Tag: France

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  How we recruited albatrosses to patrol the high seas for illegal fishers

  

  By Samantha Patrick (*) – Wandering albatrosses have long been considered exceptional creatures. They can fly 8.5 million kilometers during their lifetimes – the equivalent of flying to the Moon and back more than ten times. Their three-and-a-half-meter wing span is the same length as a small car and they can weigh as much as 24 puffins. Their body shape means they can effortlessly glide over the ocean waves, flying in some of the strongest winds on Earth. Now research led by the Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé in France has found that these seabirds may have promising careers in the fight against overfishing.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  “We must stand up for Europe, otherwise at some point we won’t have it any more”

  

  Britain’s departure from the European Union shows the bloc must deliver for its citizens and its leaders must stand up for the project or else risk it failing, the head of the European Union’s executive, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Friday.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:23 UTC

  Brexit is a “historic warning sign”, the reaction from Paris on EU reforms

  

  Brexit is a “historic warning sign” for the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron said hours before Britain's departure from the EU, adding that it meant “we need more Europe”.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:06 UTC

  Drastic changes to the poultry industry production in France

  

  France is to ban from the end of 2021 the hugely controversial but widespread poultry industry practice of systematically slaughtering male chicks, Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume said on Tuesday.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Macron melee with Israeli security during a visit to the St Anne Jerusalem Basilica

  

  “Go outside,” French President Emmanuel Macron demanded in English in a melee with Israeli security men on Wednesday, demanding they leave a Jerusalem basilica that he visited before a Holocaust memorial conference.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  French transport strike enters fourth week with unions pledging to press on

  

  The head of a hard-line French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a crippling strike that has cast a shadow over Christmas celebrations, with the stoppages entering a fourth week and becoming the longest-lasting such action since the 1980s.

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Boat people with 71 illegal immigrants intercepted in the English Channel

  

  Seventy-one migrants were intercepted on several boats in the English Channel overnight, with some needing hospitalization for hypothermia, French and British authorities said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  First time since the French Revolution with no Christmas mass at Notre Dame cathedral

  

  For the first time in more than 200 years, worshippers will not be able to attend Christmas mass at Notre-Dame cathedral, still being restored after a devastating fire.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  French fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro has died in Paris aged 86

  

  Ungaro was the son of Italian immigrants who trained under Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga. He founded his fashion house in the 1960s and described himself as a “sensual obsessive” - with a reputation for bold colors and prints.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 07:39 UTC

  Bloomberg fined 5 million Euros in France for a report based on a fake news release

  

  France's financial markets watchdog on Monday hit Bloomberg with a five million euro (US$5.6 million) fine for a report based on a fake news release that triggered a plunge in the shares of French construction giant Vinci and wiped billions off its market value.