• In labour-intensive sectors, France has become highly automated, and many new jobs are temporary.

    ECONOMIST: Why France's unemployment is proving so intractable

  • She has become best known outside France for her ardent defence of a policy to cut the working week to 35 hours the second stage of which she has just introduced which has enraged many employers.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • With his pace and a good eye for goal, Anelka has the talent to become France's regular striker - but he must shrug off his suspect temperament if he wants to become a world class performer.

    BBC: Nicolas Anelka

  • Almost without anyone noticing, France has become an even more state-dominated economy than it was 30 years ago, with government spending of nearly 60% of GDP and a tendency to raise taxes first, and talk about spending cuts a lot later.

    BBC: Who will dictate Europe's future?

  • Mr Bove, who has become a folk hero in France for his crusade against globalisation, told the court that the attack was aimed at highlighting the injustices of the world trading system.

    BBC: France's farm crusader jailed

  • Many in France feel the EU has become too big, too open, too liberal and too English-speaking.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • One of the obvious obstacles to Henri's ambition to become king was that France already has a sort of monarch, although he is called a president.

    ECONOMIST: Henri d��Orl��ans

  • In addition to helping create the single market, it has been one of the nations that pushed for the oil embargo on Iran and tough sanctions on Syria, and it has become a key backer in recent days of France's military action in Mali, he said.

    CNN: Cameron: We must focus on trade, taxes, transparency

  • Edinburgh-based Cupid has become one of the largest online dating businesses in France, after buying a French firm whose brands include amour.com.

    BBC: couple on mountain holding hands

  • France has been shaken by what has become known as l'affaire d'Outreau.

    ECONOMIST: The French judicial system

  • In France and Germany, this problem has become acute.

    ECONOMIST: Room for improvement

  • Propelled by its need to secure oil, natural gas and mineral resources to maintain its double-digit economic growth, China has become Africa's third-largest trading partner, behind only France and the United States.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An African "Marshall Plan"

  • Less than six months before France's presidential election, the effort to curb crime in Marseille has become political.

    ECONOMIST: Crime in southern France

  • Increasingly that has become the practice in a number of countries, particularly in the important patent countries of France, Germany, Holland and England and Wales.

    FORBES: Should Apple Obey The Courts?

  • Mr Davidson told Today that Britain did not want to become like France, where far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has just won enough votes to take on Jacques Chirac to become the country's president.

    BBC: Labour pro-euro MPs in new campaign

  • In France, reusable bags now account for half of the market, and San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on disposable bags.

    CNN: Fighting the tide of plastic bags in a world awash with waste

  • After working with French financial regulators, Bitcoin-Central has hammered out a deal with French payment processor Acoba and France's Credit Mutuel bank to become a payment service provider, which allows it to function much like a bank.

    ENGADGET: Bitcoin-Central becomes first Bitcoin exchange licensed to operate like a bank

  • Strikingly, hostility to the European project has increased markedly in several other countries (Sweden, Austria and now even France) that have subsequently become big net contributors.

    ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe

  • With both elected and appointed governments in Italy, Spain and France charged with a strict goal of deficit reduction, support for solar and wind projects has become an easy target for spending cuts.

    FORBES: Green Energy's Crisis of Confidence in the Mediterranean

  • Taxation for the rich has become a hot campaign issue, with tax advisers in neighbouring Switzerland saying that higher taxes for the wealthy in France could spark an exodus, Reuters news agency reports.

    BBC: French election: Hollande wants 75% tax on top earners

  • Mr Klesch has, for example, become a thorn in the side of Eurotunnel, which operates the Channel tunnel between Britain and France, making doom-laden pronouncements about the company's prospects and criticising the financial restructuring agreed on by its 200-plus banks.

    ECONOMIST: Dealing in duds

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