From now on, French civil servants are no longer allowed to have TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Netflix on their work phones. As an explanation, reference is made to insufficient data security and protection. The ban will take effect immediately, the French authorities report. France joins a growing list of countries […]
Negotiations within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about a digital tax – a tax on internet giants such as Google, Meta and Amazon – have stalled due to opposition from the United States, among others. That is what the French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, […]
An argument on a French nudist beach ended fatally on Saturday morning. A 76-year-old nudist shot and killed a 46-year-old man for harassing those present on the nudist beach and even masturbating to a woman. On the nude beach La Mama, located in the Grand Parc Miribel Jonage near […]
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has tendered her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron. He has refused “so that the government can continue to work these days”, the Elysée announced on Tuesday morning. The head of state will hold “the necessary political consultations (…) to find possible constructive solutions […]
French authorities have arrested five alleged fraudsters who allegedly produced some 62,000 fake vaccination certificates. Three of the suspects are said to have hacked the data of 35 doctors to make the evidence. The case came to light after a health insurance company discovered that a doctor was in […]
A person with a knife has attacked officers in Cannes, a coastal city in the south of France. At least one officer was injured. The attacker has been “eliminated”, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said. He said he was going to town on Monday morning. Authorities have not yet disclosed […]
Additional security measures have been taken in the French capital, Paris, in the run-up to the trial of the suspects in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the city. More than a thousand police officers are being deployed to maintain security during the trial. The attacks on Bataclan concert […]
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has reached an agreement to acquire partner biotechnology company Translate Bio. The billion-dollar deal is the first example of a major pharmaceutical company buying up a biotech company because of the technology behind some of the world’s best-selling corona vaccines; mRNA. Sanofi is catching up […]
The French economy, the second-largest in the eurozone, returned to growth in the second quarter. Helped by the winding down of the corona lockdown in the country, French consumers again spent a little more. Business investment also picked up, among other things. A preliminary estimate by the French statistical […]
The French government is accelerating on Wednesday in the program to lift the corona restrictions step by step. Curfew starts two hours later and then starts at 9 pm, and patios and non-essential businesses reopen. This is admittedly with limitations concerning the number of people and the available surfaces. […]
