His €4,000 fine came after being convicted for comments he made in TV debate when he referred to the first name of fellow speaker Hapsatou Sy as an "insult to France".
After years of Covid, and with inflation biting, many medics say chronic staff shortages and increasing demands are making their work impossible and threatening the French health system.
The 81-year-old had been fighting a rearguard action to keep his job since Sunday following disparaging comments made during a radio interview on the French broadcaster RMC about the former France international Zinedine Zidane.
Long-delayed pension overhaul pushes the retirement age to 64, a move opposed by four in every five citizens according to an Odoxa poll, at a time when many are already struggling with a cost-of-living crisis.
French football federation president Noël Le Graët had said that he "wouldn't even have taken his call" if former French star Zinedine Zidane turned manager had been in touch about running the national team.
Prime minister Élisabeth Borne is to detail on Tuesday plans to make the French work longer, most likely by raising the retirement age to 64 or 65 from 62 currently.
Judges in Paris considering a case involving use of banned pesticide chlordecone in Martinique and Guadeloupe ruled that it’s too hard to determine who’s to blame for acts committed so long ago.
French president Emmanuel Macron has announced an overhaul of France’s struggling health system, including new funding methods for doctors and hospitals, more hiring and other organizational changes.
The recruitment of judges, simplifying the penal procedure, modernising civil law and the crisis in French prisons are just some of the contentious topics covered in justice minister Éric Dupond-Moretti's planned reforms.
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