French art world is fiercely opposed to the project to display artwork in London, with experts fearing the 230 foot-long masterpiece is in far too delicate a state to be transported across the Channel.
More than 2,000 children are sleeping rough on the streets of France due to a lack of emergency shelter, new figures show, and aid groups are demanding the French government take urgent action.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou, whose minority government already faced almost certain defeat of its draft budget legislation in October, which includes vast public spending cuts, has called for a confidence vote in the country's hung parliament on September 8th which is mathematically impossible for him to win, and which would force his departure.
The French foreign affairs ministry has summoned the US ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, the Jewish father-in-law of US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka, to complain about his open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron published in The Wall Street Journal alleging a 'lack of sufficient action by your government' to confront anti-Semitism.
The Italian ambassador to France was on Friday summoned to a meeting at the French foreign affairs ministry to be told that Paris considered a comment by Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, in which he mockingly dismissed Emmanuel Macron's suggestion that European troops cound be sent to Ukraine in the case of a peace agreement with Russia, to be 'unacceptable'.
A police investigation has been launched after several cars belonging to Orthodox Jewish tourists - including a group from London - staying in the French Alpine resort of Chatel, close to the Swiss border, were spray-painted with the slogan 'Free Palestine'.
