Editing France 24 (section)

====Public-private angst====
The start of 2005 concerned obtaining the authorisation necessary from the [[European Union]] and the relevant competition commissions. Trade union members working for France Télévisions continued to voice opposition to the project and circulated a petition in March 2005. The newly elected president of the public corporation, [[Patrick de Carolis]], who assumed his position in the summer (and who had been accused of being too close to the President), expressed doubts about an alliance with TF1, "To be effective, you need a single driver in a car".<ref>Delesalle, Nicolas (11 January 2006). "La voix de la France, en léger différé…", ''[[Télérama]]'', n°2922.</ref>

He insisted that the channel be made available within France, which the members of parliament required, and which [[TF1]], wanting to protect its own news channel [[La Chaîne Info|LCI]], could object to. Patrick Le Lay, president of TF1, gave his blessing for the channel to be broadcast domestically and wished the direction of the channel to alternate every six months between the two parties, and eventually a supervisory board devolved to France Télévisions. These few amendments needed new authorisation from the French and European authorities, obtained this time round without difficulty.