Like Google, Apple and Amazon previously, Facebook announced on Monday, August 24, a tax deal with the French government. This agreement involves a €106 million corporate tax adjustment for its subsidiary Facebook France over the period 2009-2018. For the year 2019, Facebook said it had
Several French supermarket chains have started to test the booking of time slots for checkout, to save time in the queue. Let’s have a look. We all have memories of more or less pleasant experiences at the supermarket checkout. Often, the queue is endless and
The gendarmes of the Vosges department (eastern France) have arrested six people following an investigation which lasted nearly a year. The suspects are being prosecuted for fraud and abuse of weakness. Their targets were elderly people to whom they promised miracle products at outrageous prices.
“Who should be vaccinated and how”? This is the question that the Covid-19 Vaccine Committee and the Scientific Committee of France have been debating since the race for an antiviral treatment began in July. While the preliminary research results are encouraging, experts in France are
The very mild weather last winter, the lack of human presence in the green spaces during the lockdown, and the high temperatures of the summer explain the current increase in the number of wasps. 2020 is the year of the coronavirus… but also of the
In an interview given to the magazine Paris Match, the President quotes a famous aviator to oppose the “zero risk doctrine” about Covid-19. If there is one message that the Head of State wanted to deliver through the interview he gave to Paris Match in
Launched in early June, the StopCovid France app has been downloaded 2.3 million times, according to the Health General Directorate (DGS) on Wednesday 19 August. However, only 72 alerts have been sent since then. The app has not been as successful as expected StopCovid is
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was invited by French President Emmanuel Macron to the summer residence of Fort de Brégançon, in the Var department (southeastern France) on Thursday, August 20. They openly showed the unity between the two countries. Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron stand together
Despite the resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, the Minister of National Education has swept aside any postponement of the start of the new school year, scheduled for Tuesday, September 1. The mask will be made compulsory for middle and high school students. With
To address the drought in France, the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, announced on Friday the opening of the compensation system for climatic “calamities” and tax relief. The French government will allow the opening of the “disaster” compensation scheme to farmers and stockbreeders who are