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  • Paris plans 'eco tax' levy on flights leaving French airports

    France — Link

    French transport minister Elisabeth Borne has announced that France will impose as of 2020 an 'eco tax' on airline passenger's flight costs for travel leaving France, ranging from 1.5 euros on inter-Europe destinations to 18 euros for business class passengers travelling beyond EU countries, and which is intended to fund investment in less polluting travel.

  • Father denounces 'murder' of son after losing 'right-to-die' battle

    France — Link

    Doctors in a hospital in Reims, north-east France, have begun removing the last support systems keeping alive Vincent Lambert, who was left quadriplegic with what they say describe as irreversible brain damage following a traffic accident 11 years ago, after his parents finally lost their six-year legal battle opposing the move, a case which bitterly divided Lambert's family.   

  • Marathon trial of 'bullying' France Télécom bosses enters final week

    France — Link

    Relatives of some of the more than 30 staff at the telecoms giant, now renamed Orange, who committed suicide during a brutal job-axing and restructuration programme say they hope the verdicts at the end of a two-month trial of the company's former CEO and six other senior executives on moral harassment charges will serve to prevent similar management practices in other corporations.

  • Protests in Paris over violence against women in France

    France — Link

    Data collected by women's advocacy group show 74 women have so far been killed this year by their husband or partner in France.

  • Sarkozy sparks ridicule after photo shows him towering over wife

    France — Link

    Paris Match cover shows ex-president head and shoulders above his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy despite fact she is almost 10cm taller than him.

  • Samsung faces charges in France over ‘misleading’ foreign labour claims

    France — Link

    Two NGOs accuse smartphone maker’s French subsidiary of employing children aged under 16 at plants in China, Vietnam and South Korea.

  • Black French MP leads fight against racist online trolls

    France — Link

    After joining President Macron's ruling party in 2017, Laetitia Avia has regularly publicised the abuse and death threats she gets online.

  • Macron says EU nominations are positive for Europe

    France — Link

    French president praised 'capacities and competences' of French ex-minister Christine Lagarde who is set to be new European Central Bank boss.

  • France to ban smacking for good

    France — Link

    According to France's Childhood Foundation, 85 percent of French parents admit to smacking their children.

  • Macron rants against EU summit 'failure'

    France — Link

    French president said it was a 'very bad image for both the Council and for Europe' after states failed to agree over who should get EU's top jobs.

  • French police criticised for using pepper spray on climate protesters

    France — Link

    Video showing police officers removing seated demonstrators in Paris has caused outrage on social media in the country.

  • Heatwave may force nuclear power shutdown in France

    France — Link

    Even as air temperatures fall, shortages and excessive temperatures of river water used to cool reactors are worrying nuclear operators EDF.

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