The French parliament has become the first to vote for a ban on a controversial new technique for extracting natural gas, amid concerns about environmental pollution.
With leaders of the UK, the US and France calling on Colonel Gaddafi to step down, a British Conservative MP wants a recall of parliament amid fears that Nato is set on regime change in Libya.
The leaders of Britain, France and the United States vow to continue the military campaign in Libya until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi “goes, and goes for good.”
President Alassane Ouattara’s history in the government of Ivory Coast is marked by financial questions and “the bleeding of Africa”, a leading Ivorian academic tells Channel 4 News.
World leaders are meeting in London to discuss the future of Libya without Muammar Gaddafi.
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David Cameron says he has won the backing of France and Germany for a freeze in the European Union budget from 2013 to 2020.
David Cameron wins support from fellow European leaders to restrict a planned increase in the EU’s budget to less than three per cent. Cathy Newman is in Brussels.
More than 2,500 petrol stations run dry and France’s main airport could soon be forced to close as strikes and protests against President Sarkozy’s pension reforms continue for the eighth day running.
Jon Snow
For the last years of Labour’s time in power, bilateral summits between France and Britain became a commonplace. At the last one between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French offered a deal to share aspects of their nuclear deterrent – submarine patrols that would reduce the need to have so many Trident Subs, and…
French workers take to the streets over pension reform but a bottle of champagne is on President Sarkozy holding his nerve says Lindsey Hilsum.
The wheels of justice turn slowly, they say. And sometimes they don’t turn at all, until something or someone sends them spinning.
Jon Snow
Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy put aside old rivalries to set out a joint vision for a stronger economic future, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters. The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8…
Jon Snow
I’m sitting the Locarno room at the Foreign Office waiting with 200 other hacks for the Obama/Brown press conference, and even in this august circumstance there’s an air of a palpable expectation. Not of course in terms of economic breakthrough but the mere arrival of The Man.