Tag: France

• Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

  

  The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

  Germany and Spain mourn the loss 150 people in air crash in the French Alps

  

  Hundreds turned out in the western German town of Haltern am See to mourn 16 students and two teachers lost in Tuesday’s Germanwings crash in the French Alps. The Airbus A320 crashed en route to Dusseldorf from Barcelona, likely killing all 150 on board, in what would be the worst air accident on French soil in three decades. Spain declared three days of national mourning.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2015 - 08:20 UTC

  EU main economies announce plans to join China-led development bank, despite US warning

  

  France, Germany and Italy on Tuesday announced plans to join the Chinese-led development bank AIIB, drawing concern in Washington which views the institution with skepticism. The three European countries want ”to become founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)”, they said in a statement.

• Friday, February 20th 2015 - 05:00 UTC

  Negative inflation in France adds to Euro-zone stagnation and deflation fears

  

  Inflation in France, the Euro zone's second-biggest economy, was negative in January for the first time in more than five years, the national statistics agency said on Thursday.Prices declined by 0.4% in January compared to the same month last year, INSEE said, noting that France has not seen negative inflation since October 2009.

• Tuesday, February 17th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  France ends HSBC Swiss private bank investigation; trials set to begin

  

  French investigation into HSBC's Swiss private bank over a suspected tax-dodging scheme for wealthy customers has ended, bringing it a step closer to a possible trial, a judicial source said.

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 06:24 UTC

  Hollande admits Muslims are “the first victims of fanaticism, fundamentalism and intolerance”.

  

  President Francois Hollande assured Muslims in France and abroad that his country respected them and their religion but would not compromise its commitment to freedom and democracy.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 04:05 UTC

  Charlie Hebdo Wednesday edition expects sales to reach 3 million copies

  

  Up to 3 million copies of Charlie Hebdo could hit newsstands this week, dwarfing its usual print run of 60,000, in response to soaring demand for the first edition of the satirical weekly since last week's deadly attacks by Islamist militants.

• Monday, January 12th 2015 - 09:22 UTC

  “Paris is the capital of the world” said President Hollande next to 44 foreign leaders

  

  Dozens of world leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen liked arms leading hundreds of thousands of French citizens in an unprecedented march under high security to pay tribute to victims of Islamist militant attacks.

• Saturday, January 10th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  European leaders will march on Sunday in Paris against terrorism

  

  Several European head of states will join a manifestation in Paris on Sunday, to express their solidarity following the recent attacks. France’s President Francois Hollande will be accompanied by an important number of leaders, including Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UK David Cameron and Italy’s Matteo Renzi among others.

• Thursday, January 8th 2015 - 05:21 UTC

  Fears in Europe of violent retaliation and Islamophobia following Paris killings

  

  The terror attack that killed 12 people in Paris on Wednesday will have come as little surprise to Europe's police and intelligence services. For months, they've regarded the prospect of a mass killing in Europe by isolated gunmen or small groups of Islamist terrorists as a question of when rather than if.