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Outrage as Polanski leads Cesar nominations despite rape allegations

Film director Roman Polanski received 12 Cesar nominations on Wednesday for ‘An Officer and a Spy’ despite facing fresh rape allegations.

30/01/2020

France

MAR: France grapples with who should benefit

French senators say medically assisted reproduction should only be free for single women or lesbian couples if they're infertile.

30/01/2020

France

Petition signed by 33,000 people to get British man French citizenship

Mark Lawrence has lived in France for 30 years but had his citizenship request rejected.

29/01/2020

France

France bans male chicks culling and live piglet castration

France is to ban the culling of male chicks and the castrating of piglets without anaesthesia in a move welcomed by animal welfare groups.

29/01/2020

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French firemen scuffle with police during Paris protest

They were demanding better working conditions.

28/01/2020

France

European rugby club signs player who said 'hell awaits' gay people

Israel Folau was sacked from the Australian national rugby union team last year over homophobic comments he made on social media. Now he's sparked shock by signing for Catalan Dragons.

28/01/2020

France

French firefighters scuffle with police during Paris protest

Firefighters from across France have joined the protest in Paris to call for better working conditions and a raise in risk pay.

28/01/2020

World

French oil giant Total in court over carbon emissions

It is the first such case against a private company in France.

28/01/2020

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Watch: Chinese New Year is celebrated at the Eiffel Tower

Performances took place in Paris on Saturday.

25/01/2020

Europe News

Locals still searching for answers over Jewish cemetery attack

'We don't know why they attack (the graves), they are dead,' said one local in the community near Strasbourg.

24/01/2020

France

Fresh strikes and protests as Macron pushes ahead with pension reforms

It's being seen as a last-ditch attempt to revive opposition to Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reforms.

24/01/2020

France

France and Netherlands dismantle major migrant smuggling ring to UK

French and Dutch police have arrested 23 people they suspect to have facilitated the illegal transport of 10,000 Kurdish migrants into the UK.

23/01/2020

France

France vows to punish strikers who cut power to thousands

Striking energy workers who deprived up to 35,000 people of power could face up to two years in jail.

22/01/2020

France

French publisher apologises for CIA 9/11 conspiracy theory in textbook

Textbook publisher Ellipses said it bitterly regretted the mistake that suggested 9/11 was orchestrated by the CIA.

21/01/2020

France

Ex-Interpol chief who vanished on China trip sentenced for bribes

Meng's wife, who remains in France with their two children, has accused Chinese authorities of lying and questioned whether her husband was even alive.

21/01/2020

France

After the strike, will France face more radical forms of protest?

Transport services resumed on Monday after 46 days of strikes. But is the country headed towards more punctual and violent forms of protests? Euronews takes a look.

20/01/2020

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Striking Paris Opera holds free open-air concert

Saturday's concert comes after six weeks of labour strikes and nationwide protests against government plans to overhaul France's pension system.

19/01/2020

France

Blaze at Macron-visited Paris restaurant as pension protests continue

A small fire was quickly put out at La Rotonde restaurant in the early hours on Saturday after a string of demonstrations across the city over pension reform proposals.

18/01/2020

France

Paris metro workers to pause pension strike to 'recharge batteries'

The biggest union for Paris metro workers said on Saturday it would pause striking in order to "recharge" and "re-orient" the movement.

18/01/2020

France

Will women really be the biggest winners of France’s pension reforms?

Will French women actually benefit from the new pension system and what can we learn from the examples of other European countries? Euronews answers.

18/01/2020

Living

Could air pollution be affecting your menstrual cycle?

A new study in France suggests the length of a woman's menstrual cycle might be impacted by pollution.

17/01/2020

France

Michelin under fire over Paul Bocuse restaurant downgrade

French celebrity chef Marc Veryat said the decision was 'a scandal' and even President Emmanuel Macron has weighed in.

17/01/2020

France

Macron will not release any more bears in the Pyrenees, herders say

Bears were responsible for 400 attacks against livestock in the border region in 2018, they say.

17/01/2020

France

Marine le Pen says she will run in 2022 French presidential elections

The French far-right candidate ran against Emmanuel Macron and lost in 2017.

16/01/2020

France

MEPs from the UK prepare to leave the European Parliament

They're heading into their final plenary session before they come out of the EP at the end of the month.

16/01/2020

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Sea Shepherd brings dead dolphins to central Paris to make their point

They say certain fishing methods are seeing the dolphins accidentally killed.

14/01/2020