Tag: France

• 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.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  Top French economist refused to accept the Legion d'Honneur

  

  France's influential economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller “Capital in the 21st Century”, refused to accept the country's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur, arguing it is not the government's job to decide who is honorable and criticizing policies of the current Socialist administration.

• Wednesday, November 26th 2014 - 10:10 UTC

  France suspends delivery of helicopter carriers to Russia because of Ukraine

  

  France suspended indefinitely on Tuesday delivery of the first of two Mistral helicopter carrier warships to Russia, citing conflict in eastern Ukraine where the West accuses Moscow of fomenting separatism.

• Friday, October 24th 2014 - 20:17 UTC

  France reports four cases of chikungunya locally acquired infections

  

  On 21 October 2014, WHO was notified by the National IHR Focal Point for France of 4 cases of chikungunya locally-acquired infection in Montpellier, France. The cases were confirmed by tests conducted by the French National Reference Laboratory for arboviruses on 20 October 2014. This is the first time that locally-acquired transmission of chikungunya has been detected in France since 2010.

• Monday, September 29th 2014 - 08:33 UTC

  French far-right won its first ever seats in the country's Senate

  

  The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant legislative body in France, but Sunday's ballot underlined the unpopularity of the president and the continued rise of the anti-immigration, anti-Euro National Front.

• Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 - 05:43 UTC

  Merkel praises France on reforms, but deferred to Brussels the controversial budget deficit issue

  

  Germany's Angela Merkel said on Monday after meeting French premier Manuel Valls that she was impressed by the number of reforms Paris had launched, but deferred to Brussels on the halting French efforts to reduce its public deficit.

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 08:36 UTC

  Dragui and Hollande agree to spur demand and head off the risk of deflation

  

  French President Francois Hollande and Mario Draghi the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) have agreed that European demand must be lifted to head off a risk of deflation, French officials said.

• Wednesday, August 27th 2014 - 21:03 UTC

  Socialist Hollande converts into orthodoxy: names former Rothschild banker in Economy

  

  French president Francois Hollande has replaced his maverick leftist economy minister with a former Rothschild partner in a reshuffle intended to reconcile his efforts to revive the stagnant French economy with deficit-cutting orthodoxy.

• Tuesday, August 26th 2014 - 01:47 UTC

  French government and opposition in disarray; Euro austerity biting

  

  French President Francois Hollande asked his prime minister on Sunday to form a new government, looking to impose his will on the cabinet after rebel leftist ministers had called for an economic policy U-turn. The surprise move came the day after outspoken Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg had condemned what he called fiscal “austerity” and attacked Euro zone powerhouse Germany's “obsession” with budgetary rigor.