July 2021

Despite growing protests, French lawmakers have taken a further step towards the adoption of a bill that would introduce mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus for certain professions and condition access to cultural…

Paris : The French Senate has passed a milder version of a bill on wider use of health passes amid nationwide rallies against COVID-19 restrictions.More than 160,000 people took to the streets of France on Saturday to protest…

Published on: 07/25/2021 - 11:36 Following a new day of mobilization of its opponents, the law on the anti-Covid health…

President Emmanuel Macron's push for a referendum to make climate change measures more legally binding has ended after the upper house of the French parliament voted against it.The initiative to include clauses on climate change in the…

The Eiffel Tower is surrounded by a haze of small particles that hovers above the skyline of Paris, France on December 9, 2016, as the City of Lights has experienced the worst air pollution in a decade. REUTERS FILE PHOTO PARIS - The…

Published on: 07/06/2021 - 12:35Amended: 07/06/2021 - 12:36 The French Senate voted to block a referendum promised by…

House > Law and politics > Downloading music via stream extraction tools can be perfectly legal, the French Ministry of Culture has confirmed. The resulting copies fall under the private copying exemption. However,…

PARIS, July 5 – The French Senate has voted to block a referendum promised by President Emmanuel Macron on whether or not to include the fight against climate change in the French Constitution, he said in a…

Published on: 07/02/2021 - 12:09 French police spent 15 hours raiding the Justice Department as part of an…

Investigators in France raided the country's justice ministry as part of an investigation into Eric Dupond-Moretti, the man appointed by President Emmanuel Macron to shake up the justice system, his…