France

Cinema

German filmmaker Wim Wenders honoured at Lyon's Festival Lumière

Euronews spoke with decorated German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who received the 15th Prix Lumière at this year's Festival Lumière in Lyon.

24/10/2023

France

Two detained in France over possible link to Brussels gunman

The two men are suspected of having conspired with Abdesalem Lassoued, the 45-year-old Tunisian national who killed two Swedes in Brussels on 16 October.

24/10/2023

Health news

France issues warning against using nasal decongestant cold medicines

France's medicines agency warned people not to take oral nasal decongestant medicines containing pseudoephedrine over potential risk of strokes.

23/10/2023

Green News

France’s football teams to travel by train for trips under 3 hours

Allez les bleus: How are French and English football teams cutting down on carbon emissions?

23/10/2023

Green News

French police clash with protesters over new motorway construction

Activists say the construction will have disastrous effects on the surrounding environment and biodiversity.

23/10/2023

Travel News

Bomb hoaxes: What to know if you are travelling to France

France has been on its highest security alert level since 13 October and has seen a spate of false bomb threats and security alerts.

23/10/2023

France

South Africa beats England and sails through to Rugby World Cup final

England led for the entire match before Handre Pollard's boot — from about 50 metres — swung the Springboks into a second straight Rugby World Cup final at the very end and cruelly denied the English again.

22/10/2023

Business

France: €1.7 billion investment on uranium to cut ties with Russia

French nuclear energy company Orano is investing €1.7 billion to increase its uranium-enrichment capacity and reduce dependency on Russia.

20/10/2023

France

Mourners in Arras pays tribute to teacher killed by former student

The murder of Dominique Bernard on 13 October, almost three years to the day after the murder of history and geography teacher Samuel Paty in the Paris region, sent shockwaves through the teaching profession in particular.

19/10/2023

Green News

Why did a nun rugby tackle an environmental activist in France?

A long running dispute between a religious order and ecologists in France turned physical this week as local police call for calm.

19/10/2023

Culture news

France opens historic cultural space dedicated to French language

Visitors will be able to view the famous Villers-Cotterêts ordinance, signed in 1539 by François I, as well as receive personalised reading recommendations from an artificial intelligence machine.

19/10/2023

Sport

Calls to strip footballer Karim Benzema of French citizenship

It comes after French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said in a television interview that Benzema is "notoriously linked with the Muslim Brotherhood."

19/10/2023

Space

Scientists train astronauts to solve health emergencies in space

From ultrasound technology to pioneering surgical techniques in microgravity, radiology could play a major role in space medicine.

19/10/2023

Nature

Can France’s ‘mosaic forest’ withstand the storm of climate change

A patchwork of 4,200 hectares of forest is being adapted for rising temperatures.

18/10/2023

France

French airports evacuated after spate of bomb threats

Although passengers have been let back into the terminals, several of the airports are experiencing ongoing delays to arriving and departing flights.

18/10/2023

Business

France extends 0% interest rate loans for low-income households

Mortgages granted to low-income first-time homeowners will increase from €80,000 to €100,000 in 2024. The eligibility criteria for the fiscal measure will also be broadened, in an effort to help more people get on the property ladder.

18/10/2023

Art

Mark Rothko's masterpieces on show in historic Paris retrospective

The Louis Vuitton Foundation presents the first retrospective in France dedicated to Mark Rothko since the exhibition held at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999.

18/10/2023

Travel News

More French airports evacuated following new bomb threats

France was placed on the highest possible level of security alert last Friday after a fatal knife attack at a school.

16/10/2023

France

MEPs headed to EU Parliament 'accidentally' end up in Disneyland

Several hundred MEPs travelling from Brussels to Strasbourg on Monday for the EU Parliament's plenary session were accidentally rerouted to the train station serving Disneyland.

16/10/2023

France

Euroviews. Fighting food insecurity means following the urban lead

My fellow local leaders and I urge the EU to not further delay action and keep the promises of the European Green Deal, Vice-President of Lyon Métropole Jérémy Camus writes.

16/10/2023

France

France to screen foreigners with radical record for possible expulsion

The French administration is to carry out a review to determine which foreigners with a record of radicalism can be expelled from the country.

16/10/2023

France

Louvre and Versailles evacuated after emergency alerts

As concerns over attacks mount in the country, two of the most iconic French monuments were evacuated on Saturday following alerts.

14/10/2023

Markets

There’s a wave of French plant-based startups but is it too late?

Umiami is the latest French meat alternative startup aiming at the European market, but it’s a competitive field.

14/10/2023

France

Marine Le Pen convicted of defamation against French NGO

Marine Le Pen was convicted of defamation against a French NGO helping migrants, Cimade, which she had accused of being accomplices to smugglers. She was ordered to pay €500 and sustain court costs.

13/10/2023

Healthcare

'We feel harassed’: Doctors in France protest working conditions

General practitioners in France say they have too much administrative work and that patients can’t find a primary care doctor. They are going on strike on October 13.

13/10/2023

France

France mobilises 7,000 soldiers and goes on high terror alert

Saturday's mobilisation announcement came after President Macron held an emergency security cabinet meeting on Friday evening.

13/10/2023