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Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with more than three decades of experience in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently Paris bureau chief for Financial Times, and has been previously worked as Asia editor and Asia news editor based in Hong Kong. He has written books on the River Ganges and on the modernisation of south-east Asia.
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  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    US trade
    France signals breakthrough in US digital tax talks

    Foreign ministry official says two sides have reached ‘ceasefire’ avoiding tariff escalation

  • Monday, 13 January, 2020
    African politics
    France to send more troops to Sahel anti-Islamist war

    Macron and African leaders bolster campaign against militants after recent setbacks

  • Saturday, 11 January, 2020
    French politics
    France seeks to defuse protests with pension climbdown

    Government drops retirement age at 64 but says deficit must be eliminated 

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
    French politics
    France hit by new mass protest over pensions

    Strike action against Macron reform plan becomes longest since May 1968

  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
    International tax
    France and US seek to resolve digital tax dispute

    Officials to hold talks to head off new round of US trade sanctions

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Retail sector
    Paris bears brunt of strikes as customers skip shops and theatres

    Second ‘nightmare’ December under Emmanuel Macron after gilets jaunes protests last year

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2019
    French politics
    Macron seeks to end strikes with pensions compromise

    Government holds firm on reform but says it can negotiate over retirement age

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2019
    Paris travel
    December strikes in Paris: travel disruptions to look out for

    Protests at pension reforms have disrupted rail and air links, plus national and international services

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2019
    French politics
    Unions turn up heat on Macron over pensions overhaul

    Strikes continue to cause disruption as demonstrators take to the streets and paralyse Paris

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    French PM to push ahead with pensions overhaul despite strikes

    Edouard Philippe outlines one of key economic reforms of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
    Ukraine
    Russia and Ukraine agree new ceasefire

    Putin and Zelensky meet in Paris for talks but lasting peace deal eludes leaders

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2019
    French politics
    French workers take to streets in pensions protest

    Emmanuel Macron confronts biggest public sector strike since 1995

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    US-China trade dispute
    Trump says he is prepared to wait for US-China trade deal

    Stock markets sell off as president warns that agreement could come after US election

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Climate change
    France seeks green standards for EU companies

    Bruno Le Maire outlines coal-exit strategy while warning that speed of change is too slow

  • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
    Nato
    Macron warns Turkey on Nato allies’ solidarity

    Ankara’s intervention in Syria ‘raises questions’ about alliance, French leader says

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    EU defence
    Thirteen French troops killed in Sahel war against Islamists

    Two helicopters crash in Mali in worst death toll in three decades for French military

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    French politics
    Macron jousts with hometown foes as discontent grows

    French president takes defiant message to streets and campuses ahead of wave of strikes

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Trade disputes
    Trump tariffs cast a cloud over Beaujolais arrivals

    French wines are among the European products caught up in transatlantic trade dispute

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    EU defence
    France urges Europeans to help crush Islamist threat in Sahel

    French troops facing ‘very difficult challenge’, defence minister Florence Parly says

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    Sexual misconduct allegations
    Polanski’s ‘J’accuse’ triggers fresh accusations

    Protesters target film director as mood over sex crimes shifts in France

  • Thursday, 14 November, 2019
    French politics
    Year of ‘gilets jaunes’ leaves angry mark on France

    The marches may have dwindled but Macron was forced to give ground

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Wine
    The glass is half empty for Bordeaux

    France is falling out of love with wine from its most celebrated region

  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    Terrorism
    West Africa moves to forefront of global war on terror

    Deadly attacks increase fear of terrorism and insecurity in the impoverished region

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    Nato
    Merkel rejects Macron warning over Nato ‘brain death’

    German chancellor hits back at French president’s attack on ‘lack of co-ordination’

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2019
    French politics
    France to ‘take back control’ of immigration policy

    Macron government says it will crack down on illegal migrants and fix quotas for foreign workers

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