France debt set for highest level since 1978 as fiscal strain grows
France is facing mounting pressure to rein in its public finances as it prepares a €54 billion package of spending cuts for next year.
France is facing mounting pressure to rein in its public finances as it prepares a €54 billion package of spending cuts for next year.
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The shortage of housing for rent is so severe that even white-collar professionals are struggling to find apartments. Real estate professionals blame higher interest rates, energy efficiency requirements and the end of a tax incentive scheme for landlords....
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Paris's Musée du Luxembourg has brought together around 200 works – drawings, lithographs, photographs and films – that shed light on how the New York-based artist worked....
government
Hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has successfully brought the public debt issue into the presidential election campaign by proposing to cancel part of it. The proposal is legally fragile and does not address France's persistent budget deficit, writes Le Monde columnist Stép...
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For his final show as a rider, the artist, also at the helm of an equestrian academy he founded in the Château de Versailles's royal stables, opened the doors of his own venue in the Paris suburbs....
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Macron welcomed Canadian PM Mark Carney to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon for talks aimed at deepening economic and security ties, as Canada seeks closer relations with France and Europe amid tensions with the US....
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During a joint news conference with Canadian leader Mark Carney on the French Atlantic territory, the French president said the two countries would work together for closer ties on fishing, security and energy....
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The Iranian judiciary accused the center of conducting 'illegal acts that violated diplomatic conventions,' amid strained relations between Tehran and Paris....
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Zohran Mamdani and Emmanuel Grégoire, the socialist mayors of New York and Paris, met in New York, using the opportunity to discuss shared interests in housing and environmental policy....
schools
Giorgia Meloni on Sunday announced plans to ban full veils in Italian schools and curb the enrollment of foreign students who do not speak Italian, echoing rules in other EU states. Here's a comparison of other EU countries' rules on this topic....
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday welcomed Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney to France's tiny North Atlantic territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just off the Canadian coast....
business
A profile of Jean-Luc Lagardère's son, heir to one of France's most powerful business empires, was the cover story for the first issue of Le Monde's magazine, in September 2011. Fifteen years later, the family business is now in the hands of another billionaire....
safety
In July, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale approved the bill, which says that any law enforcement official who uses force is assumed to have acted legally in using their weapon. It now faces a vote in the Sénat....
