The foreigners who helped make France and just how bad is the French debt crisis?
Talking France2 Okt 2024

The foreigners who helped make France and just how bad is the French debt crisis?

Up for discussion this week is the French PM's key policy speech and why it sounded like a wedding speech by a bride's grandfather. Plus, does the PM have a chance of getting anything done and will the gaping hole in the country's money box spell doom for us all here in France?


On a more positive note we'll put France's interior minister to rights by introducing you to some foreign immigrants who really did help make France the country it is today.


We'll also introduce you to some dinosaurs that made Charente in south western France their home and explore whether a solution has been found to boost public transport in rural France.


And finally French kissing is a subject some of us are experts on here at The Local so we will find out whether the covid pandemic killed off la bise - the french greeting kiss of course.


Host Ben McPartland is joined by the team at The Local France, Editor Emma Pearson, journalist Gen Mansfield and politics and rural France expert John Lichfield.



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