The French government has halted passenger flights to and from Brazil in a move to contain the spread of a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus, believed to partly accountable for the South American country's spike in deaths from Covid-19, which has already been found in France.
France's aid fund for agricultural catastrophes is to be increased, Prime Minister Jean Casteix has announced, after continuing severe nationwide frosts that followed exceptionally mild weather have wiped out many crops in the bud, especially fruit and including vast amounts of grapes in winegrowing regions.
Following alarming reports of a surge in cases of mental illness among children due to isolating restrictions and anguish brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, including attempted suicides and self-harming, French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced measures to allow free psychiatric counselling for affected minors.
Freezing conditions and exceptional frost over recent days in many winegrowing regions of France where, even in the south, overnight temperatures have plunged to minus 8° Celsius, have destroyed grape buds, leaving some farmers to predict the yield at harvest this year will plunge by as much as 90%.
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
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.
