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The $3bn business and retail park will be built in a suburb near Charles de Gaulle Airport, with its backer the retail group Auchan claiming it will create jobs and boost the local economy.

However the project is opposed by people who wonder if the area, which is close to Disneyland Paris and Parc Ast茅rix, needs another leisure venture. Critics are also unhappy because it will be built on farmland.

Romaine Eskenazi, from the local authority of Gonesse, tells the 麻豆约拍's Russell Padmore, opponents of Europa City should realise it's more than just a shopping mall.

(Picture: Protestors against the construction of Europa City near Paris. Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images.)