Strasbourg, France, Jan 14 (AFP/APP): Going green can be a costly business, as the EU's executive body will make clear on Tuesday when it launches a one-trillion-euro plan to finance
Paris, Jan 10 (AFP/APP): Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to streets across France on Thursday in the latest mass protests against a pensions overhaul that critics say could cut
Paris, Jan 9 (AFP/APP): French architects want the roof of the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral to be rebuilt in wood and not in metal or concrete. One of the heads of
Paris, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): The boss of a hardline French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a strike that has crippled transport in Paris for the past
Paris, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): A wave of sub-Saharan African countries became independent in the 1960s, 17 achieving self-rule from colonial Belgium, Britain and France in 1960 alone. Portugal's colonies would
Bordeaux, Dec 16 (AFP/APP): Fierce storms in southwest France have claimed a third victim, authorities said Sunday, after a man in his forties was found dead in his submerged car
Peyrehorade, France, Dec 15 (AFP/APP): Two pensioners have been killed and tens of thousands of homes left without electricity as gale force winds and flooding hit southwestern France. Eleven departments
Paris, Dec 11 (AFP/APP): France's prime minister on Wednesday refused to back down on his government's controversial pension reform plans in the face of a crippling week-old transport freeze. Edouard
Paris, Dec 8 (AFP/APP) :French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and senior cabinet ministers met late Sunday to discuss the government's proposed pensions reforms as public transport in
Paris, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): French President Emmanuel Macron will on Sunday meet ministers involved in his radical pension reform which has prompted a nationwide strike and brought key transport services