Paris has overtaken London as the top European destination for billionaires and the ultra-rich due to enticing tax breaks offered by president Emmanuel Macron and Brexit-related uncertainty in the UK.more
French fishermen attacked the British scallop fishing vessels during the night from Monday to Tuesday, trying to push them to the full sea and throwing stones and flares - reported the media. The clash occurred in the waters of the English Channel.more
The French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, gathered the ministers yesterday and commissioned them to prepare actions in the event of a failure to reach agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union in the Brexit case.more
Two people have been killed and one seriously wounded in a knife attack in the Paris suburb of Trappes. Police said the man attacked several people with a knife at about 10am on Thursday, then hid inside a house on a quiet street. He was later shot by police and killed, a police source told Reuters.more
Yesterday's statements of the chief negotiator of the European Commission Brexit, Michel Barnier and British minister Dominic Raab, aroused cautious optimism among French commentators, who still argue that the lack of agreement is "more and more likely".more
Brigitte Bardot, a former French actress who has fought for animal rights for years, called the minister for the ecological and solidarity transformation of Nicolas Hulot a "coward" and called for his resignation. Brigitte Bardot's reason for dissatisfaction was the position of the minister on hunting.more
French police have arrested an Austrian man at a Paris airport after he flew in from Mexico with 80 small birds stashed in his hand luggage, a judicial source said Wednesday.more
Theresa May will urge President Emmanuel Macron this week to soften France's stance on Brexit or risk a chaotic UK departure from the EU that would cost Europe jobs and stem the flow of finance from London to the continent.
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France are now officially World Cup holders after beating Croatia 4-2 in Moscow. As always, the game has triggered many reactions on media all over the world.more
France is to beef up its domestic spy agency, create a national anti-terror prosecutor and a special unit to monitor radicalised inmates when they leave prison, the prime minister announced on Friday.more
The UK's digital secretary Matt Hancock is in Paris today to announce a package of measures to strengthen ties between the UK's and France's digital industries.more
The French government has begun putting into action its promise to reintroduce national service for all 16-year-olds. During his election campaign Emmanuel Macron, France's prime minister, said restoring national service would inspire patriotism and social cohesion.more
French butchers have written to the government asking for protection against militant vegans, accusing them of trying to shut down the country's traditional meat-eating culture.more
In Velennes, located in the north of France, a stele commemorating the ace of Polish air force in the United Kingdom, captain Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, was unveiled yesterday. On August 18, 1944, he was killed in a battle over this town.more