Greece and France have sealed a $2.8 billion deal for the purchase of 18 Rafale fighter jets for the Greek air force. The deal is part of a larger weapons purchase program that Greece is carrying out as it sits down to negotiate a solution
France probably needs to move into a third lockdown, perhaps as early as the February school holidays, because of the circulation of new variants of the virus, the government’s top medical adviser on COVID-19 policy said on Sunday. French schoolchildren have two weeks off in
French President Emmanuel Macron and new US President Joe Biden are in agreement on climate change and how to fight coronavirus, the Elysee palace said on Sunday. The two leaders spoke for the first time since Biden’s inauguration in a telephone call Sunday and also
France will tighten its laws on incest, President Emmanuel Macron said in a series of tweets on Saturday, after publication of a book accusing a top French political commentator of abusing his stepson sparked outrage across the country. Macron said on his Twitter account that
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Iran is in the process of building up its nuclear weapons capacity and it is urgent that Tehran and Washington return to a 2015 nuclear agreement, France’s foreign minister was quoted as saying in an interview published on Saturday. Iran has been accelerating its breaches
The French government shot down an offer from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. to acquire hypermarket chain Carrefour SA, according to people familiar with the matter, saying the move threatened jobs and France’s food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Couche-Tard’s offer to buy Carrefour for 16.1 billion euros,
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a preliminary investigation for influence peddling in connection with a €3m (£2.7) contract he signed with a Russian insurance company. The rightwing politician reportedly received a first payment of €500,000 last year after being hired as a “special adviser”
During his appearance on the broadcast Le Grand Jury on Sunday, September 27th, the Health Minister, Olivier Véran, spoke again about working from home in businesses, reminding that this way is still “encouraged”. “When employers do not play the game, the government must take its
“We don’t want to completely stop the economic, social and cultural life of the French people,” said the Health Minister, Olivier Véran, during an interview with the show Le Grand Jury on Sunday, September 27th. Tightening restrictions rather than another lockdown Facing the increase in
The Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, declared on Sunday, September 27th, that France is “at war against Islamist terrorism”. “We must win this war” During his visit to the Boulogne-Billancourt synagogue on Sunday, Gérald Darmanin told a handful of journalists: “We are at war against Islamist