

For someone with no experience in national governance, Francois Hollande’s win in the French presidential elections on May 6, 2012 is nothing short of remarkable. The first Socialist to have earned the Presidential title since Francois Mitterrand (1988), Hollande ousted Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.63%. Supporters of Hollande celebrated over at the Place de la [...]

Written on 07 May 2012 by Aimee
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France.fr : the 6 million dollars Website

France.fr

France.fr, international showcase website of the country du camembert on the Internet, will once again have a new design, technical changes and new editorial content. For 800,000 euros. (about 1.2 million dollars US) Medias have already talked a lot about this site on the web since its delayed controversial launch in the summer of 2010 (total cost of [...]

Written on 02 Sep 2011 by Vincent Abry
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French press wants its own Google News

The French Press has announced through its national daily press trade union that it is going to create its own search engine for web news. The objective is actually to quit from Google News France. The new website will be launched before the end of the year and will propose a billed service to the [...]

Written on 02 Aug 2010 by Rose
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France.fr: Discover France again

france

The internet website France.fr was launched on the National Festival of 14th July 2010. Being the pride of all the French people, this website wishes to be an international online resource for this country. It is also for all these 75 millions of tourists who target France as their holiday destination each year. France.fr will [...]

Written on 27 July 2010 by Rose