By Cicero’s Home Affairs correspondent Dozens detained in Britain refuse food ahead of forced returns to FranceAround 30 asylum seekers held in UK immigration detention centres have begun a hunger strike in protest at plans to deport them to France … Continue reading Asylum Seekers Launch Hunger Strike Over UK-France Removal Scheme
Paris — Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a long-running case over alleged campaign funds from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The … Continue reading Sarkozy Jailed for Five Years Over Gaddafi Funding Case
The finance ministers meeting today at the G20 held in Moscow have today pledged to ensure that multinational companies will no longer be able shifting profits from a home country to pay less tax elsewhere – the aim is to prevent tax avoidance by large companies. France, Britain and Germany have been the main proponents seeking radical changes to existing european legal loopholes and members of these countries also promised to refrain devaluing their currencies to gain economic advantage; which could cause a “currency war”. The fears had been sparked by Japan’s recent policies, which have driven down the value of the yen, aiding its exporters. … Continue reading G20 To Tackle Tax Avoidance
The major E3+3 countries of the world (including the UK, US, China, France, Germany and Russia) will be meeting today in Instanbul with the Iranian Government once again to discuss and have an offer of an assurance over any proposed nuclear programme that Iran may be conducting. This follows a meeting of the E3+3 at the UN General Assembly in September 2009. At that meeting Iran’s nuclear programme was found a matter of concern to the E3+3 countries as they said in their statement – those talks basically wanted to see Iran to implement all measures required by the IAEA … Continue reading E3+3 Talks on Iran
CRACK open the Bolly sweetie darlings, Jennifer Saunders has confirmed she is going to make Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. The comedy was one of the biggest successes on the BBC this Christmas, pulling in nine million viewers with another episode … Continue reading A Movie! Sweetie, Darling …
