France

Cinema

Fatima: the power of "invisible people" rarely seen on the silver screen

French director, “Philippe Faucon”: http://www.istiqlal-films.com/ has been filming people he calls “the invisibles” for a long time; people who

30/10/2015

Economy

Air France-KLM defends cost cuts despite soaring profits

Air France-KLM has announced a larger-than-expected rise in third-quarter profits – while insisting that there’s still an “overwhelming need” to cut

29/10/2015

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Hot chocolate models

Models take to the catwalk in Paris dressed head-to-toe in chocolate creations as part of an annual event to celebrate all things chocolate.

29/10/2015

Europe News

MEPs reject net neutrality rule changes

MEPs voted on Tuesday against plans to amend legislation that aims to protect “net neutrality” in the EU. Proposed changes to an EU regulation on how

28/10/2015

France

Hollande vows to find 'truth' about French pensioner bus crash

French President Francois Hollande has promised to find “the truth” about a major bus crash last week in southwestern France. Hollande met the

27/10/2015

France

IARC risks confusion with report on cancer-causing meats

The International Agency of Research into Cancer (IARC) has been accused of misleading the public and the media after classifying processed meat

26/10/2015

Economy

France sees rare fall in jobless total

There are signs that the economic recovery may at last be reaching the French labour market. The jobless total fell by nearly 24,000, or 0.7 percent

26/10/2015

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France: Friends and relatives pay homage to victims of bus crash

At a ceremony in the small village of Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps in France hundreds of people mourn the victims of the bus crash that left 43 dead.

26/10/2015

France

What went wrong? France probes horror bus crash that left dozens dead

A long and difficult investigation lies ahead after France’s deadliest road crash in more than 30 years. At least 43 people were killed and four

24/10/2015

Sport

Champagne to run for FIFA presidency

Frenchman Jerome Champagne has announced he is to run for the presidency of football’s embattled governing body FIFA. The 57-year-old former diplomat

23/10/2015

France

France in mourning after pensioners killed in horror bus crash

At least 43 people, most of them pensioners on a hiking trip, have been killed after the bus they were travelling in collided with a truck. The

23/10/2015

Economy

Investment, innovation help job prospects in France, Italy, Portugal

France is showing a slight improvement in its employment figures as a result of the first economic growth since 2007. Examples from the automobile

23/10/2015

France

France bus crash: 'some of the victims were burned alive'

France is mourning the victims of the country’s worst road disaster in 33 years. At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were

23/10/2015

Cinema

Luc Jacquet talks Ice and Sky to euronews

A decade after his Oscar-winning documentary ‘March of the Penguins’, French director Luc Jacquet is back with ‘Ice and the Sky’. It tells the story

23/10/2015

France

Forty-three dead after bus crash near Bordeaux, France

23/10/2015

France

Protests as Air France confirms 1,000 job losses in 2016

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and across France on Thursday to defend jobs at Air France – as the carrier confirmed that

23/10/2015

France

Calais: Cazeneuve rejects high-profile attack over "The Jungle"

The French Interior Minister has rejected accusations that his government is not doing enough to improve conditions in the enormous migrant camp at

21/10/2015

France

France: PM Valls says perpetrators of traveller riots will be apprehended

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says the perpetrators of violent riots in the south east of the country will be brought to justice. Dozens of cars

21/10/2015

Culture news

Sex in the city at Paris' Musée d'Orsay

One of the world’s most respected museums has become the first to stage an exhibition on prostitution. ‘Splendour and Misery. Pictures of

21/10/2015

France

French travellers cut road and rail links near Grenoble to demand prison release for funeral

A group of around 30 travellers raided a scrapyard and blocked a road in the French alps in Moirans near Grenoble on Tuesday, setting the wrecks

21/10/2015

France

Marine Le Pen appears in French court on charge of inciting racial hatred

Marine Le Pen has appeared in court in France, accused of inciting racial hatred. The French National Front leader denies the charge. Avec notre

20/10/2015

Sport

2016 Tour de France route unveiled

The route for the 2016 Tour de France was unveiled at a glitzy ceremony in the French capital Paris on Tuesday. The 103rd edition of cycling’s most

20/10/2015

Economy

Credit Agricole to pay $787m over sanctions-busting - US authorities

US authorities say a subsidiary of Credit Agricole has agreed to pay a multi-million dollar fine over allegations that it violated sanctions against

20/10/2015

Cinema

Exclusive: Mads Mikkelsen and Nicolas Winding Refn chat to Euronews

Denmark was given a place of honour at this year’s Lumiere festival in Lyon with award-winning actor Mads Mikkelsen and fellow Cannes laureate

20/10/2015

France

Tour of Peace, Tour of Memory; 2016 Tour de France route unveiled

The route for the 2016 Tour de France has been announced at a ceremony in Paris. The Grand Depart takes place at Mont-Saint-Michel on July 2. The

20/10/2015

France

Cannabis: seven tonnes seized in Paris

French President Francois Hollande has praised the work of police and customs officers who have seized more than seven tonnes of cannabis resin from

19/10/2015