Who should pay for culture? France has long supported hefty state subsidies, like boosting filmmakers’ budgets and paying artists unemployment benefits. Now in the digital age, France is adjusting its approach.
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Germany’s foreign minister is no longer ruling out that the country could supply weapons to the Syrian opposition, he told a daily newspaper on Friday. The move could free the way for lifting the EU embargo.
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More than four years after the financial crisis, one of the top figures behind the Bush administrationâs sweeping rescue plan is considering a return to government service. Running for office in California.
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On Friday, after more signs of financial stress at PSA Peugeot Citroën, Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac said the government was considering its options, including taking a stake in the carmaker through France’s strategic investment fund.
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The US is considering a funnel of substantive elements of the Doha Climate Summit away from the UN framework and into the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a platform of the world’s largest CO2 emitters, EurActiv has learned.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday said the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared “political”, accusing Britain of double standards over his extradition order to Sweden on sex crime accusations.
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Quote; “We cannot allow al-Qaida to sit in an ungoverned space and have a sanctuary and impunity”
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As a last resort to fight soaring food prices, a top Iranian official has proposed a ban on images of people eating chicken on television
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Greek political leaders will get yet another chance Tuesday to try to break a weeklong political impasse and avert fresh elections, this time to explore the possibility of forming a technocrat government after efforts for a political coalition failed.
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Total SA, Europe’s third-largest energy company, may join a pipeline to carry Caspian natural gas across Turkey as the European Union seeks to cut dependence on Russian fuel.
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