French retailer Casino selling down stake in Brazil’s Assai
PARIS (Reuters) -Casino on Tuesday launched a sale of shares in Brazilian supermarket chain Assai as the French supermarket operator presses on with cutting its …
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French union leader vows to keep fighting Macron’s pension plan
PARIS (Reuters) – French unions will keep on fighting against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan despite the upper house of parliament approving the text …
TotalEnergies: Strike continues for sixth day at company’s French sites
PARIS (Reuters) – TotalEnergies said on Sunday the rolling strike over the government’s planned pension reform continued for the sixth day running at its French …
Macron backs enshrining right to abortion in French constitution
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he backed including the right to abortion in the constitution, a move he said would …
French union urges Airbus to reopen salary pact due to inflation
PARIS (Reuters) – One of France’s largest unions, Force Ouvriere, has called on planemaker Airbus to renegotiate part of an existing salary accord to take …
Casino to step up promotions as cost of living crisis weighs on French sales
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -French retailer Casino vowed on Tuesday to spend more on promotions this quarter to help cash-strapped shoppers after sales at …
French consumer confidence fell slightly in February from January -INSEE
PARIS (Reuters) – French consumer confidence fell back slightly in February compared to January, said the INSEE statistics body on Friday, which also revised up …
French economy moves back into growth territory in February -flash PMI
By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – French economic activity grew in February for the first time since October, helped by a slight easing in inflationary …
French Finance Minister to meet retailers this week over food inflation worries
By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday he will meet retailers this week to find ways to …
Top court sides with French taxman against LVMH on legality of 2019 raids
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s tax investigators on Wednesday won a case against luxury giant LVMH when the country’s highest court ruled that an earlier decision …
New French envoy seeks release of citizens in talks with Iran’s Raisi
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s new envoy to Iran told President Ebrahim Raisi that Tehran had to immediately release seven French nationals detained in the country, …
Strikes against pension reforms to disrupt French rail and air traffic on Tuesday
PARIS (Reuters) – French train and air services are expected to be heavily disrupted on Tuesday by a nationwide strike against pension reforms, the national …
French, German ministers to tell U.S. don’t poach EU investments -sources
PARIS (Reuters) – France and Germany’s economy ministers will tell senior U.S. officials not to try to actively poach green investments from Europe when they …
French police apprehends suspect in Finnish therapy data hacking
HELSINKI (Reuters) – French police apprehended on Friday a 25-year-old Finnish man suspected of breaching patient records of some 33,000 psychotherapy clients in Finland, the …
Man detained on French high-speed TGV after attack threat
By Marine Strauss and Alain Acco BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A man was arrested after threatening to commit an attack while travelling on a high-speed TGV …
TotalEnergies raises by 15% bonus budget for some key French staff
PARIS (Reuters) – French oil giant TotalEnergies said on Thursday that it would raise by 15% the budget allocated to bonuses for some of its …
Cost of living crisis tests striking French workers
By Layli Foroudi and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – French railway worker Franck Viger-Brunet says he and his comrades have to count carefully the costs …
French Jan factory activity rebound not as strong as forecast -PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s manufacturing activity rebound in January was not quite as strong as first forecast, a survey showed on Wednesday, as new orders …
French inflation rises to 7.0% in January on energy prices
PARIS (Reuters) – French inflation rose in January on higher energy prices after the government phased out some measures that had reined in increases, according …
Top French university bans use of ChatGPT to prevent plagiarism
PARIS (Reuters) – Sciences Po, one of France’s top universities, has banned the use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can generate coherent prose, …
Two French women sentenced in Nicaragua to eight years in jail -rights group
MANAGUA (Reuters) – A judge in Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, on Thursday sentenced two French citizens to eight years in jail, according to a human rights …
Pickup in French manufacturing offers hope as services sector still weak -flash PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – Output in the French economy fell slightly overall again in January, a purchasing managers’ survey showed on Tuesday, but manufacturing activity improved …
French advertising firm Publicis names WPP’s Ikiler as EMEA COO
(Reuters) – Publicis has appointed WPP’s Demet Ikiler as its chief operating officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the French advertising agency said …
French court orders Uber to pay some $18 million to drivers, company to appeal
By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – French court on Friday ordered Uber to pay around 17 million euros ($18.43 million) in damages and lost salaries …
Strike cuts French power supply, halts refinery shipments
By Forrest Crellin, Benjamin Mallet and America Hernandez PARIS (Reuters) -A nationwide strike against pension reform in France led to a substantial fall in electricity …
French Uber drivers to earn more than $8 per ride after union deal
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Uber drivers are poised to earn a minimum of 7.65 euros net ($8.25) per ride after a sector-wide …
French court dismisses complicity in war crimes charge against TotalEnergies – lawyers
PARIS (Reuters) – A French court has dismissed charges of complicity in war crimes against oil major TotalEnergies, lawyers for the NGOs who brought the …
French unions gear up for fight against delayed retirement
By Noemie Olive and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – French unions and opposition parties on Wednesday said they would fight hard to try to derail …
French drug company Servier launches Mediator appeal
PARIS (Reuters) – French drugmaker Servier on Monday launched its appeal against manslaughter and deception convictions handed down by a Paris court in 2021 in …
French privacy watchdog fines Apple over personalised ads
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s privacy watchdog CNIL on Wednesday said it had imposed an 8 million euro ($8.49 million) fine linked to ad personalisation in …
Stellantis plans to cut one in five French outlets in dealership revamp
By Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) – Stellantis will ultimately cut about one in five retail outlets in France, the automaker said on Wednesday, as it …
French service sector activity subdued in Dec -final PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – Activity in France’s dominant services sector remained subdued last month, a survey showed on Wednesday, as inflation continued to weigh on demand, …
French manufacturing contraction not as deep as forecast in Dec – final PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s manufacturing sector contracted less than first thought in December, a survey showed on Monday, even though inflationary pressures continued to weigh …
French inflation will be high in coming months before easing in mid-2023 -Le Maire
PARIS (Reuters) – France will have high inflation levels in the next few months, particularly regarding food items, before it will then likely ease in …
There should not be any ‘crash’ in French and European economy – ECB’s Villeroy
PARIS (Reuters) – The French and broader European economy should not suffer any “crash” or “hard landing”, European Central Bank (ECB) member and Bank of …
French economic contraction worsened in December – flash PMI
By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) – French business activity contracted at a faster rate in December than the previous month, a survey showed on Friday, …
French economy forecast to contract before recovering next year
PARIS (Reuters) – The French economy is set to contract slightly this quarter due to refinery strikes and nuclear reactor outages before activity recovers in …
French court sentences eight over 2016 truck rampage in Nice
By Caroline Pailliez PARIS (Reuters) – A French court on Tuesday convicted seven men and one woman for their roles in a 2016 truck rampage …
French nuclear watchdog to notify decision on EDF Penly 2 repair plans next week – spokesman
PENLY (France) (Reuters) – French nuclear safety watchdog ASN is expected to communicate its decision on EDF’s repair plans to fix stress corrosion problems at …
Cuba and French telecoms operator Orange begin work on subsea cable to Martinique
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said on Thursday it had begun work with French telecoms operator Orange on an underwater cable that will link it to …
French central bank sees fourth quarter growth of 0.1%
PARIS (Reuters) – The French economy is on course to finish the year with slightly positive growth in the fourth quarter, the central bank said …
French farmer wins $11,700 in Bayer pesticide fumes case
By Tassilo Hummel and Gus Trompiz PARIS (Reuters) -Germany’s Bayer has been ordered to pay compensation of 11,135 euros ($11,700) to a French farmer who …
French watchdog orders Amazon to pay $3.5 million in penalties
PARIS (Reuters) – A French watchdog has ordered U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com to pay 3.3 million euros ($3.5 million) in penalties for failing to modify …
French prosecutors name Ukrainian suspect in Lebanese central bank probe
(This story has been refiled to fix a typo in paragraph 11.) By David Gauthier-Villars (Reuters) – French prosecutors said on Monday they have put …
French minister hails U.S. talks as ‘turning point’ to avert trade war
By Michel Rose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s discussions with U.S. President Joe Biden have resulted in a “major breakthrough” to avert a …
Antitrust authority rejects Canal’s claim in Amazon French soccer rights row
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s antitrust authority said on Wednesday it has rejected a claim by pay TV channel Canal Plus and beIN Sports that the …
French consumer spending falls in October, inflation unchanged in November
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s economy eked out meagre growth in the third quarter of 2022 while household spending fell more than expected in October and …
Airbus says reached settlement with French prosecutor on Libya, Kazakhstan bribery probe
PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus has reached a settlement with the French financial prosecutor (PNF) concerning judicial investigations related to Libya and Kazakhstan, an Airbus spokesperson …
Stellantis stores cars in old French airfield amid delivery logjam – sources
By Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) – Stellantis is using an abandoned airfield in eastern France to store cars that are ready for delivery but cannot …
French economy contracted in November – flash PMI
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s private sector economy contracted in November for the first time since February 2021, according to a monthly survey, as lower new …