A Paris court this week ordered the partial release of Pierre Alessandri, who has served 24 years in jail for the 1998 assassination of Corsica’s top regional official Claude Erignac.

With the number of Covid-19 cases and hospitalised patients steadily going down in France, measures put in place for employees during the pandemic will no longer be in force as of 1 February. However, some of these changes have been criticised by grou…

Huge crowds marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age, signalling the opposition’s success in framing the pension debate as part of a broader battle against an econ…

Leading French unions on Tuesday night announced two separate days of action against Emmanuel Macron’s plans to revamp the country’s pensions system

Leading unions claimed nearly 700,000 people took to the streets of four French cities on Tuesday to protest against proposed changes to the French pensions system.

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has this week presented the government’s three-year plan to fight racism, anti-Semitism, and discrimination linked to origin. It aims in particular to make young people less vulnerable to hateful messages. 

The mayor of Lyon has canceled round table talks due to be held on Wednesday in the presence of the Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri. Grégory Doucet said he regretted not being able “to calmly guarantee freedom of expression” in a context marke…

France’s unions have called for another round of strikes and rallies on Tuesday to protest President Macron’s pension reform. While the government is adamant the minimum retirement age must rise from 62 to 64 in line with an ageing population, opponen…