What is happening there and why it matters.
So it makes sense
France is the euro area’s second largest economy after Germany and the Union’s only nuclear power — it generates most of its electricity from nuclear plants, which gives it a different position in European energy debates. It is also a country where politics happens in the streets as much as in parliament: protest, strike and blockade are a normal continuation of a dispute there, not a breakdown of it. The summer of 2026 showed what troubles the country most — heatwaves with more than 2,000 excess deaths, wildfires and a drought that forced the state to send farmers hundreds of millions of euros and temporarily relax the rules for protected-origin cheeses.
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Curfews were extended after a quiet night, the first suspect in the Limoges town hall arson was detained, and 123 people are in custody. What foreign media are writing and what the governmen…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday evening in a televised address condemned the violence and looting that erupted during Saturday's protests in...
French police detained more than 1,800 people over violence during Saturday's demonstrations. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said more than...
Hundreds of thousands of people took part in protests across France on Saturday against the high cost of living. In some places, rallies escalated...
Approximately 550,000 people took part in protests against the high cost of living and the state of education in France on Saturday. Gatherings were held in...
France and Germany are moving closer, after months of talks, to a deal on easing the ban on new combustion-engine car sales after 2035. The compromi...
Hackers heated up freezers in hundreds of French supermarkets, Albert Heijn has no fresh food. The Dutch NCSC, however, does not link the two incidents.
French high school and university students renewed school blockades on Tuesday ahead of another nationwide day of demonstrations in Paris and other...
French navy on Monday seized the tanker DF Peak, suspected of operating in Russia's shadow fleet. The vessel was, according to French authorities...
The movement sparked by the teachers' strike in Créteil continues. Around 6,000 have been arrested; a petition against "maiming weapons" has 100,000 signatures.
MEP Raphaël Glucksmann won Sunday's primaries of the French social-democratic left and became its candidate in the 2027 presidential election...
The popularity of French President Emmanuel Macron has fallen to its lowest level since he took office in 2017. This comes from a survey published on...
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Markets currently view French public debt as riskier than the bonds of nearly two-fifths of French companies. Investors therefore demand...
Since 17 September, French students have been blocking hundreds of schools; since 1 October, the protests have also spread to Liège. What they are demanding, why the…
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France suspended police use of stun grenades at student protests. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced this on Wednesday after a 1...
