A simplified 'declaration' process for claiming certain benefits in France is being rolled out nationwide, following a ...

France's PM François Bayrou on Tuesday night laid out some of the ways the government will seek to dramatically reduce its ...

France's prime minister may be right in telling the French they need to work more, but he has little hope in persuading the ...

Over recent nights several French prisons have been targeted with cars burned and mysterious tags spray painted on vehicles ...

It's a telling image, as larguer means ridding yourself of something you don’t want anymore - like a lover. For example, if a French friend tells you, je me suis fait larguer hier soir, it means they ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday will bestow awards on around 100 craftspeople and officials who helped restore Notre Dame to its former glory after a fire nearly destroyed the beloved ...

After frustrated passengers boarded the 'trains of anger' on Tuesday to protest chronic delays and cancellations along two French rail lines, The Local reveals which train routes are actually the ...

A cryotherapy session in Paris has turned deadly with one woman dying and another hospitalised in critical condition due to a ...

Cars have been set on fire near several prisons in France while one was targeted with automatic gunfire, in possible retaliation against government anti-drug policies, justice ministry officials said ...

In an op-ed for the French daily Libération, former French President François Hollande and the head of France's Aix-Marseille University called for the creation of a special refugee status for ...

France launched a vaccine renewal campaign on Monday aimed at protecting the elderly and those most vulnerable to developing ...

Être preneur - roughly pronounced eh-truh pren-urr - at first glance looks like ‘entrepreneur’ but it does not have anything to do with being a businessman. In reality, it translates as ‘to be a taker ...