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Publication du Rapport Pigeat sur l'avenir de l'AFP

Le ministère de la Culture publie le rapport du Comité de réflexion sur l'avenir de l’AFP. Infos, réactions

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Emmanuel Hoog elected to head AFP

The head of France's National TV & Radio Institute (INA) is elected CEO after the abrupt resignation of Pierre Louette

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Février 2010 : Projet "AFP Services", puis démission de Pierre Louette

Pierre Louette lance un projet très contesté d'alliance avec l'entreprise Relaxnews - puis subitement annonce sa démission en tant que PDG de l'AFP. Textes, réactions, revue de presse

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Le 1er février : publication du rapport Filloux

Embauché comme consultant par Pierre Louette en juin 2009, Frédéric Filloux a publié un rapport intitulé "Pérenniser l'Agence France-Presse : Comment rendre l'AFP à nouveau indispensable dans le contexte d'une information surabondante et dévalorisée"

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January 8: Staff Referendum on Changes to Statutes is Postponed

Pending the conclusions of the experts' group set up by Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand, the SNJ, CFDT, FO, SUD and CFE-CGC trade unions decide to put off the staff vote scheduled for January 12. The CGT expresses disagreement, and vows to push ahead with the vote.

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December 10: Government Sets up Committee to Study Agency's Future

The five "experts" appointed by Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand include Michèle Cotta, Jean-Marie Colombani and Henri Pigeat, a former CEO of the company

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Unions in Parliamentary Hearings; New Calls to Preserve AFP Statutes

December 8: The French National Assembly's Cultural Affairs Committee publishes the full account of hearings attended by the unions and CEO Pierre Louette. Meanwhile the centrist MoDem party comes out in favour of preserving our statutes

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December 2: AFP Unions Announce a Staff Referendum on the Plan to Change the Statutes

"Do you approve of the plans for new statutes defended by the CEO and involving the transformation of AFP into a joint-stock company?"

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Joint AFP Unions Meet Speaker of the French Senate

November 5, 2009: Gérard Larcher, president of the upper house of parliament, stated that due to a backlog of legislative business, the plan to change AFP's statutes was not likely to be discussed early next year.

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The Louette Plan Must be Withdrawn, Says the French CGT Journalists' Union

October 27, 2009 : "There are ways to let AFP develop within the framework of the 1957 statutes," says the Journalists' Union of the General Labour Confederation, France's biggest labour group.

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