French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), a hothouse for those who make up France's political, economic and civil service jobs-for-life elite – and from where he himself graduated – is to be closed
Mediapart has published a series of investigations into the circumstances of the 7.8-billion-euro sale by France to India of 36 Rafale fighter jets, which is clouded by suspicions of large-scale corruption. In this short video with English subtitles, Yann Philippin explains the key revelations and background of Mediapart’s investigations into this most complex story.
Rightwing opponents of socialist Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo have jumped onto a social media buzz that went viral over the Easter weekend highlighting uncollected rubbish and graffiti on the streets of the French capital, which Paris city hall officials have denounced as a 'political smear cmpaign'.
Prosecutors have started an investigation after a television report about secret meals in luxury restaurants in Paris in breach of Covid-19 restrictions - some allegedly attended by French governemnt ministers.
The former minister and ex-owner of Marseille football club and his wife Dominique were asleep when four men broke into their house in Combs-la-Ville near Paris, beat them and tied them up with electrical cords.
The French president has imposed a national lockdown, but he still will not own up to his mistakes and broken promises, argues academic Philippe Marlière.
Call to address severe poverty and illegal immigration on the Indian Ocean island, ten years after it officially became the 101st department of France.
French journalist Sandra Muller, who coined the viral hashtag #balancetonporc ("expose your pig"), had been sued by the man she accused of sexual harassment.
French president said in TV address that 'we will lose control if we do not move now', adding that France faces a 'race against the clock'.
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