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CATCH up with some of the news headlines from France.

Merkel, Sarkozy to discuss fiscal coordination
French and German officials say their leaders will discuss economic coordination in the European Union and escalating violence in Syria when they meet for annual talks on Monday.

French railways hand over WWII dossiers to holocaust museums
France’s state-run railway, the SNCF, has handed over digital copies of its archives for the World War II period to three Holocaust museums. Nearly 100,000 Jews were deported by rail to Nazi death camps while France was under German occupation.

French bookshops have novel plan to fight VAT rise
Booksellers hint at a possible 'labelling strike' where they would simply refuse to stick new price tags on books.

French minister slammed for ‘unequal civilisations’ comment
France’s Interior Minister Claude Gueant has drawn angry criticism from opposition members after suggesting in a speech to a right-wing student group that all civilisations are “not of equal value”.