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Law and order remains an issue of national concern after urban riots broke out in June following the police killing of a young motorist in the Paris suburbs. 

France’s entire cabinet decamps for team-building ‘retreat’ in Hamburg, including drinks and a boat trip, amid warnings fractious relationship is slowing down key EU decisions.

The French capital has been particularly affected by the infestation, which has become a growing problem in the country over the past few years; and the pests have been spotted on trains and in cinemas in recent weeks.

Paris public prosecutor's office said a preliminary investigation had been launched in 2022 and confirmed that transactions involving French billionaire Arnault and Russian businessman Nikolai Sarkisov had been attached to these. The probe concerns the pair's activities in Courchevel in the French Alps.

Rights groups hope to bring end to discrimination they say has gone unaddressed by successive governments.

President said it was time to build constitutional autonomy for the island, but without any disengagement from the French republic.

London has found an ally in Germany in its push for a stay of execution on tariffs due to kick in next January.

Announcement from prime minister Élisabeth Borne follows the suicide deaths of several teenagers that have sparked widespread indignation in recent years. 

Finance minister Bruno Le Maire put gross domestic product growth at 1.4 percent for next year, which compares to a 0.8 percent consensus among leading forecasters, and 0.9 percent from the country's central bank.

French sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra said French athletes will not be allowed to wear a hijab at the Paris Olympics next year, arguing in favor of “a strict regime of secularism, applied rigorously in the field of sport.”