French public debt under 3 percent for first time in 10 years
France reported a public deficit of 2.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017, below the EU limit of 3.0 percent for the first time in a decade. The INSEE national statistics agency also reported 2.0 percent growth in 2017, France’s highest in six...
One in four Air France flights canceled on second strike day
After the air controllers went on a strike that disrupted flights on 22nd of March, staff at Air France are now staging a walkout. The strike, the second in little more than a month, will see 25 percent of flights grounded. Staff, including pilots and cabin crew, at...
‘Unacceptable’: Italy summons French ambassador over cross-border urine test
The Italian foreign ministry summoned France’s ambassador on Saturday, after uniformed French customs officers crossed the border to confront a man suspected of carrying drugs. France insisted the presence of its personnel at an alpine railway station just inside...
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French public debt under 3 percent for first time in 10 years
France reported a public deficit of 2.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017, below the EU limit of 3.0 percent for the first time in a decade. The INSEE national statistics agency also reported 2.0 percent growth in 2017, France’s highest in six...
At least two dead as suspected IS gunman takes hostages in France
At least two people were killed after a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group opened fire and took hostages at a supermarket in southwest France on Friday. A security source said the two were killed in the attack at a Super U store in the town of...
Police to investigate allegedly racist tweets targeting Joan of Arc celebrations
A preliminary investigation has been opened in France over two tweets comparing a young métis woman to a monkey. The woman – 17-year-old Mathilde Edey Gamassou – who has a father from Benin and a Polish mother, has been chosen to play the role of Joan of...
‘€5,000 would be a deterrent’: the French minister who wants sexual harassment fines
The walk from the Gare du Nord across the Seine to France’s centre of power, a string of buildings off the Quai d’Orsay, takes a pleasant, circuitous hour: the route is a tourist’s dream. But for Marlène Schiappa, France’s freshly appointed gender equality minister,...
Franco-Swiss journalist dies in Paris after being injured in Mosul blast
The Franco-Swiss journalist Veronique Robert has died in hospital in Paris after being wounded in an explosion in Mosul earlier this week. She was caught up in a mine explosion in the Iraqi city that killed the Iraqi journalist Bakhtiyar Haddad and the French...
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