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Chances Slim for More European Limits on Hollywood: France plans to urge European Union partners this week to come up with a solid plan to help Europe’s audiovisual industry match up to Hollywood competition. But the chances of Paris getting what it wants--tougher limits on U.S. films and TV programs shown on European television--at a meeting of union culture ministers in Bordeaux today and Tuesday are slim. At stake are revisions to the EU’s 1989 “television without frontiers” regulation. France, eager to protect its own ailing film industry, is set on securing a commitment to limits on foreign films during its six-month presidency of the Union, which ends in June.