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Nearly Half of French Under-30s Now See Entrepreneurship as an Ideal Career
Bpifrance's 2025 entrepreneurial index reveals a sharp generational split: young people are more confident, more likely ...
French TV Host Loses €9,000 in Caller-ID Bank Scam
Agathe Lecaron says a fake call displayed her bank’s name, and a second scam targeted her mobile operator. Her bank refu...
Medef Flexes Political Muscle Ahead of France's 2027 Presidential Race
The French employers' federation is using a 66,000-company survey and a candidate debate at Roland-Garros to make busine...
France's Richest Already Pay Proportionally More Tax, Peyrelevade Argues
A French parliamentary inquiry has forced the tax authority to publish long-held top-income data, reviving a dispute ove...
Why France's 500,000 Business Handovers Stall Before Successors Sign On
France's succession debate focuses on finding buyers, but a quieter obstacle is emerging: identified heirs walk away bec...
France's Poverty Spike Renews Call to Shift Social Policy From Repair to Prevention
France's poverty rate hit 16.3% in 2025, argues precarity specialist Florian Guyot, exposing a welfare system that repai...
easyJet Cancels Around 100 France Flights as Cabin Crew Strike Over Last-Minute Roster Changes
More than half of easyJet France's roughly 900 cabin crew struck over unstable schedules on the August 15 weekend, forci...
Attal Wants Referendum on Under-15 Social Media Ban After Court Censure
Gabriel Attal is urging Macron to put the censured under-15 social media ban to a referendum, arguing it is the fastest ...
French Co-ownerships Add Summer Comfort to Renovation Plans, but Long Timelines Delay Relief
After multiple heatwaves, French co-owners are prioritising cooling and shading, but AGM cycles, three-year renovation t...
French Summer Budgets Drop €287, Pushing Holidaymakers From Restaurants to Picnics
A Cofidis survey puts the average French summer holiday budget at €1,748, down €287 on 2025. Families are swapping resta...
Rhine Drought Leaves Eastern French Service Stations Short of Petrol
Water at Kaub has fallen to 130cm, forcing barges to cut fuel cargoes by 80% and leaving up to half of Haut-Rhin and Bel...
French Prosecutors Open Probe Into Tax Authority Hack Exposing 700,000 Records
Paris's cybercrime unit is investigating a late-June intrusion that extracted sensitive tax and household data from the ...
French Court Clears Defense and End-of-Life Laws, Sends Child Social Media Rules Back
The Constitutional Council has cleared major parts of the French government's agenda, including a doubled military budge...
Retired Steelworkers Guard the Memory of Uckange's Last Blast Furnace
More than thirty years after the final cast at the Lorfonte works, a small group of former steelworkers is preserving th...
France's Top Court Approves Assisted Dying for Adults With Incurable Illness
The Constitutional Council upheld the July law in full, but ordered clarifications on conscience clauses and private hea...
France's IGF and Igas Propose €4.2bn in Family Policy Cuts
A government spending review published in July proposes changes to housing aid, family allowances and tax breaks that co...
French Tax Site Breach: How Stolen Fiscal Data Could Fuel Targeted Scams
France's DGFiP has confirmed that hackers accessed taxpayer data after impersonating an authorised user. If names, addre...
Received a Traffic Fine You Didn't Commit? Here's How to Contest It in France
A surprise French fine often stems from a plate-cloning 'doublette' or a roadside transcription error. Don't pay: file a...
BNP Paribas and Free Mobile Ordered to Repay €16,964 in SIM-Swap Fraud Case
Paris court finds bank and mobile operator liable after an 82-year-old customer's number was hijacked and fraudulent tra...
France Weighs Below-Inflation Pension Rises for Affluent Retirees
Bercy is reviving a politically explosive idea for 2027: smaller pension indexation for better-off retirees, while shiel...
When Les Echos Warned France Could Not Build Marinas for Every Boat
A 1976 Les Echos report traced the surge in French pleasure boating and a dry-stack storage idea for small boats as bert...
French Mega-Universities Chase Shanghai Ranking Points Through Star Researchers
A Fields Medal for mathematician Hong Wang is boosting the institutions behind France's merged Paris-Saclay group as the...
Trump Orders Navy to Abandon Electromagnetic Catapults and Return to Steam on Carriers
The president's directive reverses a core Ford-class technology, potentially costing billions and unsettling France's ne...
France Extends C3IV Green Industry Tax Credit to End-2028
Eligible battery, wind, solar and heat-pump supply-chain investments can receive up to 35% tax relief, with approval req...
France's C3IV Green Industry Tax Credit Extension Enters Force
The three-year extension of France's C3IV green industry tax credit is now in force, targeting €8bn in additional indust...
Jellyfish and a Solar Eclipse Test France's Power Grid
Jellyfish halted or curtailed five EDF reactors at Gravelines, while a solar eclipse threatened to shave 1.8 GW from sol...
Drought Fire Bans Leave French Pyrotechnic Firms Counting a Lost Summer
Prefects across France have cancelled August 15 fireworks over fire risk, hitting summer-dependent pyrotechnic businesse...
Solar Eclipse Draws Tourists and a €350m Boost to Spain and France
Spain puts the economic lift at almost €350m as Iberia adds special flights and Biarritz fills up; certified eclipse gla...
Heatwaves Turn Top-Floor Paris Flats Into 'Ovens' and Reshape Home Searches
Estate agents say shutters, air conditioning and sun-protected layouts are now top search criteria as France faces its f...
French Firms' AI Use Triples to 18%, Nearing EU Average, Insee Says
An Insee survey finds 18% of French companies with 10 or more staff used AI in 2025, tripling since 2023 and close to th...