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Foie gras shortages, Paris cafés battle laptops and why there's more to Brigitte Macron

On this week’s episode of Talking France we find out why certain Paris cafés are banning customers from getting out their laptops.

Are they really “squatters who don’t pay their way” as one café owner told us, or just a modern, hi-tech version of a traditional Paris café goer? We hear from both sides of the row.

Article: ‘They are squatters’: Are Paris cafés right to clamp down on laptop users?

This week France’s traditional centre-right party has elected a new leader who isn’t traditionally centre right at all. We’ll find out more about him and on the subject of politics we’ll also hear how…

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