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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    News in-depthSexual misconduct allegations
    Thousands of French incest victims share experiences on social media

    Online campaign follows scandal that rocked Parisian intellectual elite

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc
    How Couche-Tard’s ambitious bid for Carrefour was cut down

    Canadian group pitched its €16.2bn plan as a chance to forge a French-speaking retail giant

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc
    Canada’s Couche-Tard ends €16.2bn takeover talks with Carrefour

    Last-minute intervention by Quebec’s economy minister fails to win round French government

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Carrefour SA
    France issues ‘clear and final no’ over Carrefour takeover bid

    Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard has offered €16.2bn for supermarket company

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    News in-depth
    French left eyes a narrow path to power in 2022

    Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo seen as possible saviour for enfeebled Socialist party 

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Retail sector
    Couche-Tard faces clash with French government over Carrefour bid

    Finance minister talks of threat to ‘food sovereignty’ while analysts puzzled by €16bn approach for retailer

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    News in-depthSexual misconduct allegations
    Child incest scandal shakes French intelligentsia 

    Prominent political analyst Olivier Duhamel resigns from Sciences Po after stepdaughter’s book 

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Philip Stephens
    Emmanuel Macron’s France is a post-imperial power in search of a role

    Germany has assumed the position of European leadership it once promised its neighbour

  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    France reopens border with UK after virus closure

    British army to test truck drivers for new Covid strain before letting them cross but backlog may last days

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  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK isolated as countries ban travel and limit freight over Covid variant

    Britain and EU to hold separate emergency meetings on Monday to deal with escalating crisis

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Emmanuel Macron tests positive for coronavirus

    Contact with French president prompts PM and leaders of Spain and Portugal to self-isolate

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    News in-depth
    French Muslims divided over Macron’s planned law to curb Islamism

    Some say government treats them as second-class citizens while others praise crackdown on extremism

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
    ‘Generation VGE’ owe a debt to a reformer French president

    A cohort that includes Emmanuel Macron can learn lessons from the presidency of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    French economy and the pandemic: ‘It’s the calm before the storm’

    Paris was quick to provide cheap loans to businesses but is now assessing if more radical steps will be needed

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    News in-depth
    Macron’s government unveils law targeting Islamists

    Plan includes curbs on home schooling and ban on gender segregation at public swimming pools

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    German politics
    Merkel calls for extension to Covid restrictions as deaths increase

    Germany and France struggle to contain ‘second wave’ of pandemic before Christmas

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Macron vows to keep defence ties to Egyptian regime

    French president welcomes Sisi to Paris and rejects sanctions over human rights abuses

  • Friday, 4 December, 2020
    Brexit
    Brexit wrangle turns into classic Anglo-French confrontation

    As UK-EU trade talks go down to the wire, France’s president Emmanuel Macron is refusing to approve a deal at any price

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    France
    France to investigate 76 mosques suspected of ‘separatism’

    Interior minister’s crackdown is the latest move by the Macron government to target Islamists

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    ObituaryValéry Giscard d'Estaing
    Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former president of France, 1926-2020

    Centre-right liberaliser who furthered the cause of European integration but paid the price of the oil shocks of the 1970s

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    News in-depth
    Macron seeks quick escape from security law fiasco

    French voters still respond to law-and-order message despite police brutality

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    French police probe officers over beating of black music producer

    Protesters demand Macron drop police identity clause from security law

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Incidents of police brutality trigger French climbdown on security law

    Macron says images of police officers beating up a black music producer ‘shamed’ France

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Emmanuel Macron’s illiberal plan to protect the French police

    The president is pandering to the right with a new security law

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    French MPs approve contentious security law

    Police destruction of migrant camp in Paris bolsters critics of new legislation

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