91-595: France 24 ( France vingt -quatre in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded international news television network based in Paris. Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux , the service started on 6 December 2006. It is aimed at a worldwide market and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around
182-503: A Ministry of Immigration, and National Identity for three years between 2007 and 2010, launched a controversial national dialogue on national identity and expelled thousands of Roma from illegal camps. Critics of the right-wing government denounced what they felt was a rapprochement with the controversial far-right National Front (FN). While several members of the UMP's right-wing have indicated that they would favour local alliances with
273-521: A "steering committee" of twenty members was called in with view to reform in June 2007. President Sarkozy called on Bernard Kouchner and Christine Albanel , respectively Foreign Minister and Culture Minister to reform the current system. The proposition of reform was met with concern from Belgium, Switzerland and Canada/ Québec , as the public broadcasters involved in TV5 (of which the French government holds
364-466: A 49% share whilst the three aforementioned countries hold 11% each) consider TV5 to be a promoter of the wider French-language world. Just one month after France 24's launch, TV5 renamed itself TV5Monde . As published in the Journal Officiel de la République Française of 23 January 2009, a Decree for 23 January 2009 appeared, "authorising the company France Télévisions to cede its share in
455-587: A Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (French: Union pour un mouvement populaire [ynjɔ̃ puʁ œ̃ muvmɑ̃ pɔpylɛːʁ] ; UMP [y.ɛmpe] ) was a liberal-conservative political party in France , largely inspired by the Gaullist tradition. During its existence, the UMP was one of the two major parties in French politics along with the Socialist Party (PS). In May 2015,
546-602: A cabinet reshuffle in November 2010, which disappointed centrists within and outside the UMP, François Fillon was confirmed prime minister and Alain Juppé re-joined the government. Among those who resigned from the cabinet were Bernard Kouchner , Hervé Morin and, above all, Jean-Louis Borloo . Xavier Bertrand, who re-joined the government, was replaced as general-secretary of the UMP by Jean-François Copé on 17 November 2010. The party suffered another major electoral defeat in
637-468: A governing party in off-year "mid-term" elections, and elected 29 MEPs, significantly improving on the UMP's poor result in the 2004 European election – also an off-year election. However, in the 2010 regional elections on 14 and 21 March 2010, the UMP obtained a very poor result with only 26%. While it lost Corsica, it retained Alsace but also defeated the left in La Réunion and French Guiana . In
728-455: A large international news channel in French, capable of competing with the BBC or CNN. The recent crises have shown the handicap that a country suffers, a cultural area, which doesn't possess a sufficient weight in the battle of the images and the airwaves. Let us question, in the time of terrestrial television networks, of satellite, of the internet, on our organisation in this domain, and notably in
819-688: A live and an immediate link to the mainland" After his reelection, the first reflections were engaged at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , headed by Dominique de Villepin . Various technical options were examined at the time, in an unreleased report: The subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq reassured the authorities about the project, especially in February 2003, when the American broadcasters CNN, FOX News , and MSNBC opted not to broadcast
910-479: A mediation between both candidates on 23 November, but it failed within two days. Fillon's announced "precautionary seizure" of ballots cast "to protect them from tampering or alteration" and threatened to take the matter to court. On 26 November, the party appeals commission – led by a close supporter of Copé – decided in Copé's favour and rejected Fillon's arguments. On 27 November, 72 filloniste parliamentarians in
1001-424: A new presidential vote and a modification of party statutes. The next day, Copé announced that he favoured organising a referendum the modification of party statutes and a reduction of his own term as president to two years (until November 2014); while Fillon welcomed the "consensus on the organisation of a new election" he rejected his rival's timeline and called for a new election before 2014. 'Unaligned' members of
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#17327833136481092-459: A procedure finalised on 13 February 2012. It is expected that staff from Radio France International (which includes Arabic sister-station Monte Carlo Doualiya) will move to premises currently home to France 24. Alain de Pouzilhac, president of AEF stated in Le Monde , "We have just created a French audiovisual group of international dimensions, that aspires to be powerful and ambitious; [the merger]
1183-473: A single driver in a car". He insisted that the channel be made available within France, which the members of parliament required, and which TF1 , wanting to protect its own news channel LCI , could object to. Patrick Le Lay, president of TF1, gave his blessing for the channel to be broadcast domestically and wished the direction of the channel to alternate every six months between the two parties, and eventually
1274-442: A strong lead in polls of UMP 'sympathizers' (as opposed to actual members, who would be the only eligible voters) and was backed by most UMP parliamentarians while Copé claimed he was the candidate of party activists rather than party 'barons'. However, Copé remained as secretary-general and retained control of the party machinery. While Fillon's campaign was regarded as more consensual, moderate and centre-right; Copé campaigned as
1365-652: A supervisory board devolved to France Télévisions. These few amendments needed new authorisation from the French and European authorities, obtained this time round without difficulty. The launch of the channel was made official after a statement to the cabinet of the Ministry of Culture and Communication , headed by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres on 30 November 2005, "The project of the International French News Channel (abbreviated in French to CFII )[...] will allow us to propose our own country's vision of world events and to reinforce its presence in
1456-409: Is irreversible and is definitive" 102 posts, of which 85 from RFI, were cut preceding the official merger. Editorial teams, technical and distribution, financial and human resources departments of both France 24 and RFI were involved. On 13 February 2012 the merger of France 24 and RFI was made official. A new logo and graphics package was unveiled on 12 December 2013, updating the 2006 logo; however,
1547-437: Is outsourced to Red Bee Media . France 24's programming is divided more or less equally between news coverage and news magazines or special reports. Along with 260 journalists of its own, France 24 can call on the resources of the two main French broadcasters ( Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions ) as well as partners such as AFP and RFI . In 2016, France 24 started sharing its French language night-time programming with
1638-464: The 2007 and 2012 presidential elections emphasised the ideas of personal responsibility and individual initiative. He developed the idea of "working more to earn more", promising that overtime hours would not be taxed and employers exonerated from non-wage labour costs . Under his presidency, the government's short-lived tax cap for high-income earners was denounced by the left but also several centrist and centre-right politicians within or outside
1729-472: The 2007 presidential election . The failure of the referendum on the European Constitution on 25 May 2005 led to the fall of the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and to the formation of a new cabinet, presided by another UMP politician, Dominique de Villepin . However, during this time, the UMP under Sarkozy gained a record number of new members and rejuvenated itself in preparation of
1820-758: The 2011 cantonal elections held on 20 and 27 March 2011, and in September, the centre-right lost control of the French Senate for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic. In May 2011, during a party congress, the Radical Party, led by Borloo, decided to leave the UMP and launch The Alliance , a new centrist coalition. The party opted not to organise primaries ahead of the 2012 presidential election and endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy 's bid for second term. Sarkozy lost reelection to
1911-581: The Bourget in November 2002. Juppé won 79.42% of the vote, defeating Nicolas Dupont-Aignan , the leader of the party's Eurosceptic Arise the Republic faction, and three other candidates. During the party's earlier years, it was marked by tensions and rivalries between Juppé and other chiraquiens and supporters of Nicolas Sarkozy , the then- Minister of the Interior . In the 2004 regional elections ,
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#17327833136482002-551: The National Assembly announced the creation of a new parliamentary group, the Rassemblement-UMP , led by Fillon. Copé took up former president Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal of organising a referendum on a revote, but he saw the creation of the dissident filloniste group as a casus belli and took back his proposal. Luc Chatel , the new vice-president and a Copé supporter, later announced that he supported
2093-454: The Socialist Party (PS), and only 16 seats. The membership in the early 2000s grew from 100,000 to 300,000 after members received a greater say in the selection of the party’s presidential candidate. Juppé resigned the party's presidency on 15 July 2004 after being found guilty in a corruption scandal in January of the same year. Nicolas Sarkozy rapidly announced that he would take over
2184-590: The conservative-liberal party Liberal Democracy (DL), a sizeable portion of the Union for French Democracy (UDF), merged their parties into the new party over the course of the first year. The UDF's Christian Democrats (such as Philippe Douste-Blazy and Jacques Barrot ), the Radical Party and the centrist Popular Party for French Democracy (both associate parties of the UDF until 2002), aligned themselves with
2275-488: The 2007 election. On 14 January 2007, Sarkozy was nominated unopposed as the UMP's presidential candidate for the 2007 election. On the issues, the party under Sarkozy publicly disapproved of Turkey 's proposed membership in the European Union, which Chirac had previously endorsed several times publicly, and generally took a more right-wing position. On 22 April 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy won the plurality of votes in
2366-459: The FN and prefer to vote for a FN candidate over a Socialist Party or left-wing candidate in runoff elections between the left and the FN; the party's official position continues to reject alliances with the FN at any level but also opposes so-called "republican fronts" with the left against the FN. The UMP's original statutes in 2002 allowed for the organisation of formal factions or movements within
2457-479: The France-based France Info . According to Marie-Christine Saragosse, president and CEO of France Médias Monde, "part of the value added of this public channel" would be the fact that "[France 24 journalists] will be wide awake while others would be sleeping". The channel was created with the backing of president Jacques Chirac , with the aim of providing a French perspective of the news, which
2548-593: The French State bought the shares of the two shareholders for an amount of 2 million euros each. Since then, France 24 has been a chain of the national program company France Médias Monde (formerly Exterior Audiovisual of France), 100% owned by the French State through the Agence des participations de l'État (APE, lit. ' State Participations Agency ' ). Previous directors of France 24 include Marc Saikali . France 24 has two main sources of funding :
2639-595: The French government, via its holding company France Médias Monde , having bought out the minority share of the former partners: Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions . The budget of France Médias Monde (France 24, RFI and MCD) is approximately €300 million per year. The current director of France 24 is Vanessa Burggraf . France 24 is broadcast on four channels: in French, in English, in Arabic and in Spanish. Their playout
2730-492: The French-language media on the international scene? Admittedly, we have with Agence France-Presse a remarkable information tool that we must continue to reinforce, notably in its international mission. Indeed, everyone here recognises the recent progress made by RFI, by TV5, by CFI, thanks to the efforts of their teams and to the determination of the public bodies. But everybody notices that we are still far from having
2821-570: The Latin American market launched in September 2017, competing with CNN en Español , DW (Español) , NTN24 , TeleSUR , RT en español and CGTN Spanish . The French government allocated around €100 million for the project. The European Commission gave the green light to France 24 in June 2006, saying it did not breach European Union state-aid rules. From 2 September 2016, France's new news channel, France Info , started simulcasting France 24 from midnight to 6 am daily, when
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2912-605: The Move ( Union en mouvement ). After Chirac's re-election, in order to contest the legislative election jointly, the Union for the Presidential Majority ( Union pour la majorité présidentielle ) was created. It was renamed "Union for a Popular Movement" and as such established as a permanent organisation. Various parties, such as the Gaullist-conservative Rally for the Republic (RPR),
3003-621: The News from France 24 will have access to audio description for visually and hearing impaired equipment. France 24 aims to compete with leading English-language international news channels BBC World News and CNN International . Its intention is to put more emphasis on debate, dialogue and the role of cultural differences. It also competes with Deutsche Welle , Al Jazeera English , and NHK World news channels. The Arabic programming competes with Al Jazeera 's Arabic service, RT Arabic , BBC Arabic and Sky News Arabia . A new Spanish channel for
3094-549: The President, the new channel will draw on the talents of major French television companies, and will promote the expression of a French vision, more necessary than ever in the world today. The Government will present an amendment to the Finance Bill to provide for the start of the channel, to a total of 30 million euro." The amendment was carried the same day in the National Assembly . The start of 2005 concerned obtaining
3185-472: The Socialist Party candidate François Hollande on 6 May 2012, winning 48.36% in the runoff. The party was defeated by the new president's left-wing majority in the subsequent legislative election . Prior to Sarkozy's defeat on 6 May, the UMP's secretary-general Jean-François Copé announced that he supported the creation of internal "movements" within the party and the organisation of primaries for
3276-487: The UMP gained a majority in the National Assembly with 313 out of 577 seats. Following Sarkozy's election to the presidency, interim leader Jean-Claude Gaudin prevented a leadership struggle between Patrick Devedjian and Jean-Pierre Raffarin by announcing that the UMP should have a collegial leadership while Sarkozy was President of the Republic. In July, the UMP's national council approved an amendment to
3367-412: The UMP led by Bruno Le Maire and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet appealed for the organisation of a new election in the spring of 2013 and a reform of the party statutes. Both rivals reached an agreement at the end of December 2012, with Copé agreeing to the organisation of a new election and a modification of party statutes while Fillon agreed to dissolve his parliamentary group. The party's leadership
3458-417: The UMP suffered a heavy blow, winning the presidencies of only 2 out of 22 regions in metropolitan France ( Alsace and Corsica ) and only half of the departments (the right had previously won numerous departmental presidencies) in the simultaneous 2004 cantonal elections . In the 2004 European Parliament election on 13 June 2004, the UMP also suffered another heavy blow, winning 16.6% of the vote, far behind
3549-511: The UMP was discovered to have a hidden debt of €79.1 million for the year 2013. On 20 May 2021, the criminal trial began for Sarkozy and 13 other defendants who were said to have been involved in the Bygmalion scandal. The scandal allegations that Sarkozy diverting tens of millions of euros which was intended to be spent on his failed 2012 re-election campaign and then hiring a PR firm to cover it up. The illicit campaign finance money which
3640-544: The UMP's leadership structure: The Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition , the Christian Democratic Party , the Rally for France and The Progressives are associate parties of the UMP. By adhering to these parties, members also adhered to the UMP and could participate in the UMP's inner organisation. The Radical Party was associated with the UMP from 2002 through 2011. Overseas parties associated with
3731-497: The UMP. Having gained his popularity as a 'hardliner' Interior minister , Sarkozy's policies also carried a strong law-and-order and tough on crime orientation. He supported tougher sentences for criminals and repeat offenders . As candidate and president, he placed heavy emphasis on immigration and national identity , presenting immigration as a danger to French identity and as source of increased criminality. As president, he imposed stricter limits on family reunification , created
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3822-401: The application deadline on 22 April 2003, three candidates replied: One month later, a parliamentary commission gave its conclusion, voted with a unanimous decision by its members in the National Assembly, to form a public-owned corporation (groupement d'intérêt public) grouping all of the public broadcasters (France Télévisions, RFO, RFI, TV5 and AFP) with the goal of launching the channel at
3913-457: The arrival of François Mitterrand as president in 1981 and the naming of Michel Rocard as Prime Minister in 1989, the government launched a new project, Canal France International (CFI), a package of programmes aimed at making programmes in French for foreign audiences, particularly in Africa, to be developed in parallel as a television channel. The First Gulf War of 1990, relayed across
4004-520: The audiovisual license fee, paid by each household equipped with a television, and the state subsidy. vingt#French Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 949429252 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:41:53 GMT Union for
4095-656: The authorisation necessary from the European Union and the relevant competition commissions. Trade union members working for France Télévisions continued to voice opposition to the project and circulated a petition in March 2005. The newly elected president of the public corporation, Patrick de Carolis , who assumed his position in the summer (and who had been accused of being too close to the President), expressed doubts about an alliance with TF1, "To be effective, you need
4186-523: The candidate of the droite décomplexée ('uninhibited right') and introduced issues such as anti-white racism . However, both candidates received support from moderate and conservative members of the party and their main differences were in rhetoric, style and temperament. Copé, again, appeared more militant and activist, saying that he would support and participate in street demonstrations while Fillon disagreed with his rival. Six 'motions' (declarations of principles) were submitted to party voters; under
4277-494: The capital of the France 24 company". The same Decree transferred its share to the Société de l'audiovisuel extérieur de la France (AEF) , which made AEF sole shareholder of France 24, for the sum of 4 million euro. President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on 8 January 2008 that he was in favour of reducing France 24's programming to French only. In January 2012 AEF announced a merger between France 24 and Radio France International,
4368-424: The channel doesn't broadcast live except for newscasts every half-hour. However, from 20 March 2017, on weekdays, France Info started simulcasting France 24 until 6:30 am, due to the main presenter Laurent Bignolas anchoring the early newscast on France 2 Le 6h Info , which isn't simulcast on France Info. From its creation in 2006 to 2008, France 24 is managed by a management board and a supervisory board. In 2008,
4459-560: The channel increased its reach, airing programmes in Arabic for viewers in the Maghreb , North Africa and the Middle East. Two months after launch, a survey conducted by TNS Sofres indicated that 75% of respondents in France questioned thought France 24 was "useful and essential", but questions have arisen concerning the France 24 name being too Franco-centric for an international news channel. In 2008 Groupe TF1 ceded its share in
4550-497: The channel to a government-owned holding company, Société de l'audiovisuel extérieur de la France (AEF) , whilst conversely committing to producing programmes for the channel until 2015. Despite the launch of France 24, the fragmentation of public broadcasting overseas continues. The total budget for external broadcasting from France totalled 300 million euro each year. Following the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president in May 2007,
4641-612: The choice from a list of five potential names. France 24 launched on 6 December 2006 at 20:30 CET , initially available online as a web stream, followed by satellite distribution a day later, covering France and the rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the United States (specifically airing in New York State and the District of Columbia using two channels: one in English and the other in French). Since April 2007
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#17327833136484732-681: The composition of the new party's political bureau by 94.77%. The Republicans thus became the legal successor of the UMP as the leading centre-right party in France. Defunct Defunct The UMP was a party of the centre-right belonging to the Gaullist lineage, and was variously described as liberal-conservative , conservative , conservative-liberal , and Christian democratic . The UMP believed that each individual's destiny must be unencumbered and it rejects political systems which "stifle economic freedom". It said that work, merit, innovation and personal initiative must be encouraged to reduce unemployment and boost economic growth; but at
4823-450: The creation of EuroNews in 1993 (with French-language commentary), the media presence of France overseas became more complex, more fragmented, and costlier, without being able to rely on a true round-the-clock international news channel. In 2002, President Jacques Chirac relaunched the project to create a French international news channel: Is it understandable that year after year we are still lamenting our persistent failure with news and
4914-544: The dissipation of public funds which are reserved to them. On 7 March, speaking in the French Senate in front of foreign delegates to France, and as part of his presidential campaign, Chirac said, "We must have the ambition of a big, round-the-clock news channel in French, equal to the BBC or CNN for the English-speaking world. It is essential for the influence of our country. For our expatriates, it would be
5005-517: The election of Nicolas Sarkozy , the former President of France (2007–2012), as president of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in November 2014, he put forward a request to the party's general committee to change its name to the Republicans as well as the statutes of the party. With the name already chosen Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , vice president of the UMP, presented Nicolas Sarkozy and
5096-448: The end of 2004. Ignoring the work of the parliamentary commission, the government asked a member of the assembly, Bernard Brochand, to form a partnership between the applying candidates for the international channel, something which the parliamentary commission did not demand. Brochard unsuccessfully attempted to group both Groupe TF1 and Groupe Canal+. He then proposed a 50/50 partnership between France Télévisions and Groupe TF1 (whilst at
5187-473: The first round of the 2007 presidential election . On 6 May he faced the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal in the second round and won, taking 53.06% of the vote. As a consequence, he resigned from the presidency of the UMP on 14 May 2007, two days before becoming President of the French Republic. François Fillon was appointed prime minister. On 17 June 2007, at a 2007 legislative election ,
5278-440: The integration and assimilation of immigrants into French society and always denounced communitarianism as a danger to the French nation-state . However, the UMP traditionally was a strong proponent of European integration and the European Union , albeit sometimes with a hint of traditional Gaullist souverainism . Under Nicolas Sarkozy 's leadership, the UMP adopted a liberal and security-oriented platform. His platform in
5369-469: The left. Xavier Bertrand was selected as secretary-general of the party in late 2008 to replace Patrick Devedjian , who resigned to take up a cabinet position. In the 2009 European Parliament election on 7 June 2009, the UMP ran common lists with its junior allies including Jean-Louis Borloo 's Radical Party , the New Centre and Modern Left . The UMP list won 27.9%, a remarkably good result for
5460-571: The long applause given by the members of the United Nations Security Council after Dominique de Villepin gave his address on the Iraq conflict. On 19 March 2003, Matignon opened offers to: Elicit the development of an international news channel. Broadcasting primarily in the French language, this service will assure a more important and more visible presence of France in the worldwide battle of images, and to contribute to
5551-656: The name of the party to The Republicans, which was approved and came into effect on 30 May 2015. The UMP enjoyed an absolute majority in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2012, and was a member of the European People's Party (EPP), the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) and the International Democrat Union (IDU). Since the 1980s, the political groups of the parliamentary right have joined forces around
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#17327833136485642-410: The new statutes, motions which won over 10% of the vote at the congress would be recognised as "movements" by the UMP leadership, granted financial autonomy and receive positions in the party structures. The vote on 18 November saw high turnout but was quickly marred by allegations of irregularities and potential fraud on both sides. Both candidates proclaimed victory within 20 minutes of each other on
5733-709: The next presidential election. The UMP's political bureau announced the organisation of a party congress on 18 and 25 November 2012, leading prominent party leaders to organise factions and "movements" to influence the party's new direction. Ultimately, two candidates amassed the required endorsements to run for the party's presidency: former prime minister François Fillon and incumbent party secretary-general Jean-François Copé . Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , Bruno Le Maire , Xavier Bertrand , Henri Guaino , and Dominique Dord had also announced their candidacies but did not meet tough candidacy requirements. The campaign between Fillon and Copé lasted two months. Fillon had
5824-486: The night of the vote. Twenty four hours later, the control commission in charge of the vote (COCOE) announced Copé's victory by only 98 votes. While Fillon initially conceded defeat, by 21 November, his campaign claimed victory anew, with a 26-vote advantage over Copé. Fillon's campaign argued that the COCOE had failed to take into account votes cast in three overseas federations . Party elder Alain Juppé accepted to lead
5915-400: The organisation of formal movements within the party following the November 2012 congress. According to the party's statutes, motions backed by at least 10 parliamentarians from 10 departmental federations and which obtain at least 10% support from members at a congress are recognised as movements. They are granted financial autonomy by way of a fixed grant and additional funding in proportion to
6006-479: The partnership having a "public channel, private owner", while other sections of the press criticised its modest budget of 80 million euro (compared with 600 million euro for BBC World ). Finally the Minister for Foreign Affairs had worried that the budget would take away from existing funded channels such as TV5 . Facing discontentment, the cabinet of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin delayed all discussion of
6097-562: The party for the 2002 French legislative election . In the UMP four major French political families were thus represented: Gaullism , republicanism (the kind of liberalism put forward by parties like the Democratic Republican Alliance or the PR , heir of DL), Christian democracy ( Popularism ) and radicalism . Chirac's close ally Alain Juppé became the party's first president at the party's founding congress at
6188-401: The party hierarchy were divided between supporters of both candidates. New leaders were also nominated in February 2013. Several spending scandals appeared in 2014. In early 2014, the Bygmalion scandal ( fr ) pushed the party's leader Jean-François Copé to resign. In early July, Sarkozy got held in custody due to possible spying and active corruption of the judiciary system. On 8 July 2014,
6279-556: The party was succeeded by The Republicans . Nicolas Sarkozy , the then president of the UMP, was elected president of France in the 2007 French presidential election , until he was later defeated by PS candidate François Hollande in the 2012 presidential election . After the November 2012 party congress, the UMP experienced internal fractioning and was plagued by monetary scandals which forced its president Jean-François Copé to resign. After Sarkozy's re-election as UMP president in November 2014, he put forward an amendment to change
6370-420: The party's political bureau a project of new statutes. The proposed statutes provided for, among others, the election of the presidents of the departmental federations by direct suffrage, the end of the political currents and consulting members on election nominations. Critics of Sarkozy claimed it was illegal for him to name the party "Republicans" because every French person is a republican in that they support
6461-435: The party's statute allowing for a collegial leadership around three vice-presidents (Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Jean-Claude Gaudin and Pierre Méhaignerie ) and a secretary-general ( Patrick Devedjian ) and two associate secretaries-general. On 9 March 2008, municipal and cantonal elections, the party performed quite poorly, losing numerous cities, such as Toulouse and Strasbourg , as well as eight departmental presidencies to
6552-506: The party, to represent the various political families of which it was made up. However, fearing leadership rivalries and divisions, Juppé, Chirac and later Sarkozy 'postponed' the creation of such organised movements indefinitely. Nevertheless, prior to the organisations of formal "movements" in November 2012, there existed informal groupings of like-minded members, either through associations, political clubs, associated political parties or even informal factions. Jean-François Copé allowed for
6643-402: The pluralism of international information by offering to our viewers the choice of a different viewpoint on the news, marked by a singular point of view of our country on world affairs, by its culture and by its own ideas, and to value its historical links and its privileged geography. The international news channel must contribute to a long-lasting strategy of influence of France in the world. By
6734-468: The presidency of the UMP and resign his position as finance minister , ending months of speculation. On 28 November 2004, Sarkozy was elected to the party's presidency with 85.09% of the votes against 9.1% for Dupont-Aignan and 5.82% for Christine Boutin , the leader of the UMP's social conservatives . Having gained control of what had been Chirac's party, Sarkozy focused the party machinery and his energies on
6825-534: The project in 2004. Then Foreign Minister Michel Barnier announced on 21 July that the channel would not be funded before 2007, which was confirmed by a vote in parliament on the Finance Bill. However, the Prime Minister acceded to pressure from the Élysée ; a press conference by Raffarin on 9 December confirmed the launch of the new news channel in 2005, "I have decided to accept the proposed joint venture proposed by France Télévisions and TF1. As desired by
6916-496: The recommendations voted for in the parliamentary commission were thrown out in favour of one prepared outside the parliamentary framework. Unionised journalists working for France Télévisions denounced the potential alliance with the private sector, calling it "the marriage of the snake and the rabbit"; Radio France International was angry that it would not be associated with the project. A headline published in Le Monde described
7007-438: The same time rejecting RFI), both groups possessing the technical means and experience of broadcasting externally: TF1 with its LCI channel and France Télévisions' editorial teams at France 2 and France 3 . After a press conference in January 2004, President Chirac wished for a launch of the channel towards the end of the year. However, various disputes began to surface. The ministers of the assembly that voted were angry that
7098-522: The same time, it maintained that adherence to the rule of law and the authority of the state is necessary. In a Gaullist tradition, the UMP supported solidarity, with the state guaranteeing social protection of less fortunate individuals. But in a more liberal vein, the party always denounced l'assistanat , a French term which can refer to "welfare handouts ". The party took more nationalist positions at times, and often adopted tough stances against immigration and illegal immigration . It strongly supported
7189-486: The symbol has remained, but the shape was turned into a square. And the new graphic device is the shade of white and blue, that they move left or right, at the end of each promo and on-air graphics. On screen, a black tickerbar shows every top story in order, and on the white bar, it says the name of the website, which is "FRANCE24.COM" in capital letters. At the same time, new intros were given for its News, Weather, and other programmes. While on 1 June 2015, on 10:00 and 17:00,
7280-538: The values and ideals of the French Republic that emanated from the French Revolution , and as such the term is above party politics. The new name was adopted by the bureau on 5 May 2015 and approved by the party membership on 28 May by an online yes vote of 83.28% on a 45.74% participation after a court ruling in favor of Sarkozy. Similarly the new party statutes are adopted by 96.34% of voters and
7371-535: The values of economic liberalism and the building of Europe . Their rivalries had contributed to their defeat in the 1981 and 1988 legislative elections. Before the 1993 legislative election , the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) and the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) formed an electoral alliance, the Union for France (UPF). However, in the 1995 presidential campaign they were both divided between followers of Jacques Chirac , who
7462-498: The votes they obtained; but the sum of funds transferred by the party to its movements can be no larger than 30% of the annual public subsidies the UMP receives from the state. Six motions representing various ideological tendencies within the party ran to be recognised as official movements following the November 2012 congress . Five of these motions met the conditions to be recognised as such, and their leaders have since integrated
7553-401: The world by CNN International in particular, revealed the power of international news channels and their role in the formation of opinion. A parliamentary minister, Philippe Séguin , wished to create a French-language equivalent. In 1996 to 1999, after nineteen governmental reports in ten years, Prime Minister Alain Juppé asked Radio France Internationale president Jean-Paul Cluzel (who
7644-424: The world, but additionally, in 2010, France 24 began broadcasting online through its own iPhone and Android apps. It is a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube , and various mobile devices and digital media players . The stated mission of the channels is to "provide a global public service and a common editorial stance". Since 2008 the channel has been wholly owned by
7735-405: The world." Alain de Pouzilhac, former CEO of Havas, was named president, along with two deputies, one each from group partners TF1 and France Télévisions. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin declared that CFII, against the wishes of TF1, would be broadcast within mainland France. However, TF1 wished to launch its news channel LCI onto the digital terrestrial platform. In order to placate TF1, CFII
7826-571: Was also General Inspector of Finances ) to create a French international news channel. Cluzel proposed in 1998 to group TV5, RFI, and CFI within a corporation entitled Téléfi. The UMP -led government decided to follow that recommendation but, with the return of the Socialist Party to government and the nomination of Hubert Védrine , the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, favoured the augmentation of existing outlets such as TV5, which started to produce its own programming, notably its news bulletins, which in turn created its own news team. Additionally with
7917-453: Was dominated by English-language media outlets. In 1986, then French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac expressed his desire for an international television news channel in French and had requested a report into the activities of current international broadcasts from France ( Radio France Internationale , TV5 , and to a certain extent Réseau France Outre-Mer ) and noted the collective offering was "fragmented, disorganised and ineffective." With
8008-446: Was due to be broadcast via satellite and cable. On 22 April 2006, Le Monde announced that the managers of the forthcoming channel found its initial name difficult to pronounce ( CFII , in French pronounced as C-F-I-I or C-F-2-I ). A new name was announced on 30 June 2006, "France 24" (pronounced "France vingt-quatre"). This decision was taken by the supervisory board, chaired by France Télévision president Patrick de Carolis, who made
8099-532: Was eventually elected, and supporters of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur . After their defeat in the 1997 legislative election , the RPR and UDF created the Alliance for France in order to coordinate the actions of their parliamentary groups. Before the 2002 presidential campaign , the supporters of President Jacques Chirac , divided in three centre-right parliamentary parties, founded an association named Union on
8190-445: Was not reported as being spent on Sarkozy's re-election campaign was instead used to overspend on lavish campaign rallies and events. On 30 September 2021, Sarkozy and his co-defendants would be convicted for violating France's campaign finance spending limit law. For this conviction, Sarkozy was given a 1-year prison sentence, though he was also given the option to instead serve this sentence at home with an electronic bracelet. After
8281-409: Was reorganized in January 2013 to accommodate Copé and Fillon's supporters: Laurent Wauquiez and Valérie Pécresse joined Luc Chatel and Michèle Tabarot as vice-president and secretary-general respectively. Christian Estrosi , Gérard Longuet , Henri de Raincourt (pro-Fillon), Jean-Claude Gaudin , Brice Hortefeux and Roger Karoutchi (pro-Copé) also became vice-presidents. Other positions in
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