Speaking before the French senate on plans for territorial reorganisation in France, President Emmanuel Macron said his government would this autumn move a reform to 'drastically simplify' the administrative structure of the Greater Paris region where a population of about ten million people governed by a patchwork of independent authorities.
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund, which has met with French government ministers and business figures in Paris, on Monday praised President Emmanuel Macron for what it called an 'ambitious', 'comprehensive' and 'balanced' economic reform plan, which will begin this autumn with an overhaul of labour market regulations.
The massive fires that destroyed hundreds of hectares close to the Provençal town of Aix-en-Provence this weekend, cutting off roads and rail lines, are believed to have been cause by a discarded cigarette officials said, as soaring temperatures in southern France this week are keeping firefighters on alert.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose hard-line politics have come in for fierce criticism in France, attended the 75th anniversary of an infamous WW2 roundup in Paris for deportation of about 13,000 Jews, after which the two men held talks on the crises in the Middle East.
The City of London's envoy to the EU, Jeremy Browne, has said French the authorities were seeking "the weakening of Britain, the ongoing degradation of the City" and "are in favour of the hardest Brexit" in a leaked memorandum written after he attended talks with various French authorities earlier this month.
The City of London's envoy to the EU, Jeremy Browne, has said French the authorities were seeking "the weakening of Britain, the ongoing degradation of the City" and "are in favour of the hardest Brexit" in a leaked memorandum written after he attended talks with various French authorities earlier this month.
A visit to Paris on Sunday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when he will join in a commemoration of the 1942 arrest in the French capital for deportation of an estimated 13,000 Jews, has been criticised in France by Jewish organisations and others as handing his government an unwelcome political platform.
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking in Qatar, where he met with his counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, called on Saturday for the lifting 'as soon as possible' of the sanctions against Qatari nationals imposed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt which affect 'bi-national families that have been separated or students'.
Three young American men –Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone – who overpowered a 25-year-old Moroccan national armed with an assault rifle on a Paris-bound Thalys high-speed train in August 2015 have been cast by Clint Eastwood to play themselves in a film about the events.
A British newspaper claims to have discovered archived proof that President Emmanuel Macron is the descendant of a Bristol butcher who was decorated for his actions in World War One before settling in northern France and marrying a French woman with whom he had three daughters, one of who became Macron's grandmother.
