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The measure was overwhelmingly approved by French lawmakers earlier this week, and Friday´s ceremony means it can now enter into force.

Emmanuel Macron demanded that Europe not be “cowardly” while claiming his suggestion of sending troops to Ukraine was merely to “open debate”.

France is the first country in the world to have enshrined a “guaranteed” right to abortion in its constitution.

The French Bishops’ Conference (CEF) called for prayer and fasting Monday in opposition to efforts by the government of President Emmanuel Macron to enshrine abortion rights in the French Constitution.

French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

The Chinese Communist Party announced on Wednesday that it would send its top diplomat on Russia, “Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui,” on a tour of Russia, Ukraine, and relevant European actors to discuss Moscow’s ongoing invasion.

Macron is first NATO leader to discuss deploying soldiers to Ukraine, but despite blowback he insists his position is “measured”.

Talk of sending troops has suddenly broken into the open for first time, prompting Russia to warn of invevitable “direct military conflict”.

France has chewed over the issue of vegetarian food makers claiming carnivore terms to describe their plant-based wares and banned the use of the term “steak” on anything but the animal product.

Striking employees demanded better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes.

The Eiffel Tower, which had been closed for five days by a strike, will reopen Sunday after a deal had been struck with unions.

French President Emmanuel Macron was surrounded by groups of farmers who chastised him for prioritising Ukraine over his own people.

France used new law to deport a radical Imam in just 12 hours, but he insists he’s the victim of a misunderstanding and vows to return.

The French centre-right Les Républicains declared they will not back European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for a second term.

Russian forces threatened to shoot down Fflights patrolling last month in international airspace over the Black Sea, France said.

The former head of the EU’s border enforcement agency will run for the EU Parliament for the French anti-mass migration National Rally party.

Maker seeks $538 million savingsas it foresees difficult conditions ahead with the transition to EVs and competition from China. 

A massive fire broke out at a French industrial site used for recycling hybrid and electric car batteries on Saturday.

French police shot and killed a Sudanese national who had attempted to attack passengers on a Paris tram with a butcher knife.

At least half of Emmanuel Macron’s ministers are reportedly millionaires while a quarter are in the top one per cent of French society.

Ukraine is signing bilateral defence deals with France and Germany on Friday, cited as creating a “NATO light” by the press. 

French populist parties are on pace to see record support in the EU Parliament elections and deal a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron.

A man was arrested by French police Monday after he attacked a Jewish man from behind in the French capital and stabbed the victim six times.

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) reported on Monday that some 10,000 children remain under the control of militant groups, who use them as soldiers, spies, servants, and sex slaves.

Marine Le Pen leads the polls for the next French presidential election and is now in a position to win the second round of voting.

France is paying tribute to French victims of Hamas´ Oct. 7 attack, in a national ceremony led by President Emmanuel Macron.

French authorities claimed the mass stabbing in Paris was not terrorism despite the suspect saying he wanted to “attack French people”.

President Joe Biden on Sunday appeared to confuse French President Emmanuel Macron with his late predecessor Francois Mitterrand who died in 1996.

Parisians voted to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park from fall.

The African national suspected of tha mass stabbing at a Paris train station published anti-French videos before the attack.

A Malian national has been detained after three people were injured Saturday in a knife attack at Paris’s Gare de Lyon railway station.

Snow-dusted tractors marked by vivid national flags have become markers of a farmer protest movement across Europe.

The farmer revolution against the green agenda landed on the doorstep of the EU, with thousands of farmers descending on Brussels.

French farmers are threatening to impose a blockade on Brussels as they have done to Paris in opposition to the green agenda.

French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to Sweden on Tuesday for a two-day state visit while farmer protests continue at home.

The military juntas ruling the nations of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso issued a joint statement on Sunday announcing their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).