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Members of the French riot police are covered with paint on February 22, 2014, in Nantes, western France, during a demonstration against the project to build an international airport in the French western city of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The disputed project, signed in 2010, has been put on hold and will likely be postponed beyond the scheduled opening planned for 2017. The planned airport north of Nantes, which is scheduled to replace the city's current airport in 2017, is a pet project of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who was the city's mayor from 1989 to 2013. At right, the Brittany's flag. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD (Photo credit should read JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP via Getty Images)