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French rescuers saved 243 migrants in the English Channel on Friday and Saturday who tried to get from France to the UK, Reuters news agency reported yesterday.more

From today, unvaccinated people arriving in France from Poland, Luxembourg and Switzerland against Covid-19 must have a negative coronavirus test done up to 24 hours before travel, according to a regulatory change published on Friday in the Official Journal.more

Due to rising crime in the Guillotiere district of central Lyon, a local supermarket, cafés and service outlets are cutting their working hours to keep their employees and customers safe. The police cannot cope with the fight against human trafficking, drugs and looting.more

For the first time since September, the rate of coronavirus infections in France has increased from 50 to 100 people per 100,000. residents within 7 days, the medical authorities said. Health Minister Olivier Veran called for continued vaccination and a booster dose against the coronavirus.more

The variant, known either as B.1.X or B.1.640, was first reported by the French paper Le Telegramme after it infected 24 people at a French school in the Brittany region last month. more

Three people have been detained after Monday's knife attack on police officers in Cannes in southern France, police sources said yesterday, cited by French media. The perpetrator's motives are still being determined.more

Migration must be stopped immediately; the entire political class is on the side of the Poles - said today Michel Barnier, former Brexit negotiator and candidate for president of France in next year's elections.more

The Supreme Health Authority (HAS) recommends the use of Pfizer for populations under the age of 30, whether it is a primary or a booster immunization. Moderna vaccine slightly increases the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in this group, it was found.more

A policeman sitting in a police car has been seriously injured by a knife attack in Cannes in southern France. The perpetrator was shot, Reuters reported today. According to Interior Ministry chief Gerald Darmanin, "a terrorist plot is being considered".more

Thanks to Brexit, France has become the third largest market for goods from Poland, after Germany and the Czech Republic, said the Polish Economic Institute (PIE).more

French actress Brigitte Bardot, who wrote in 2019 about the ill-treatment of animals in Réunion, called the inhabitants of the island "natives who retained their wild genes", was fined by a court in Saint-Denis in the amount of EUR 20,000 for public insults about racist nature.more

The UK and France remained locked in a bitter cross-Channel confrontation over fishing licences for French boats in English waters after a meeting between UK Brexit minister Lord David Frost and France’s Europe minister, Clément Beaune, in Paris on Thursday.more

Polish truck driver Mateusz K. was sentenced on Wednesday to a suspended one year in prison for accidentally hitting a 23-year-old man, a member of the "yellow vest" movement at the Avinion roundabout in December 2018.more

The British trawler, which was detained by French authorities last Thursday over a dispute over fishing rights after Brexit, was released yesterday and left the port of Le Havre in the evening.more

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was postponing planned trade sanctions on Britain so that negotiators from both sides could work on new proposals to defuse their dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights.more

The UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned France it has 48 hours to back down on threats made in the row over fishing licences or the UK will begin dispute talks set out in the Brexit deal.more

It is up to France and whether it will withdraw from the threats to close access to some of its ports by British cutters, that the dispute over fishing rights will be resolved, said the spokesman of the British prime minister after Boris Johnson's meeting with Emmanuel Macron.more

The resumption of the epidemic has been confirmed, the Public Health Agency (SPF) said today. The intensity of the coronavirus circulation is increasing, there are more Covid-19 cases. The number of hospital admissions for resuscitation is increasing again.more

Britain could respond with the same if France continues to make "unacceptable threats" in the dispute over fishing rights, warned British Agriculture, Food and Rural Minister George Eustice.more

"The British must respect their commitments," French Prime Minister Jean Castex said today, commenting on the conflict with the government in London over fishing licences for French fishermen.more

British officials are urgently investigating the circumstances surrounding the seizure of a British fishing trawler by French authorities, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister George Eustice said today.more

Two British fishing vessels have been stopped and one fined in the Gulf of Seine. This is part of a policy of "tighter controls" in the conflict between France and the UK over fishing after Brexit.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, seeking a counterbalance in the European Union to France, which is increasingly hostile to London, plans to organize a summit with prime ministers of the Visegrad Group countries at the beginning of next year, the Sunday Express reported.more

Over 40,000 people took to the streets of French cities in demonstrations against sanitary passes. people - the AFP agency reported today. A total of 171 protests took place throughout the country. They have been organized for 14 weeks.more

The European institutions go beyond their prerogatives, getting involved in matters that do not concern them, and as soon as an EU country dares to pursue excessively conservative social policies, it is called to order in the name of "European values" - writes its head Guillame Roquette in the magazine Le Figaro, commenting on the decision of the Polish Constitutional Court.more