The controversial adviser who recorded hundreds of hours of private meetings with then President Nicolas Sarkozy has come up with a surprising defence: Patrick Buisson's lawyer claims the dictaphone used by his client was voice-activated and turned on without Mr Buisson's knowledge. Also, Swiss students are excluded from the Erasmus programme following a recent referendum against "mass immigration". Finally, some Paris postal workers are refusing to deliver National Front campaign leaflets.

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