A draft law, submitted on Thursday, September 10th before being examined by the Assembly from September 30th onwards, aims to lower the minimum voting age. Will it soon be possible to vote from the age of 16 in France? This is the wish of MPs
A 100 billion euros recovery plan in France, 30 of which are devoted to the ecological transition, compared with 130 in Germany, 35 of which are for the green transition. “Historical” is how Prime Minister Jean Castex described the French recovery plan presented by the
On September 4th, 2000, the CAC 40 was close to 7000 points. It has experienced several shocks from which it has still not recovered. Just 20 years ago the CAC 40 was close to 7,000 points. On September 4th, 2000, the leading index of the
In July, French people saved 16 billion euros, i.e. over 2.5 times the average amount of deposits collected each month for the past three years, according to the Bank of France. Introducing the recovery plan to prepare France for 2030 on Thursday, September 3rd, Prime
Making no noise, the trees are dying out in the forests of France. Global warming and successive droughts are to blame. French trees are suffering. And with them, they threaten our forests with extinction. “Three successive dry springs and summers, we’ve seen nothing like this,”
Hair salons’ turnover was even more affected than the hotel and restaurants sector in France. Customers have not yet returned to the hair salons, where a drop in traffic of up to 40% has been recorded. Worrying for the future of an entire profession, the
France moves up 4 places in the global innovation ranking, climbing to the 12th position, according to the GII international index. A significant improvement, according to the INSEAD business school. But France remains behind the United Kingdom (4th in the ranking) and Germany (9th). Thanks
Without taking part in the debate on the use of the word “ensauvagement” (turning savage), François Hollande calls for “national unity on certain major issues”. While Prime Minister Jean Castex tried to settle a controversy between his Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, and his Justice Minister,
According to the National Council of Shopping Centres (CNCC), the recovery is definitely underway in France’s shopping centres. Slowly but surely. Over the first seven months of 2020, the index calculated by the CNCC – based on the turnover generated – shows a performance amounting
In the latest edition of its Payment Data/Impact Covid19 survey, CDLK gives an update on French people’s spending sector by sector as of August 21st. And the results are far from being equal. Despite repeated calls from the government to consume, French spending seems to