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France ends Roma repatriation payment scheme

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Payments of 300 euros per adult and 100 euros per child to Roma migrants who accept to return to their country of origin to be scrapped this month.

Corsica holiday home bombings 'a kind of racism', says French interior minister

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Manuel Valls says bombings of holiday homes on Corsica on Friday was 'a kind of racism', implicitly implicating nationalists over the attacks.

Former French peacekeepers convicted of Ivorian man's murder

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Three former French soldiers given suspended sentences for their roles in murder of Ivorian man during peacekeeping operations in the African state.

Lakshmi Mittal vows to 'deliver on committments' in France

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ArcelorMittal chief sends letter to workers promising to maintain steel production in France and honour committments over troubled Florange site.

The Economist sees 'compte à rebours' for Montebourg

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French industry minister Arnaud Montebourg's recent awkward encounters with economic hot potatoes raise questions over his future in government.

ArcelorMittal shatters Florange hopes by pulling out of UCLOS plan

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ArcelorMittal pulls its application to use troubled site for an EU project in less-polluting steel, dashing hopes of keeping two blast furnaces going.

French jobless rate is 10.3% in third quarter, highest since 1999

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Unemployment rate in France rose from 10.2% in 2012 second quarter to 10.3 percent in third quarter, its highest since the third quarter of 1999.

The guillotine lives on, underground, in the Palace of Versailles

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At the Palace of Versailles continues a 330-year professional lineage that the Sun King considered one of the most important in his household.

Polish builders raze Bordeaux chateau 'by accident'

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The former French owner of an 18th century Bordeaux chateau razed to the ground by Polish builders has said her family is 'traumatised'.

'City of Light' to lose its overnight shine

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The French government announces move to blackout overnight illuminations of stores, buildings and offices as part of a cost- and energy-saving plan.