France votes for the right to die — after four years, three chambers and one more hurdle
PARIS — France’s parliament gave final approval on Wednesday to a law allowing terminally ill adults to end their lives with prescribed…
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When religion becomes a barrier: discrimination appears in ordinary life across France
PARIS — Religious discrimination in France is not confined to the major public controversies or the high-profile arguments over laïcité. It can…
Police raids on Romanian yoga centers in France, one year later
On 28 November, it will be one year since a SWAT team of around 175 policemen wearing black masks, helmets, and bullet…
Paris opens its Games on the river: rain, boats and a city turned into a stadium
PARIS — They said it could not be done, and for an hour on Friday evening it seemed the rain might agree.…
The leader of the independence protests in New Caledonia arrested
Police in New Caledonia have arrested the leader of the country’s independence protest, Reuters reports. Christian Thane was detained before giving a…
France’s National Library has placed four books from the 19th century under “quarantine”
The National Library of France has placed four books from the 19th century “under quarantine”, reported AFP. The reason is that their…
France, the new law to fight against “sectarian abuses” in the field of health, subject to the control of the Constitutional Council
On April 15th, over sixty members of the National Assembly and over sixty Senators referred the newly adopted law “to reinforce the…
Covered in controversy: France’s bid to ban religious symbols imperils diversity at Paris 2024 Olympics
With the 2024 Paris Olympics fast approaching, a heated debate over religious symbols has erupted in France, pitting the country’s strict secularism…
30,000 EUR fine if you give out where there is a police post!
The police in Spain have warned that they will now strictly enforce these sanctions, and the same is expected in France.
France for the first time granted asylum to a Russian who escaped from mobilization
The French National Asylum Court (CNDA) for the first time decided to grant asylum to a Russian citizen who was threatened by…