France a step closer to adding abortion rights to constitution
The French Senate has voted to include the right to abortion in the constitution, allowing the process to continue, though the path to a constitutional amendment is long.
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Thales secures contract for GM200 radars for Ukraine
Thales Group, one of the largest defense contractors in Europe, has announced that it had got an order for delivering a complete short-range air defense system, including a Ground Master 200 radar to Ukraine. “On Wednesday, 1 February 2023, Frenc…
French pension reform bill heads to parliamentary debate with thousands of amendments
A French parliamentary commission ended its examination of the government’s contested pension reform bill Wednesday evening without having reached the end of the text because of thousands of proposed amendments. The original text is to be debated in t…
French court orders partial release of Corsican nationalist convicted of murder
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.
France to send more mobile artillery to Ukraine
DefenceTalkFrance will ship 12 more Caesar truck-mounted howitzers and fresh air defence equipment to Ukraine to bolster the fight against Russian invaders, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Tuesday. The artillery pieces, adding to 18 already del…
France to modify special Covid work rules as health situation improves
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…
‘Not just about pensions’: French protesters see threat to social justice in Macron’s reform
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…
French unions call for two more days of action in fight against pension reforms
Leading French unions on Tuesday night announced two separate days of action against Emmanuel Macron’s plans to revamp the country’s pensions system
Unions claim thousands more on the streets to oppose Macron’s pension reforms
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 government’s anti-discrimination plan will prevent ‘history stuttering’
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.