Germany, France and Spain will try this week to break a deadlock over Europe’s next-generation fighter jet programme, a ...

France passed its social security budget, but the state budget remains unresolved, and the deficit outlook is worsening.

France imposed stricter controls to contain the contagious lumpy skin disease in cattle, saying the culling of entire infected herds was necessary to prevent the deaths of at least 1.5 million cows ...

Efforts to address entrenched gender bias in the French language ran into familiar resistance this week as lawmakers called for a ban on “gender-neutral” writing. But experts say the rearguard action ...

France has won the World Cup twice, coming out on top of the global tournament in 1998 and 2018. They've also been runners-up ...

A new pair of giant pandas is scheduled to arrive at France’s ZooParc de Beauval in 2027, starting a new 10-year cooperative term. On December 4th, 2025, the China Wildlife Conservation Association ...

The biometric ID card, introduced in August 2021, contains a microchip and a QR code. But what's really got the venerable academy’s back up is that every category has been translated in English, so it ...

Brigitte Macron used a slur to criticize protesters who had interrupted a show by a French comedian accused of rape in 2021, ...

There are few things the French find more annoying than what they call “French bashing”—a term they use in English, despite their insistence on finding French equivalents for foreign words. When Jean ...