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The French central bank has estimated that the economy shrank by 6 percent in the first three months of the year - the biggest drop since 1945. If confirmed in official figures later this month, it would mean that France has slumped into recession due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Bank of France said economic activity slumped by a third in the second half of March, as lockdown measures went into effect.
IN THE FRENCH PAPERS - Monday, July 17: There's a lot of praise for French President Emmanuel Macron after his weekend meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. There's much less accord for his tax reforms and plans to eliminate residency taxes for 80% of French households. In other news, France's political parties are broke after a bruising election period and French sports paper L’Équipe is all praise for Roger Federer after he wins his eighth Wimbledon title.
Pope Francis paid a somber visit to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where more than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed.
On January 27th 1945, Red Army troops discovered, almost by chance, the Third Reich's largest extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Seventy years on, FRANCE 24 looks back at the history of what has become the symbol of the Holocaust.
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