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“The countdown has been started. I am here to warn you,” France's Junior Environment Minister Sebastien Lecornu said when he visited Notre-Dame-Des-Landes in western France Saturday. He gave an ultimatum to protesters called “zadistes” to leave the area, but the squatters said they would fight until the end.

President Macron is confident that his government will win the battle of ideas behind the biggest industrial conflict of his ten-month old administration. Mr Macron pitched his rail reform squarely along the lines of ancient versus modern that won him the presidency. The unions have embraced the same ...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said that the government will not back down on its planned rail reforms after three months of rolling strikes kicked off in France on Tuesday. Major rail disruption is set to continue on Wednesday. Defending the reform of the SNCF, the prime minister said he heard ...

Paris 2024 volleyball and badminton “abnormally expensive” French Government inspectors warn. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Print Share to Email Share to More. Add comment. By Mike Rowbottom; Sunday, 1 April 2018 ...

More well-intentioned lawmaking is resulting in terrible legislation proposals. France is looking to Germany for guidance for the first time in a long time, thanks to its Prime Minister's desire to regulate "hate speech" on the internet. Edourd Philippe has apparently overlooked the disastrous roll out of ...

The French government unveiled a new strategic initiative today that seeks to make the country a world leader in artificial intelligence without compromising its notions of privacy and security. The outlined proposals got a lift from a series of related corporate announcements, including plans by Google's ...

A lawyer and a senior lecturer at Sciences Po, Bernard Carayon has been a prominent right-wing member of the French National Assembly for 15 years. Well aware of the challenges caused by globalization to French and European companies, Carayon has put forward the need to provide them with more ...

As the French website Madmoizelle noted, the video's widespread impact caused politicians around Europe to react. The city of Brussels, for example, decided shortly thereafter that this type of sexual harassment would be punishable by law. Last Wednesday, the French government joined Brussels by ...

The 'TGV of the Future' design is expected to feature short-wheelbase power cars and double-deck trailer cars. FRANCE: Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said that the government is to place a firm order with Alstom 'by the end of June' for 100 TGV trainsets. He was addressing a press conference on ...

The French government believes that the activities of this group will enable it to get rid of money laundering activities, tax evasion, and other criminal activities. The minister of the economy while speaking to the media earlier on this week said: “No consumer … or entrepreneur can carry out a transaction, ...

The French government is taking a different stance on ICOs than the many other governments that have cracked down on the fundraising method, with some going as far as issuing a blanket ban. Moreover, the proposal suggests installing a truly liberal optional authorization scheme, enabling companies to ...

"We have freedom of movement in the EU, and of course the German government can meet the French government without us being there," Rutte told Spiegel in an interview. "But that doesn't mean that we and other EU countries agree with everything the Germans and French agree on. We won't just nod ...

French government struggles to quell unrest as Indian Ocean island erupts over immigration ... The French government is struggling to end weeks of unrest on its Indian Ocean island of Mayotte as an influx of migrants from neighbouring islands has raised tensions and severely strained public services.

The French government is set to launch its first major sell off with Paris airports set to go under the hammer. The Local reported back in December last year that President Emmanuel Macron was planning a spring clear out with a raft of privatisations in the hope of raising more than €10 billion. The first asset ...

French government says Burkina situation 'under control'. By RFI Issued on 02-03-2018 Modified 02-03-2018 to 15:16. media Security personnel take cover as smoke billows from The Institute Francais in Ouagadougou on March 2, 2018, as the capital of Burkina Faso came under multiple attacks targeting the French ...

Emmanuel Macron's government will on Wednesday propose toughening France's immigration and asylum laws amid vocal criticism from human rights groups in a move that will test the unity of his left-and-right majority. The bill unveiled on Wednesday will double the time for which undocumented ...

FILE - In this Oct.9 2017 file photo, a French sheep breeder demonstrates with his animals against the rising wolf attacks on sheep herds in Lyon, central France. The French government has presented Monday Feb.19, 2018 a plan to ensure wolves' survival in the country as farmers repeatedly protest ...

The "universal national service" in France, one Emmanuel Macron's campaign promises, will be "mandatory," the government spokesman said Tuesday. "It will be universal, it will affect the entire age group [concerned] and it will be mandatory," said Benjamin Griveaux on France's radio stations Radio ...

French government accused of downplaying homelessness as Paris freezes. By RFI Issued on 11-02-2018 Modified 11-02-2018 to 17:07. media ... But city officials say the French government does not seem keen on the idea. The state's local representative has pulled out of the exercise, claiming that it was rushed and that ...

US online shopping giant Amazon on Monday announced it had settled a major tax claim in France and agreed to report all its French income locally in future. Amazon, one of the US tech giants accused of paying too little tax in Europe, said the deal related to a French claim for nearly 200 million euros ...

The biggest gamble I take in life — other than the one some six decades ago — is driving on America's highways. So, these last few columns on games of chance are atypical but I have to drive and some of the gambling trivia is fascinating. The first successful French lottery was created by an Italian.

Following years of delays after its first two offshore wind tenders France still has no operational wind farm off its coasts, but first factories for offshore turbines are set up, and GE recently announced it will produce its 12MW offshore flagship in the country. The French government's attempts to push down ...

media Protesters hold French and Mayotte flags as they gather on the Place de la Republique in Mamoutzou, on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, on 13 March, 2018. Ornella Lamberti/AFP. The French government hoped on Wednesday to have brokered an end to a month of protests on its Indian ...

The French government is taking a different stance on ICOs than the many other governments that have cracked down on the fundraising method, with some going as far as issuing a blanket ban. Moreover, the proposal suggests installing a truly liberal optional authorization scheme, enabling companies to ...

The French government has promised a high-speed reform of the state-owned rail network with the use of adminstrative decrees, putting it on collision course with trade unions who are to meet to discuss strike action. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Monday announced that the government would ...