French press review
The French media are having trouble leaving the Strauss-Kahn affair alone as the former head of the International Monetary Fund faces a crucial week over charegs of alleged sexual assault.
Dominique Strauss-Khan continues to make headlines in France. Aujourd’hui en France headlines: “The Week When Anything Could Happen.”
The questions on everyone’s mind are, will he be cleared of the sexual assault charges? Will he come back to France? Will he run for President?
The question whether or not the former IMF chief could return to France’s political scene is definitely preoccupying France’s Socialist Party.
That’s the headline in Le Figaro this morning. The case is forcing Socialist candidates to revise their campaign strategies. They face a stark choice - support him, or not, campaign on his territory, or don’t.
One thing socialist candidates seem to agree on is that they will not hold off on the party primaries to see if Strauss-Kahn does make a comeback.
Le Parisien takes a look at an interesting contraption: a garbage-vacuum.
The article in on an apartment building in Barcelona, a city of too many trash cans. But in this building, residents throw their waste down a shaft. The trash is then vacuumed to a container some 2 km away, where it is collected by a dump truck.
Apparently the concept is of growing interest to French companies.
And last but not least, Le Figaro asks a very important question: Could Finnish men be the ideal husbands? The Finnish are world bride carrying champions for the third year in a row.
The winner carried his partner upside down (her legs wrapped around his neck) some 253 meters, jumping over two hedges and crossing a river without drowning her. The prize was a beer equal in weight to the person he was carrying.
The questions on everyone’s mind are, will he be cleared of the sexual assault charges? Will he come back to France? Will he run for President?
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The question whether or not the former IMF chief could return to France’s political scene is definitely preoccupying France’s Socialist Party.
That’s the headline in Le Figaro this morning. The case is forcing Socialist candidates to revise their campaign strategies. They face a stark choice - support him, or not, campaign on his territory, or don’t.
One thing socialist candidates seem to agree on is that they will not hold off on the party primaries to see if Strauss-Kahn does make a comeback.
Le Parisien takes a look at an interesting contraption: a garbage-vacuum.
The article in on an apartment building in Barcelona, a city of too many trash cans. But in this building, residents throw their waste down a shaft. The trash is then vacuumed to a container some 2 km away, where it is collected by a dump truck.
Apparently the concept is of growing interest to French companies.
And last but not least, Le Figaro asks a very important question: Could Finnish men be the ideal husbands? The Finnish are world bride carrying champions for the third year in a row.
The winner carried his partner upside down (her legs wrapped around his neck) some 253 meters, jumping over two hedges and crossing a river without drowning her. The prize was a beer equal in weight to the person he was carrying.
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