Doliprane, a brand name for paracetomol, is France's most popular medicine and has become part of the social fabric of the country. So when it was revealed recently that French pharmaceutical company Sanofi plans to sell the subsidiary that makes the medicine to a private equity firm from the United States, there was public outcry. Yet despite earlier pledges over the need for health and medicine security - and about the need to reindustrialise the country - the Élysée has supported the move on the grounds that it shows that France is an attractive place for investors. Martine Orange reports.
The newly formed French government plans to adopt another, tougher immigration bill next year, and leading the charge is hardline interior minister Bruno Retailleau.
Lawyer for Kylian Mbappé says the footballer was "shocked" to see his name linked to a Swedish rape investigation and that the Real Madrid and France star will take legal action for defamation.
French president warned Israel’s prime minister not to forget that “his country was created by a UN decision”, a few days after the Israeli ambassador to France was summoned, and Israel repeatedly fired on UN peacekeepers.
France's new government under prime minister Michel Barnier last week announced details of its proposed budget, which aims to make up to 60 billion euros in savings. Part of the plan involves cutting jobs in education. Here in this op-ed article, Mediapart's education correspondent Mathilde Goanec wonders how the government will try to persuade the public to accept the decision to axe another 4,000 teaching posts, especially after it promised to place education at the heart of its concerns. She says ministers will resort to a lot of clever PR and rely on the now well-worn line that fewer teachers are needed because of declining demographics. Even though this argument does not stand up to scrutiny.
Laurent Vinatier, who worked for a Switzerland-based conflict mediation NGO, was arrested in June while gathering what prosecutors say was information on Russia's military.
Novelist Juliette Rousseau's latest work 'Péquenaude' is a book that is hard to categorise. It is a poetic and political narrative, rooted in a countryside that has been disfigured by agribusiness. As Amélie Poinssot notes, the author - who has returned to her native Brittany in western France after many years living in Paris – has written a work based around a rural world that is loved and damaged in equal measure.
On Monday French middle and high schools will be observing a minute of silence to commemorate Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, two teachers murdered during jihadist attacks in 2020 and 2023.
An already weakened Emmanuel Macron risks outrage from farmers as the rest of the EU races to get deal with Mercosur bloc of South American nations deal done.
The now closed online chat forum Coco, where Dominique Pelicot recruited men to rape his wife Gisèle after he secretly administered her drugs that rendered her unconcious, was cited in more than 23,000 reports of criminal activity while more than 480 victims had been involved in judicial proceedings involving the website, according to French prosecutors.
The body of a young woman who fell from a cruise ship near the UK island of Alderney, off the coast of Normandy, was retrieved from the sea early Saturday morning by a French search and rescue team helicopter.
Members of the organising committee of the Paris Olympics have denied accusations that Céline Dion mimed a pre-recorded performance of Édith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour, and that it had been tweaked in a studio to improve her pitch.
The warrant was issued after a French court on Friday handed former Australian rugby star Rocky Elsom, 41, a five-year jail sentence for forgery and embezzlement of around 700,000 euros during his time as chairman of rugby club RC Narbonne, in southern France, from 2015 to 2016.
