French press review 6 May 2010

Greece's crisis is dominating the front pages of the French press this morning. Absolutely everybody is drawing the link between the country's proximity to the financial abyss and the severe beating that the Euro took in yesterday's trading.

Conservative Le Figaro is running a sobering squiggly graph depicting the demise of the european single currency on its front page under the headline 'the Euro plunges'.

Back in December, a euro would have bought you 1 dollar 45 cents; yesterday $1.28 is all that anyone would be prepared to give you for the currency that's looking more and more unstable.

Meanwhile financial daily Les Echos leads with the death of three people at the sidelines of protests yesterday in Athens, which is more that can be said for stone hearted Le Figaro. That news is buried somwhere on its inside pages.

The picture on the front page of Les Echos is a red flag wielding protester lobbing stones at riot police.

A similar image adorns the cover of left wing Libération bearing the simple but effective headline 'Greek Tragedy.' The paper is saying this morning that anger is the prevailing sentiment in Athens at the moment.

The other big story in the papers this morning is the general election on the other side of the channel. Libération is running a UK election special.

Inside we get profiles of the three main party candidates, Gordon Brown, who 'shouldn't be ruled out', David Cameron the 'baby-faced new Conservative' and Nick Clegg 'the possible king-maker'.

Elsewhere the full English breakfast is on the menu, in an article that looks at the 'the unjustified reputation' that British cuisine has here in France.