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French adoption: ‘intercity babies’

In front | INVESTIGATION
It's in the bag (Photo: Arismoore/Flickr)

Restrictive adoption law drives French lesbian couples across Belgian and Dutch borders to be artificially inseminated

by Amandine Agic // 13/07/07

REVIEW

2 Days in Paris: 'the French are apparently perfect'

Julie Delpy’s multicultural comedy with bite, starring her parents, US actor Adam Goldberg and Germany’s Daniel Brühl, opens in French cinemas on 11 July. Reviews from both sides of the Rhein

by Nathalie Six/ Karsten Marhold // 11/07/07

NEWS
(Photo: Costra Blanca/ Flickr)

EU Parliament: attempt to block the advance of new treaty

On 11 July, approval was predicted for the motion backing the European Parliament to host the intergovernmental conference on 23 July

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 11/07/07

(Illustration: Henning Studte)

It's clear as mud that the Pope is Catholic

by anke wagner-wolff // 11/07/07

Enki Bilal and his heroine (Photo: JB)

Enki Bilal: 'My cartoons evoke a past out of step with reality'

The Czech-Bosnian cartoonist, 55, weaves between cartoons, cinema and geopolitics, taking his readers on a trip into a futuristic universe where political commitment is key

by Prune Antoine // 07/07/07

INTERVIEW
Two immigrants of north African origin at Paris' Place Concorde, after right-wing candidate Sarkozy won the May 2007 presidential elections(Photo: Charles Fred/ Flickr)

'France does not look at itself'

The latest right-wing French government has appointed three top politicans with immigrant backgrounds. But the nation’s political personnel still accounts less and less for the products of immigration, says Karim Zéribi, former advisor to French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement

by Max Disbeaux et Markus F. Gläser // 04/07/07

AGENDA

July culture vulture

Between Italian jazz and Nordic tango, Slovenian saxophone and Scottish rock, Spanish bull running and German contemporary art – check out the July issue of our Vultures for Culture calendar

by Jannik Pfister // 04/07/07

ANALYSIS
(Photo: sand/ Flickr)

Negative positive discrimination

Ethnic quotas, 'positive discrimination' – terms which often trigger teeth-grinding. French opinion usually differs from that of the other side of the Channel

by Alexis Molveau // 04/07/07

(Illustration: Henning Studte)

Monster-in-law

by Katharina Kloss // 04/07/07

ANALYSIS
French demonstrants saying: "French citicens: if you don't like immigrants, quit the country" (Photo, looking4poetry/Flickr)

How about going back to your country

The May 2007 creation of a French ministry of immigration and national identity led by Brice Hortefeux ponders paying immigrants to go back to where they came from. Multiculturalism – a European asset?

by Hanna Sankowska // 02/07/07

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