Representatives of staff at Canal France International (CFI), which supplies French-language programmes to TV stations worldwide, fear their company could close down, largely because of plans for the international French news channel (CFII or CII).
“The latest developments concerning the CFII project, in which CFI is no longer involved, and the current budgetary uncertainties give us grounds for fearing that ultimately our company will, quite simply, just close down,” the CFDT, FO and CFE-CGC inter-union committee, staff delegates and elected representatives of the CFI works council said in a statement.
In May, CFI staff representatives approved proposals by the National Assembly, which included CFI in an alliance with private groups to create CFII. However in the end the government reneged on this and came out in favour of an equal partnership comprising the public group France Televisions and TF1.