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If you are in Paris on 15th July you will find thousands of low cost rental bikes available at bicycle stations which will be scattered around the capitol.
This new programme is set to cut traffic congestion, reduce pollution, improve parking, improve the city's image as a greener, quieter and less stressful place.
A three day workshop has been arranged by Air France to improve the integration of disabled personnel into the company.
Various mediums are to be used to make these improvements such as photographs, theatre, the use of wheelchairs and an information booklet.
For three days some of the 4,500 personnel of the company both administration staff and flight personnel will be able to discover how the company can help disabled people become valuable members of the company’s staff.
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Visiting Burgundy this April? Looking for places to go or things to do? Have a look at the What's On? for April and you should find something for everyone.
A new era has opened on France's super fast train network, TGV, which will see trains travelling at speeds of up to 320 kph (200 mph.) between Paris and Strasbourg cutting the travelling time between the two cities to 2h 20m. at a cost of around €241 million.
France's Transport minister, Dominique Perben, made the inaugural journey along with French business leaders and guests aboard the new TGV-Est before attending a lavish evening ceremony.
As part of a show broadcast on national television, around 3000 torches were due to be lit in a wave along the entire 300 kilometres of track.
During the 'National Disability Week,’ arranged by APF (Association paralysés de France' the subject of integration of disabled people in the work place was high on the agenda.
Jean- Christophe Parisot, a new ministerial delegate in the ministry of Employment and Disability Integration, is the first disabled person (a tetraplegic due to myopathy) to become a political scientist and has at hand the figures relating to the number of disabled people employed by the ministry. Of the 40,000 disabled people employed, 22,000 are teachers, making Education the highest employer of disabled people in France. The figures correspond to 3.17% of disabled people, whereas the law passed 11 February 2005 proposed 6%.
Did you realise that 'abricot' comes from Arabic, 'amour' from Occitan and 'chic' is used in most European languages?
From 10th to 20th March 'Semaine de la Langue Française,' organised by the ministry of Culture and Communication in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Education,
will investigate the origins and aquisition of language, its diversity and its capacity to traverse languages world wide.
More than 400,000 disabled people travel by trains in France each year and it is the objective of SNCF to improve the accessibility and services for the disabled by 2015.
The need to provide better services for the disabled has led to a new project “Access More”; a new free service that will allow people to better organise their travel.
Restructuring and falling prices in top markets, claim France Telecom, are responsible for a sharp drop in their profits for 2006.
Trading mainly under the Orange brand, the operators report a net profit of 4.14billion euros for the 12 months up to December 31st; that is a 27% drop of 1.56billion euros from 2005.
The greenhouse gas situation caused by gas emissions and energy losses were diagnosed at the end of 2006.
The results show that if the situation isn’t checked by 2020 the consumption of energy by transport will rise by 40% and residential consumption by 20%.
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With books like "French women don't get fat" the British bookshelves, we could be forgiven for thinking that obesity isn't a problem in France.
However, a report shows that 20 million French people, that is one third of the population, have problems with their weight; in 20 years the proportion of 5 to 12 year olds who are overweight that has risen 7%.
So what has gone wrong, and why do the professionals think that the French are joining other western countries by becoming alrmingly obese?
