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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
Employees of the Ford factory in Blanquefort (33)
demonstrated in November against the possible plan of the
American car manufacturer to close the site in 2010.
Police estimate that more than one thousand people
assembled in the town, brandishing banners which read ‘Ford
in danger, investment = employment’.
The Socialist mayor Vincent Feltesse announced his
support to the some 2,500 employees who might find
themselves out of a job.
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
Luxury food company
Labeyrie, based at
Saint-Geours-de-
Maremne in the Landes, has
abandoned its experimental
sales of halal foie gras.
Labeyrie processes
13,000 tons of fish and duckbased
products every year
and has a 26% share of the
foie gras market.
Wanting to exploit the
huge potential Muslim
market, both in France and
abroad, 2006 saw the launch
of halal-certified foie gras,
by the Grande Mosque of
Lyon. From the start, the sale
of halal foie gras proved to
be a contentious issue. The
payment by Labeyrie of a fee
to get the product certified
was heavily criticised by far
right and anti-Islamic groups
who claimed that it was, in
effect, funding Islamic
worship and Mosques to be
built.
With calls for a boycott
of all Labeyrie products, the
protest was widely covered
in the press.
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
The Lot-et-Garonne is
blessed with an
extensive network of
waterways, once used in
commercial transport but
which had been abandoned
earlier this century. In 1991,
the conseil général
recognised their new
significance in view of the
growing interest in riverborne
tourism, and began an
extensive programme of
restoring them to be
navigable.
They began with the river
Baïse, which has 16 locks
over a stretch of 45km and is
now entirely given over to
tourism. Then came the
Garonne Canal (87km, 16
locks), which connects with
the Baïse through the double
lock at Buzet, and also the
4.5km of the Garonne in the
département that still needed
restoring. The last task was
to tackle the Lot: first of all
the section downstream of
Villeneuve-sur-Lot to the
Garonne confluence, then
working upstream to the
borders of the Lot
département. Up until this
year, 72km of the Lot had
been restored, with seven
locks, making some 200km
of navigable routes for the
Lot-et-Garonne, about 18%
of the river network in southwest
France.
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A law passed in 2004, due to come into full effect at the end of 2007, will end exemptions for seniors and low-income earners from paying their TV licence (redevance audiovisuelle). Instead they will benefit from a 50% discount until the end of 2009.
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
The Dordogne département has increasing numbers of
British residents, some living here permanently, others with
a second home. They are all welcome. We are delighted to
have them and to share their culture, dynamism and sense
of humour.
The integration of the British community in this
traditionally hospitable département has largely gone
smoothly, under the principles of European citizenship. The
Trésorerie Générale de la Dordogne recommends that these
British neighbours make an extra effort to complete their
integration by conforming fiscally speaking. While the
permanent residents normally pay their taxes regularly, the
same cannot be said for a large number of holiday-home
owners. Despite an awareness and information campaign in
2006, many ‘forget’ to pay their local taxes despite the
reminder letters sent out to them. We invite them to fulfil
their fiscal duty, as their neighbours have to do if they live
here, whether they are French, European or from elsewhere.
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