A French radio station put a volunteer panel of native French speakers through the same test of French-language skills applied to foreigners seeking French nationality or longterm residency, and found that half of the volunteers failed the written exam.
A grenade attack on a bar in Grenoble, south-east France, which left 12 people wounded, two of them critically, is not being treated as a terrorist attack, a local prosecutor said, but as a possible 'settling of scores'.
The rise in a so-called 'solidarity tax' beginning in March will see economy class short-haul flights departing from France for destinations within Europe increase from 2.63 euros to 7.40 euros, while tax on medium-haul routes will rise to 15 euros, and on long distance flights it will climb to 40 euros.
Around 55 percent of the 54 square kilometres of Amsterdam Island, situated in the southern Indian Ocean and mostly inhabited by scientific researchers, has been destroyed by a wildfire that began in January.
Around 55 percent of the 54 square kilometres of Amsterdam Island, situated in the southern Indian Ocean and mostly inhabited by scientific researchers, has been destroyed by a wildfire that began in January.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou faced more questions in parliament on Wednesday over Mediapart’s revelations that he failed to intervene in a scandal of violence and sexual assaults against pupils of a Catholic secondary school in his political fiefdom in south-west France, despite being made aware of the events. He told parliament that he was “never” informed of the attacks. Mediapart can reveal documents and first-hand accounts that indicate the contrary. David Perrotin and Antton Rouget report.
Britain and the US have declined to sign up to a declaration of intent at an international summit on the global development of artificial intelligence, hosted by Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and which underlined the need to ensure that 'AI is open, inclusive, transparent [and] ethical'.
Following the discovery six days ago of the bodies of a British couple at their home in south-west France, prosecutors on Tuesday confirmed that Dawn Searle, 56, died from several blows to the head with a 'blunt and sharp object', while her husband Andrew Searle, 65, died from hanging.
By attacking the rule of law, the newly-installed United States president is weakening democratic checks and balances and undermining resistance. His blizzard of executive orders echoes the US military's 'shock and awe' tactics of the Iraq War and has left opponents reeling. In order to oppose this catastrophic state of affairs, argues Mediapart's publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article, we urgently need to put an end to factional infighting, form a united front and confront it head on.
Local mayor speaks out after the bodies of Dawn and Andrew Searle, who were in their sixties, were discovered by a neighbour on Thursday at their home in south west France.
It is thought that, on average, a child dies at the hands of their parents every five days in France. But this is just an estimate as no detailed and centralised record is kept of the number of children killed in this way each year. In an investigation Mediapart has examined the deaths of 46 young children who met a violent end within their family in 2024. Often these killings are treated as isolated “cases”. But the sheer number of such deaths shows the extent to which fatal violence against young children is systemic in the country. “Infanticide is the tip of the iceberg of the particular violence inflicted on children in a society where adults dominate them in countless ways,” says one campaigner. Mathilde Mathieu reports.
