In a speech on Sunday to supporters of her Rassemblement National (National Rally) party in the southern French town of Fréjus, far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her party would campaign 'in liaison' with its Europe of Nations and Freedom party allies for next May’s European Parliament elections, which President Emmanuel Macron has billed as a battle between anti-immigrant populists like Le Pen and pro-European Union progressives like himself.
Marseille-based photographer Arnaud Teicher has specialised in following the regrowth of forests and scrublands after their devastation by fire, and has made a series called Wildfire which demonstrates how even lanscapes seemingly reduced to earth and rock have the capacity to spring back to life with self-renewed vegetation.
President Emmanuel Macron's government is to abolish in January next year a so-called 'exit tax', introduced by conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy and which required individuals with more than 800,000 euros-worth of assets in stocks and bonds, or at least 50 percent of the capital of a company, to pay capital gains on assets sold up to 15 years after they left the country.
A Paris court handed two men jail sentences for their part in the killing of student Clément Méric, 18, during a brawl between far-right skinheads and anti-fascist militants in Paris in 2013, and which led to the banning of a number of far-right groups.
Geologists from the University of Plymouth have found evidence in the rocks of south-west England suggesting the landmass of Armorica, which contains modern-day France, also played a part in creating Britain along with the ancient landmasses of Avalonia and Laurentia which merged over 400 million years ago.
French President Emmanuel Macron, whose reform policies, notably tax breaks for the wealthy and public spending cuts, have earned him the nickname by opponents of 'president of the rich', on Thursday unveiled a drive to reduce poverty in France, which affects an estimated 14% of the population, costed at 8 billion euros over four years.
The French railways operator, the SNCF, has announced it will begin introducing fully automated driverless trains on long-distance passenger and freight services by 2023, although initially with a standby human presence in the command cabin.
In a highly symbolic ceremony, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday met the 87-year-old widow of Maurice Audin, a communist mathematician who disappeared in 1957 after being arrested by the French military during the seven-year Algerian war of independence, when he apologised to Josette Audin on behalf of the French state and, in the first official admission of its kind, acknowledged the army's systematic use of torture during the conflict.
Six people have been detained in the north-east French city of Lille in connection with a series of recent attacks on nine commercial businesses there, including against a butchers shop and a McDonald's fast-food branch, when windows were smashed and fake blood was daubed on walls.
A recommendation by leading French think tank Institut Montaigne that teaching of the Arabic language in schools should be developed to counter the increasing popularity of Arabic courses offered by radical Islamists in mosques and schools was welcomed by education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, but has met with strong cticism from conservatives and the far-right.
