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Online campaign follows scandal that rocked Parisian intellectual elite
Canadian group pitched its €16.2bn plan as a chance to forge a French-speaking retail giant
Last-minute intervention by Quebec’s economy minister fails to win round French government
Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard has offered €16.2bn for supermarket company
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo seen as possible saviour for enfeebled Socialist party
Finance minister talks of threat to ‘food sovereignty’ while analysts puzzled by €16bn approach for retailer
Prominent political analyst Olivier Duhamel resigns from Sciences Po after stepdaughter’s book
Germany has assumed the position of European leadership it once promised its neighbour
British army to test truck drivers for new Covid strain before letting them cross but backlog may last days
Britain and EU to hold separate emergency meetings on Monday to deal with escalating crisis
Contact with French president prompts PM and leaders of Spain and Portugal to self-isolate
Some say government treats them as second-class citizens while others praise crackdown on extremism
A cohort that includes Emmanuel Macron can learn lessons from the presidency of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
Paris was quick to provide cheap loans to businesses but is now assessing if more radical steps will be needed
Plan includes curbs on home schooling and ban on gender segregation at public swimming pools
Germany and France struggle to contain ‘second wave’ of pandemic before Christmas
French president welcomes Sisi to Paris and rejects sanctions over human rights abuses
As UK-EU trade talks go down to the wire, France’s president Emmanuel Macron is refusing to approve a deal at any price
Interior minister’s crackdown is the latest move by the Macron government to target Islamists
Centre-right liberaliser who furthered the cause of European integration but paid the price of the oil shocks of the 1970s
French voters still respond to law-and-order message despite police brutality
Protesters demand Macron drop police identity clause from security law
Macron says images of police officers beating up a black music producer ‘shamed’ France
The president is pandering to the right with a new security law
Police destruction of migrant camp in Paris bolsters critics of new legislation
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