French president Emmanuel Macron vowed to stamp out Holocaust denial as he paid homage to thousands of French Jewish children sent to death camps 80 years ago.
Caroline Cayeux, minister for territorial cohesion, initially stood by her views her opposition to the law for same-sex marriage and adoption in 2013, when she she called the reform a "caprice" and "plan that goes against nature".
Multiple fires have already broken out with two major conflagrations in the Gironde department in the south-west and temperatures in the north are expected to match those of the south of France with peaks of 40 degrees across the country.
Ian Byrne has written to President Emmanuel Macron calling for a formal apology after a French Senate report said Liverpool fans were not to blame for the chaos at Champions League final at Stade de France in May.
In the Bastille Day interview the president also called on the French to reduce energy use and waste saying that using less energy was a good thing both "for the climate and also for our energy independence".
English fans scapegoated for the fiasco surrounding the Champions League final to "divert attention" from organisational failures, a scathing French Senate report says.
Move came amid calls for an inquiry and criticism that Macron had done Uber’s bidding at the expense of workers’ rights and against the will of the left-leaning government he served in as a minister at the time.
The leftwing NUPES coalition triggered the motion in the wake of prime minister Élisabeth Borne’s first major speech to the National Assembly.
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