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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Goncourt prize winner Marie MDiaye says politician's call for her to tone down criticism of Sarkozy is 'grotesque' The winner of this year's Goncourt prize has spoken out against an MP's "grotesque" calls for her to tone down her criticisms of the French government. In an interview with Libération, the French-Senegalese novelist Marie NDiaye expressed contempt for Éric Raoult's...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Pandering to rightwing fears of immigration to France will only obscure the real issues of poverty, racism and inequality Announcing plans for a debate on national identity , France's immigration minister, Eric Besson, underlined the thinking behind the project. "We should never have abandoned to the Front National (FN) a certain number of values that belong to our Republican heritage,"...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
France's minister of immigration and national identity, Eric Besson (centre-left), has launched a debate on French national identity. The opposition, however, has denounced the move as a purely political exercise ahead of March regional elections.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Immigration Minister Eric Besson has kicked off a three-month countrywide debate on France's "national identity", a move polls say is backed by sixty percent of French voters.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Flight takes off from Paris as joint immigration crackdown prompts anger in France A British-chartered plane took off from Paris today, returning Afghan migrants to their home country in a joint immigration crackdown which has prompted criticism in France. The plane took off from Charles de Gaulle airport carrying three Afghan men "back to their country of origin", France's immigration minister,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Paris - France has flown three Afghan citizens, who were illegally on French soil, to the Afghan capital Kabul, Immigration Minister Eric Besson said Wednesday. The flight, made jointly with British authorities, left Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport...
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Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
really, it was all a mix-up over the word “caucasian” French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand won the backing of fellow politicians on Sunday against calls for his resignation for having written about paying young male prostitutes in Thailand. Government spokesman Luc Chatel, Immigration Minister Eric Besson and Left Party founder Jean-Luc Melenchon spoke out in support of the nephew...
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Yes, you heard that right — France bulldozes an illegal Muslim camp. CALAIS, France ( AP ) — French police razed a squalid camp used by illegal immigrants in scrubland near the English Channel port of Calais on Tuesday, using backhoes and buzz saws to clear away the precarious dwellings of a fragile population, mostly Afghan minors, who were led away stunned and sometimes sobbing. The destruction...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Oh well, another leaders bites the dust... In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy's election-winning program of toughness, law, order and restraint came crashing to a halt this week with a sudden and almost touching realization that happiness is not just a matter of money and earnings, but of the nature and quality of the people around you. This was, on one hand, the conclusion of Mr. Sarkozy's blue-ribbon...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Paris - French Immigration Minister Eric Besson has urged the European Union to move more aggressively against illegal immigration by conducting more operations in the Mediterranean Sea. In a statement issued Friday, his ministry said Besson wrote a ...
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
France has said it intends to close the camp in Calais known as "the jungle", where migrants gather to try to reach the UK, BBC reported. Immigration Minister Eric Besson told French television that the illegal gathering of tents and shelters should close imminently. The jungle has replaced official camps like Sangatte as a gathering point. ...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
French civil rights groups have welcomed a decision by French Immigration Minister Eric Besson (pictured) to scrap a controversial measure requiring DNA tests for residency-seekers wishing to reunite with their families in France.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Warrants for the use of DNA tests in visa applications will not be signed, French Immigration Minister Eric Besson (pictured) has told a radio station. Evoking a lack of resources, the minister called for the delay of the law's implementation.
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
French Immigration Minister, Eric Besson, launched Tuesday strong criticism towards a local gendarme unit that stamped Bulgarian and Romanian Roma. The incident happened on August 28 at the Roma camps in d'Ormoy and Villabé in Esonne. Over hundreds of Roma were stamped to facilitate identification control so that the police did not have to check the same person twice....
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squattercity (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Just what does it mean to call an eviction ‘an open and first rate operation’? That's the question I'd ask French Immigration Minister Eric Besson who told The Daily Mail that the government will destroy "the jungle," an improvised shantytown of refugees near Calais. The French government seems to be demonizing the refugees. The tragic fact that an Afghan people smuggler raped...
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