The journalist Marc Epstein explains that France 24 "will have the particularity of expressing itself in two languages: Its French and English Newsrooms will work alongside one another. A third canal, in Arabic, has been announced for summer, 2007. Desired by the French government, this little bit of news has managed to allow the channel's image of 'Chirac TV' to be forgotten, thanks to structures that should, in principal, protect it from potential pressure. ... But above all the channel seems threatened by a sort of schizophrenia, for its creators have thought up an identical programme and news editions in the languages of Molière and Shakespeare, to be broadcast simultaneously. Other than doubled distribution costs, this duality will pose a fundamental problem. Is the candidacy of François Bayrou [French socialist MP], or Ségolène Royal's trip to the Middle East really going to be of great interest to the non-French-speaking 'Opinion Leaders' That France 24 claims to be aiming at?" (07/12/2006)

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For Michael Mönninger, the proud kickoff of France24 comes way too late, and rather poorly outfitted at that. "CNN has been around more than 20 years, and even European competitors like BBC World and Deutsche Welle TV, which came into being in the early 90s, are two to three times larger. Add to that half a dozen new foreign broadcasters, in Latin America, Arab countries, Russia and China. All of them are putting huge sums into winning over an international audience. Significantly, these new channels are almost without exception publicly financed state broadcasters. With the triumphant march of capitalism, a global media industry has arisen with the goal of gaining influence more than money.... A Cold War of images has broken out, which seeks to conquer not territory, but hearts and minds." (07/12/2006)

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Paris correspondent Christian Müller thinks France has launched its TV news programme primarily to break a supposed "Anglo-Saxon monopoly" on the airwaves. "Officially, France 24 is not to be the voice of France but rather 'a French view' of world events. But the background, structure and financing of the entire project invite scepticism. Chirac already has said that the broadcaster's mandate is to express 'France's values and vision of the world.' Unbidden memories pop up of the state origins of French TV. Apparently, many people are haunted by the belief that CNN or Fox News reflect America's official world view." (07/12/2006)

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"Last night ('hier soir') France ('La Fronns') launched a 24-hour bilingual news channel ... to counter what it sees as the current Anglo-Saxon bias of the traditional international TV news channels, such as CNN and BBC World", notes Joe Joseph with a touch of provocative British humour. "But is there an international audience hungry to see the world through French eyes ...? Or to unravel the mysteries of French life ... or France's passion for viewing all major national events through the prism of either its philosophers ... or else through Johnny Halliday ... . France 24 is basically a TV channel for a nation that is annoyed that it has failed to persuade the rest of the world to speak French rather than English." (07/12/2006)

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In his book 'Saturday', the British writer Ian McEwan refers to the major demonstrations that took place in London in 2003 in protest against military intervention in Iraq. In an interview with Gilles Anquetil and François Armanet, he explains why he felt sceptic at the time. "I was very uncomfortable at the time to see this movement of opposition to the war largely influenced by the Muslim Association of Britain, which I despise for having condemned Salman Rushdie and calling for punishment of apostates. This, for me, is where the rift lies: the question of the Islamic veil is minor compared with that of apostasy. The right to give up one's religion, to loose faith is one of our values. To oppose this is to challenge the bedrock of our society. ... The 'Rushdie Case' was the first chapter of what is happening to us. The left tends to show indulgence towards Islam in the hope of forming a common cause against the United States. We are currently seeing small left-wing groups offering separate prayer rooms for men and women! The world is being turned upside-down... " (07/12/2006)

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The French philosopher pays a vibrant homage to the Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, killed in Moscow, on October 7th. He refuses to think that she died for nothing. "Anna sounded the alarm bell in order to make the democratic world aware and react. ... She died for us, westerners who were not capable of reading and protecting her. We are that 'nothing' that Anna gave her life up for. She was sensitive to the pain of the oppressed, refused corruption and remained glacial in the face of compromise. Anna was and remains a beacon. The desire for truth at all costs, came before laurels, money or her career. Last spring, when I met her for the first time, she said to me, 'If they kill me, don't look beyond the Kremlin'. On November 23rd, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko [former Russian spy killed in London] whispered in a last breath, 'The bastards got me, but they won't get everybody'. That is up to us." (07/12/2006)

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More than 16 years after the end of Communism, Romanians are getting a look at the work of the infamous 'Securitate'. Some 1.3 million files of the secret police will be opened gradually. Vladimir Tismaneanu, appointed by Romanian President Traian Basescu last April to head the commission for investigating the communist dictatorship in Romania, pleads for a clear disclosure of secret police collaborators. "We are waging a war against amnesia, and it's the right thing to do," says Tismaneanu, who is also professor of politics at the University of Maryland in the USA. "Anyone who calls this a witch hunt just does not get it. 'Witches' were innocent women who were denounced, tortured and often murdered using insane rituals. But secret service informers worked actively for an evil cause... It is high time to open the files of all today's powerful figures and politicians. We need total clarity and the whole truth. The net of lies that we are dealing with today is closing in... Such an atmosphere of ambiguity nourishes the growth of populism and other demagogical authoritarianisms." (07/12/2006)

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An Italian parliamentary commission announced on Wednesday, December 6th, that it is going to double-check certain votes of last April's legislative elections, that gave a short victory to the Romano Prodi coalition. For the editorialist Edmondo Berselli, this decision translates a certain political uneasiness. "Eight months have gone by since the elections. We have a government that continues to go about its business and is having a go at finance laws. What, therefore, is the significance of the decision taken by the Senate's electoral commission to proceed with a recount in seven regions of the null, void or contested votes? For the time being, the only certainty is paradoxically that there is a doubt hanging over the electoral results of last April 9th and 10th. For the first time in the history of the Italian republic, there is a crack in the hitherto indisputable fundamental mechanism of public life". (07/12/2006)

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After the Nato summit meeting in Riga, Voldemars Hermanis senses a kind of Nato-weariness among some west Balkan states, in Georgia and especially the Ukraine. "When George Bush spoke in the University of Riga auditorium, he named Croatia, Macedonia and Albania as the first states to be considered for Nato membership. Let us not forget: For many years, these very countries were, together with us, part of the so-called Group of Ten from Vilnius. And the US President also clearly named the Ukraine as a candidate, if it wishes to join. With entry to the world's most powerful military and political alliance, there is no division between good and evil. The main condition is and remains a country's pro-active approach." (07/12/2006)

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"The fact that there have been so many tactical defeats for the Greek-Cypriot side suggests that there is a problem with strategy", considers the journalist G.G. de Lastic who judges the partial freeze on Turkish EU negotiations too soft. "Indeed, it seems that the established dogma, according to which Turkey's eventual accession to the EU would be in the interest of Greece and Turkey, no longer has any bearing on reality. And if, in the beginning, one could excuse Turkey for being politically naive, this is no longer viable. Turkey is exploiting Greek and Cypriot concessions in order to acquire a de facto legitimization of its stance on the Cyprus problem and Greek-Turkish relations, now within the context of the European Union. Instead of 'Europeanizing' its stance on Greece and Cyprus, EU candidate state Turkey is seeking to get Europe's backing for its longstanding intransigent stance." (06/12/2006)

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In an article published by the weekly, the Flemish socialist senator of Turkish origin, Fatma Pehlivan, considers that "the European Union has got itself into trouble through its discussions with Turkey. By dint of imposing criteria that is different compared to other country candidates, the EU has finally turned Turkish public opinion completely against Europe. Two years ago, 60% of Turks were sincerely and euphorically in favour of accession. Only a little minority was opposed to it. The EU's approach has turned things around. Even the average Turkish citizen is wondering why the European Union is behaving in a way that is systematically stricter with Turkey than with other countries. Did Turkey and Romania have to answer the same demands to join the Union?" (07/12/2006)

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Film director Wim Wenders wants to return to Germany from the USA. He tells Michal Prochazka: "I've said all I wanted to say about America in my films. Now I want to become reacquainted with my homeland, which has changed a lot in recent years. Today I know more about Utah than about Saxony. I'm interested, for example, in the legends and fairytales from the Ore Mountains. But most of all I want to understand the new conditions under which Germany lives today. I myself come from a middle class background. And that hardly exists any more today. Instead, the very rich class is growing, and there is an army of increasingly poor people. That worries me, and I want to try to express it through film." (07/12/2006)

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British director Ken Loach tells Barbara Hollender that the most interesting films are those "that show the workings of history. Audiences can identify with current heroes, or at least understand them. The other films, ones that show images of the past, often force you to rethink your own judgments, to re-evaluate what you always thought to be true. And that is not pleasant. But I believe you should recount the past and thereby rescue it from oblivion. Because without it, there is no present." (07/12/2006)

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"The Musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels is preparing the opening of an exhibition next summer that will draw a parallel between the history of European football and that of Europe's political integration", announces the progressive daily. "'Only a game?', is the title of the exhibition which aims to stress Europe's importance through the stars of the game. ... Visitors will be able to rediscover the most important sporting and political moments in the history of Europe, from the fall of the Berlin wall (and its consequences on football in Eastern Europe) to the Bosman Ruling in the 1990s that was to revolutionise the world of football [by putting and end to nationality quotas that limited the number of foreign players per club]". (07/12/2006)

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The fight over Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague is going through a new phase. Last year a court declared the cathedral to be the property of the Catholic Church. But official circles don't want to accept this. Martina Klapalova reports on a new petition going around in Prague. More than 15,000 people have joined in pressing the Parliament to oppose the court decision. Historian Dusan Trestik writes: "The conflict shows that the cathedral is an important symbol for us. In Bohemian countries, such a structure is considered first and foremost a national monument, and only then a church. And that is something that, for example, the Poles have never understood: for them, a church is a church. But we live in an atheist state." (07/12/2006)

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