Tag: France

• Tuesday, November 17th 2015 - 07:35 UTC

  UEFA confirms the Euro 2016 will remain in France

  

  Euro 2016 will remain in France, UEFA has announced. The country’s hosting of the tournament has come under scrutiny since Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people with many more seriously injured. France’s 1958 World Cup star Just Fontaine was one prominent figure to call on the country to give up hosting rights, claiming: “It is simply too dangerous”.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Flags at half-mast on Whitehall as UK observes a minute's silence on Monday

  

  Flags fly at half-mast on Whitehall government buildings as the United Kingdom observed a minute's silence on Monday 16 November 2015. The minute's silence was held across Europe at 11am (UK time), in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France.

• Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 09:28 UTC

  Night of gun and bombs attacks in Paris: at least 150 people killed

  

  France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 150 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The siege ended when security forces stormed the building.

• Friday, October 30th 2015 - 05:52 UTC

  Uruguayan president helps revive young passenger in a flight to Paris

  

  Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez put his old profession as physician to use helping revive a young French allergic woman on a flight to Paris, according to a report on the Montevideo weekly Busqueda. The incident occurred last Monday.

• Wednesday, September 30th 2015 - 09:21 UTC

  French Mistral helicopter carriers, originally for Russia, sold to Egypt

  

  France has agreed to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt for 950 million Euros after their sale to Russia was canceled in August, French officials said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, July 23rd 2015 - 08:18 UTC

  Protesting French farmers promised €600m of emergency government help

  

  Dramatic protests across the north of France have won the country’s farmers €600m of emergency government help. This week thousands of tractors blockaded motorways and brought cities to a standstill, as the plight of producers dominated the nation’s news.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  French president to announce emergency measures in support of farmers

  

  President Francois Hollande has said he would unveil emergency measures to help France’s livestock and dairy farmers on Wednesday. Tuesday’s announcement came as as livestock farmers caused chaos in the north west of France, using tractors and trucks full of manure and rubble to block roads.

• Monday, July 20th 2015 - 08:06 UTC

  France calls for an 'Euro government” led by a 'vanguard of countries'

  

  France favors a “stronger organization” behind the Euro led by “a vanguard of countries”, French President Francois Hollande said in an interview published Sunday. In the past week “the European spirit prevailed” in addressing the Greek crisis, he told the weekly Journal du Dimanche.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2015 - 07:21 UTC

  Merkel and Hollande tell Greece the door for serious proposals remains open

  

  France and Germany told Greece to come up with serious proposals in order to restart financial aid talks, raising pressure on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to compromise a day after his country voted overwhelmingly against more austerity

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 04:27 UTC

  Henry's handball blessed Ireland with US$ 5m and France a place in South Africa 2010

  

  The latest revelations of allegations of irregular payments by FIFA have brought Ireland, South Africa and Venezuela under the spotlight. In effect a FIFA official has admitted Ireland received 5 million dollars in compensation for missing out on a place at the 2010 World Cup after a handball by player Thierry Henry gave France victory and a place in South Africa.