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Libération

http://www.liberation.fr

Paris
Language : French
Circulation : 130,456

http://www.liberation.fr
Language : French

Founded in 1973 under the aegis of Jean-Paul Sartre, Libération has consistently cultivated an impertinent, left-wing image. It accords a great deal of space to photographs. Following a period of financial vicissitude, 40% of its capital was bought by Édouard de Rothschild in 2005, triggering the departure of several famous journalists, notably Florence Aubenas, the foreign correspondent held hostage in Iraq for several months in 2005; film critic Antoine de Baecque and writer Jean Hatzfeld.

Liberation.fr embodies the bi-media concept: print edition content is updated several times daily and combined with visual and audio content. Set up in 2007, Libélabo experiments with sound and visual effects on the fringes of the news.

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Romania | Slow to write a new chapter

In the run-up to elections on 6 December, Romanian presidential campaigns have focused on issues of corruption and the legacy of the communist state, concerns which seem very remote when viewed from abroad. Writer Julia Kristeva argues that only the country's culture is now sustaining the bond with Europe.

Published on 04 Dec 2009 | Libération

Drugs | Spice, a variety of legal high

Sold on the Web and in “smartshops” as herbs or incense, Spice is catching on among cannabis enthusiasts. It contains synthetic cannabinoids, which worries the European health watchdogs. But substances of this sort are difficult to detect and, consequently, to prohibit, notes Libération.

Published on 01 Oct 2009 | Libération

Epidemic | Don't make a recession out of swine flu

National governments and international organisations are worried about the human and economic impact of the spread of the H1N1 virus. However, it is not the pandemic itself that is most likely to disrupt whole societies, but individual behaviours engendered by the ensuing panic, explains economist Pierre-Yves Geoffard.

Published on 21 Jul 2009 | Libération

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One of the most consistently informative and entertaining blogs about the European Union has to be Jean Quatremer’s Coulisses de Bruxelles.

Losing Angela in translation

When presseurop.eu was launched in May last year, one of its guiding mottos was Umberto Eco’s “The future of Europe is translation.” But sometimes I’m inclined to think that the future of Europe is lost in translation. I recently checked a statement by Angela Merkel concerning the CD-rom nabbed by HSBC supergrass Hervé Falciani containing data on Germans who have siphoned off their money to Switzerland in order to avoid taxes back home.

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