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Why expanding €1 meal scheme won't solve student hardship in France

France, Feb. 22 -- Living on a shoestring has long been a feature of undergraduate life, but student poverty is rising in France. A recent survey ofmore than 5,000 university students, carried out by... Read More


How did Lyon become France's capital of political violence?

France, Feb. 20 -- Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old French nationalist, died from blows to the head during a clash between ultra-right and ultra-left activists in Lyon on 12 February. Deranque was inv... Read More


Why France's agriculture law may not help the farmers it claims to defend

France, Feb. 11 -- The Loi Duplomb, named after conservative senator Laurent Duplomb who proposed it, claims to ease pressure on farmers by loosening rules on pesticide use, large-scale livestock farm... Read More


How drinking culture, linked to French identity, can be a 'tool of exclusion'

France, Feb. 8 -- "I'm not anti-alcohol, I just want more tolerance," says journalist and writer Claire Touzard, who stopped drinking in 2020 and later published a best-selling bookabout her experienc... Read More


'A slightly crazy dream': the French collective reinventing the retirement home

France, Jan. 27 -- Their experiment is La Menardiere, a shared living project in the village of Berat, 40km from Toulouse. On a Saturday lunchtime, six of the 12 current members gather around a large... Read More


Macron seeks to reset France's Africa policy amid shrinking influence

France, Jan. 9 -- Speaking at the Elysee Palace during France's annual meeting with ambassadors on Thursday, Macronsaid French policy towards Africa had undergone a fundamental change since 2017,when ... Read More


France's last paper Braille publisher fights to survive in the digital age

France, Jan. 5 -- 2025 marked the 200th anniversary ofLouis Braille's invention of the six-dot tactile writing system that opened the door to literacy for millions of blind people. Two centuries on, ... Read More


What France can learn from Italy's fight against organised crime

France, Jan. 3 -- Shot dead at the age of 20 while parking his car in Marseille, Mehdi Kessaci was not involved in trafficking. Investigators believe he was targeted because of his brother Amine's out... Read More


'Every time there's a big rape case in France, it's like we're just discovering it'

France, Dec. 11 -- It's been almost a year since Dominique Pelicot and his 50 co-defendants were found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting Gisele Pelicot in her family home after she'd been drugg... Read More