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World Business Report: First broadcast 2015/12/14 01:06 GMT: French Far Right Flounders in Key Vote

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French Far Right Flounders in Key Vote

First broadcast 2015/12/14 01:06 GMT

First broadcast 2015/12/14 01:06 GMT: French Far Right Flounders in Key Vote

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Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) party fails to win a single region, exit polls show.

Exit polls in the second round of a key vote show the French National Front (FN) party failing to win a single region.  The group’s leader Marine Le Pen blamed the outcome on the mainstream parties joining forces to keep them from power. We hear from French political journalist and commentator, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet.

A historic deal on Climate Change was reached in Paris on Saturday afternoon. As the business week starts, companies are beginning to focus on what it means for them. We hear from Nick Molho, Chief Executive of the Aldersgate Group, which brings together progressive businesses and Andrew Simms from the New Weather Institute.

Plus, is the ‘will they or won’t they’ guessing game over US interest rates about to come to an end, when the Federal Reserve meets later this week? And a report says 1 in 5 of the biggest British charities spend less than half of their donations on good works – we ask why.

(Photo: Front National leader Marine Le Pen. Credit: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images)

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