PARIS – The Gironde department around Bordeaux banned outdoor public events and those at indoor venues without air conditioning, a local official told public radio on Friday, as France is …
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PARIS – France’s finance minister said on Sunday he expected positive growth for 2022, but would revise economic forecasts at the start of July. “It’s clear that with the war …
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PARIS – France is in talks with the United Arab Emirates to replace Russian oil purchases, which will stop after the imposition of a European Union ban on Russian crude, …
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PARIS – A global digital tax deal might not be ready until the end 2023 or early 2024, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday, flagging a big …
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By LA BRUSSELS – The 27 members of the European Union should reach a unanimous agreement on the implementation of a global minimum corporate tax by June 17, French Finance …
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PARIS – France’s economy will escape from stagnation in the current quarter and eke out meagre growth, although inflation will continue to weigh on consumers, the INSEE official statistics agency …
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By Tom Polansek and Sybille de La Hamaide CHICAGO/PARIS – Organic and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown. Egg-laying hens that normally have access to the outdoors can no …
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FRANKFURT – One in three managers at the European Central Bank is German, giving the ECB’s host country an ever bigger representation than its size would imply, ECB data showed …
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PARIS – France will give food companies up to six months to change product labels to reflect recipe changes if they replace sunflower oil, supplies of which have been strained …
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By Michel Rose PARIS – The French will decide on Sunday whether to re-elect pro-business centrist President Emmanuel Macron or blow up decades of mainstream consensus in favour of far-right …
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By Layli Foroudi and Elizabeth Pineau AUXERRE, France -French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen made final appeals on Friday to undecided voters weighing fears of what …
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DAKAR – Air France said on Wednesday that flights from Senegal’s capital Dakar to Paris will make refuelling stops in Spain’s Las Palmas, due a refined products shortage in the …
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By Michel Rose PARIS – The French will decide on April 24 whether to re-elect pro-business centrist President Emmanuel Macron or blow up decades of mainstream consensus in favour of …
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PARIS – The French government presented on Wednesday a new round of measures to help households, companies, farmers and fishermen cope with the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. …
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PARIS – EU governments need to keep their fiscal stances “reactive” in the face of the current Ukraine crisis with targetted measures for households and firms, French Finance Minister Bruno …
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PARIS – France, Britain and Germany warned Russia on Saturday that its demands to have its trade guaranteed with Iran risked the collapse of an almost-completed nuclear deal. Negotiators have …
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The French government seized a massive yacht belonging to Russian oligarch Igor Sechin, the head of a state-run energy giant, France’s finance ministry said. French customs authorities executed the seizure …
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By Rory Carroll – Ukrainian tennis star Dayana Yastremska has fled her native country amid a Russian invasion and is now safe in France, the 21-year-old said in a social …
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– Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had supported cutting off Russia from the global SWIFT payment system in a phone conversation …
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PARIS – France’s competition watchdog fined EDF and its subsidiaries 300 million euros ($339.78 million) over the abuse of its dominant position between 2004 and 2021, the competition authority said …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United States, Britain and France have asked the U.N. Security Council to meet later on Monday on Ukraine after Russia recognized two breakaway regions in eastern …
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BRUSSELS – The U.S.-European Union Trade and Technology Council, set up last year to mend strained transatlantic trade relations and help the allied democracies better compete with China, will meet …
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BERLIN -The German government stands by the goal of implementing a global corporate tax reform drafted last year as scheduled on Jan. 1, 2023, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said during …
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PARIS – The next French government will need to revise current budget deficit reduction plans after a presidential election in April to ensure France does not fall further behind other …
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By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS – France is grouping the country’s top cybersecurity experts in Paris’ business district of La Defense, bringing together startups and household names to tackle the scourge …