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Police clear Paris protest camp but 'Up All Night' movement vows to return

Police in Paris have evacuated a protest camp in the city’s Place de la Republique, occupied for 11 consecutive nights by demonstrators demanding

Sport

Rugby: Machenaud kicks Racing past Toulon and into semi-final with Leicester

Racing 92 booked a semi-final showdown with Leicester in the European Cup after beating Toulon in an all French quarter-final. Having kicked the

World News

French protesters take to the streets against planned labour reforms

Protesters staged overnight sit-ins in Place de la Republique in Paris and other cities across France on Sunday. The Nuit Debout, or Up All Night

Belgium

Belgium arrests key suspects in Brussels attacks

Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was arrested on Friday along with four others, the Belgian federal prosecutors have confirmed. They are working to determine whether he is also the man wanted in c

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France

Gay hairdressers can legally be called "faggots" in France

Industrial tribunal in Paris rules the word is insulting but not discriminatory

Business Series

Italy's Mediaset sells pay-TV unit to Vivendi and agrees share swap

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has agreed to sell its pay-TV unit to French media group Vivendi. The deal also includes a 3.5 percent share swap

World

Michel Sapin on global tax cooperation, and why we need Europe

The French finance minister discusses the 'Panama Papers,' how to cut deficit, the eurozone economy and the future of Europe.

My Europe Series

Cash from containers - Europe's security companies making money from misery

The extra costs of migration are a favourite theme of critics of Europe taking any in more, but what about the economy? A whole new sector is springing up and there's no shortage of firms wanting thei

Cinema

'Tomorrow': a message of hope for a better, greener and more sustainable future

‘Tomorrow’ is an inspiring documentary by French filmmakers Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion.

France

Protests over French labour reforms spread to more cities

Protests in Paris against against proposed labour reforms have spread to other French cities, including Marseille, Lille, Nantes, Rennes and

Economy

Wine war: French ambassador summoned over Spanish truck attacks

Spain’s Foreign Ministry has summoned France’s ambassador after French farmers hijacked Spanish trucks at the border and drained their cargo of wine

World News

France and Germany back EU-Ukraine deal despite Dutch 'No' vote

France and Germany are to continue to back the EU agreement on closer ties with Ukraine, despite Dutch voters’ rejection of the pact. The pledge came

France

France passes divisive law criminalising customers rather than sex workers

Prostitute clients in France to face 1500 euro fine if caught Law aimed as protecting exploited women Critics say it will push sex workers further

World News

Fined for buying sex: French parliament votes to punish prostitutes' clients

Following a final vote in parliament on Wednesday, France has become the latest European country to punish prostitutes’ clients who will face a 1,500

France

France: Le Pen fined 30,000 euros for latest 'gas chamber' remark

The former leader of France’s far-right Front National, Jean Marie Le-Pen, was fined 30,000 euros on Wednesday for repeating his claim that the Nazi

France

The new price of paying for sex in France - hefty fines and classes

France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, has passed a bill that outlaws payment for sex and penalises prostitutes’ clients. The

Sport

Bordeaux carries out mock terrorist attack ahead of Euro 2016

With the Brussels and Paris attacks fresh on everyone’s mind and France poised to host the Euro 2016 football tournament. Authorities in the French

France

French Front National denies implication in Panama Papers

Figures close to the French Front National leader Marine Le Pen and her father, the party’s former frontman, are reportedly named as having set up

France

Fewer students turn out for French labour reform protest

There have been more clashes between police and protesters in Paris during student demonstrations against French labour reforms. Tear gas was used to

Business Series

Peugeot unveils new plan to maintain profit

French carmaker, Peugeot Citroen, has unveiled its plans to return to consistent sales growth. In what chief executive Carlos Tavares described as a

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