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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...
From Etretat to Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat: 12 French Gardens for a Summer Escape
A Les Echos selection spans Normandy, Dordogne, Haute-Saône and the Côte d'Azur, mixing topiary, water gardens, botanica...
Inside Mouthe, the Jura 'Cold Hole' That Still Holds France's Record Low
The village of Mouthe keeps its minus 36.7°C national cold record thanks to a clear hollow where frigid air pools on sti...
French PER Default Management Masks Wide Performance Gaps, 2026 Report Warns
A Good Value for Money study finds France's default target-date PER management can produce very uneven returns and alloc...
Dominique Libault, Builder of France’s Fifth Social Security Branch, Dies
The former head of France’s social security directorate, who shaped the 2020 creation of a dedicated long-term care bran...
18 Months in Judicial Restructuring: How a Loire Restaurant Group Survived €1.8m in Debt
Imalyne exited court-supervised restructuring in February 2026, cutting two loss-making units while safeguarding 40 jobs...
How France's Prefectures Orchestrate the Response to Extreme Heat
Behind the heatwave warnings lies a structured chain of communication. From Météo-France's forecasts to mayors' crisis p...
What Revolut's French Banking Licence Unlocks: Loans, Overdrafts and a Local PEA
The UK neo-bank can now offer credit, overdrafts, savings and the popular French tax-advantaged stock plan, intensifying...
French Gas Reference Price to Rise 5.6% on September 1, Hitting 6 Million Households
The benchmark French gas price will climb to €172.05/MWh as wholesale costs surge due to the Middle East conflict, affec...
French Physio Students Face Forced Placement in Medical Deserts as Tuition Cost Divide Endures
France’s health insurer wants to force newly qualified physiotherapists to work two years in underserved areas, but stud...
France orders nursing homes to publish three key staffing indicators for family scrutiny
A decree now requires France’s 7,500 elderly care homes to publicly disclose their staff-to-resident ratio, absenteeism ...
Revolut Secures French Banking Licence, Plans to Move Millions of Western European Customers
The $115bn fintech will transfer customers from six countries to its new Paris-based entity, aiming to offer localized l...