by Tatiana Repkova

Axel Springer AG may launch a new daily newspaper in France to take advantage of the sales potential of new publications abroad, chief executive Mathias Doepfner told Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview. The company, which has launched 60 new publications in the past five years, will decide this summer whether to start a newspaper in France, he said.

“We have noticed that it is possible to found new things faster and more successfully amid this supposed newspaper and magazine crisis,' Doepfner told the newspaper. http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2007-05/artikel-8250626.asp; May 16, 2007