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from The Bugle Limousin - Feb 2020

by The Bugle

ormer president Nicolas Sarkozy will face trial on charges of corruption and abuse of power later this year after losing a final bid at France's highest court

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A Limoges court has ordered a local man to pay his siblings €52 million over the illegal sale of their father's Ferrari 250 GTO >> Page 4

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Your local newspaper for life in France February 2020 - Issue 124 - FREE! Creuse roads to return to 90 km/h INSIDE > > > Local architect redesigns Notre-Dame - pg 5

The Creuse department has become the latest to announce that it will roll back the government's decision to lower the national speed limit from 90 km/h to 80 km/h. I n 2018, the g o v e r n m e n t reduced the speed limit on the country's national road network from 90 km/h down to 80 km/h. The change proved controversial from the outset with as much as 80% of the public against the move and many regional authorities vocal opponents ever since. In the face of growing backlash, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe responded by announcing in 2019 that local authorities would be free to set their own limits, including reverting back to 90 km/h if they wished. A number of departments were quick to announce that they would roll back the changes. “This measure, decided from Paris without consultation, has turned out to be very unpopular, especially in rural areas,” president of the Loiret department Marc Gaudet said at the time. “I am therefore delighted that the State has placed the choice with local authorities who, due to their intimate knowledge of the area, are far better placed to decide on local matters.”

A series of - equally unpopular - road safety changes over recent decades have cut road deaths by a factor of six and numbers appear to have reduced further since the speed limit reduction and so, despite being popular with the general public, authorities who choose to raise the speed limit risk being blamed >> continued on page 7