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The nominal deficit last year was 4.8% of GDP while public debt rose last year to 1.8tn euros, representing a record 90.2% of GDP.

The French president, in a lengthy prime-time television interview Thursday evening, vowed to create growth but forecast continuing jobless rise.

Senior scholars publish a statement in support of move to ‘take knowledge out of silos’ through open access to French science journals.

Rules on the length of a baguette or the composition of pavement concrete cost France an estimated 2 billion euros between 2008-2011.

Jean-Louis Gentil is targeted by death threats over his investigation into suspected illegal financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign.

The soldier was arrested at army barracks in Castres and is reported to be an aquaintance of Mohamed Merah who shot dead seven people last year.

French police arrest 16 youths suspected of holding up a suburban train near Paris in March and robbing passengers of valuables.

Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni tells French radio it is 'unthinkable' that he could have abused the frailty of a woman who was his mother's age.

The number of people out of work in France in February climbed towards the record of 3.196 reached in January 1997.

Alain Afflelou, who owns Europe's largest optician franchise chain, was said to be "stunned" that his jet was used to carry 700 kilos of cocaine.