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On the slopes of one of France's swankiest ski resorts, a bureaucratic battle is raging between local authorities and British ski instructors that goes to the heart of Europe's labour laws. The latest shot was fired on February 18, at the height of… Read more →
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After having slipped during two years, prices of second-hand dwellings seemed to level off in the fourth quarter 2013 according to provisional results (+0.3%, s.a. data, of which +0.6% for houses and -0.2% for flats). Year-on-year, prices decreased : -1.4%, including -1.4% for flats as for houses. via www.insee.fr Read more →
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Construction and telecom group Bouygues reported on Wednesday a big loss for 2013 after a writedown for shares in Alstom, but its mobile-phone division switched back into profit. The net loss was 757 million euros ($1.04 billion), but investors focused… Read more →
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Normally relegated to the bottom of the artistic heap, paparazzi are getting their own French art exhibition, just weeks after one of them exposed the president's secret affair. By turns populist and subversive, the controversial exhibition at the Centre… Read more →
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The French parliament on Monday definitively passed a law slapping tough penalties on firms who shut down without looking for a buyer in three months' time. The so-called "Florange law" is named after a steelworks in northern France where Socialist… Read more →
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A French organic winemaker could face a prison sentence and a hefty fine after refusing to spray his vines with pesticide. Emmanuel Giboulot will appear before a judge in the city of Dijon on Monday after defying an official order to treat his vineyard against an insect suspected of transmitting... Read more →
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Police chief Camille Verhoeven is diminutive, pugnacious and brilliant. The shambolic Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg prefers intuition over logic. Victor Legris juggles bookselling with solving grim 19th century murders. After the international success of… Read more →
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Five years after it closed for a two-year renovation, Paris's Picasso museum -- which houses one of the world's most extensive collections of the Spanish master's work -- is to reopen its doors. The final bill for the refurbishment of the 17th-century… Read more →
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WITH just weeks to go before the European Parliamentary elections on Thursday 22 May, the Electoral Commission has launched an international campaign to encourage British citizens living overseas to register to vote. Read more →
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PSA Peugeot Citroen agreed to a capital tie-up with China's Dongfeng and the French state on Tuesday, a source said, ending the reign of one of France's oldest industrial dynasties. In the latest buy-in of a Chinese giant to a struggling Western firm… Read more →
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