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France is to scrap its television licence fee after the Senate approved Emmanuel Macron’s election promise to cut the public broadcasting tax in order to boost households’ spending power. But during a heated Senate de...
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Air-conditioned shops throughout France will have to keep their doors shut or risk a fine of €750 (£635), a French minister has announced, after the mayors of several major cities unveiled a similar rule during the co...
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Vast swathes of blackened pine forest in south-west France are to be replanted and homes and businesses rebuilt “according to different rules” dictated by the climate crisis, Emmanuel Macron has said, as he called for...
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The French government is poised to pay nearly €10bn (£8.5bn) to fully nationalise EDF as ministers attempt to tackle the European energy crisis. The French finance ministry said on Tuesday it had offered €9.7bn or €12...
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France was bracing on Monday for the peak of the heatwave gripping the country, with crushing temperatures expected from the Mediterranean, as wildfires continued to rage across Europe. Forecasters have put 15 depart...
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Emmanuel Macron has said he was proud of supporting the US cab-hailing company Uber and would “do it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow”, after revelations of his efforts to help the firm lobby against France’s...
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Nearly 1,000 firefighters backed by water-dropping planes have been deployed to battle a massive blaze in France’s southern Gard region that burned 600 hectares (1,500 acres) overnight. “This fire is far from being do...
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Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled his government for the second time in six weeks after losing his parliamentary majority in elections in June. The shake-up brought the former health minister Olivier Véran, who nursed Fr...
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