French banks panic at vulnerability of `smart cards' to electronic fraudEver since a Frenchman named Roland Moreno invented the carte a puces or "smart-card" in the late 1970s, France has been the …Wed Mar 15 2000 - 00:00
Jospin's government seen to have lost its wayThe French Prime Minister cannot have been happy to see the newspapers yesterday.Tue Mar 14 2000 - 00:00
Surrealist poet of the streets commemoratedIf Jacques Prevert were alive today, he probably wouldn't think much of his 100th birthday celebrationsWed Mar 08 2000 - 00:00
Fabric Ireland drive bridges Border divideThe white-and-gold embossed cards for Thursday night's launch of the Fabric Ireland initiative in Paris will be collectors' items…Sat Mar 04 2000 - 00:00
Friend of Mitterrand brought down by a talkative mistressCharlie Haughey had his Charvet shirts, Roland Dumas his £1,320 Berluti shoesThu Mar 02 2000 - 00:00
Jospin defiant on Mid East policyIn an animated National Assembly debate yesterday, the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, refused to apologise for recent…Wed Mar 01 2000 - 00:00
Opposition plans assembly attack on Jospin for Middle East gaffeOpposition politicians are planning to attack the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, in the National Assembly this afternoon…Tue Feb 29 2000 - 00:00
Chador gives way as attitudes soften in IranWhen I met Roya at an Islamic conference in Tehran 11 years ago, she was a convinced revolutionaryWed Feb 23 2000 - 00:00
Reform parties sweep the polls in IranReformist parties loyal to President Mohamed Khatami have won a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections in IranMon Feb 21 2000 - 00:00
Iranian reformers attract the votesThey waited patiently to cast their ballots. Cheerfully and calmly, with self-confidence.Sat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Fuel-truck driver arrested over Lebanon deathsThe man suspected of causing the deaths of four Irish soldiers in a highway accident on Monday has been arrested by the Lebanese…Wed Feb 16 2000 - 00:00
`Black Road' claims lives of four Irish soldiersThey call it Lebanon's Black RoadTue Feb 15 2000 - 00:00
Time to raise a glass to JoyceThere seem to be no limits to the devotion of James Joyce fansSat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
The warrior of French politics, a `Hitchcockian beauty' doomed to be noticedThe French Justice Minister, Mrs Elisabeth Guigou, says it is twice as difficult for a woman to succeed in politics as a man, …Wed Feb 02 2000 - 00:00
French paradox casts long shadow on minimum wageAs the Republic prepares to adopt a minimum wage for the first time on April 1st, France celebrated the 30th anniversary of the…Fri Jan 28 2000 - 00:00
Jail fortress takes liberties with prisoners, book allegesThe French tricolour flutters over the giant steel gate of La Sante prisonWed Jan 19 2000 - 00:00
Corsica peace process invoked at trialSeven Corsican nationalists went on trial in Paris yesterday for attempting to extort four million francs (£480,192) in "protection…Tue Jan 18 2000 - 00:00
One of the `immortal ones' helps enrich the LouvreEnglish-speaking journalists are received royally in the former apartments of Napoleon III's equerry, for we are part of Mr Pierre…Wed Nov 24 1999 - 00:00
Assassination of Islamist leader deals blow to hopes of negotiated settlement in AlgeriaThe assassination of the moderate Islamist leader, Mr Abdelka der Hachani, in Algiers yesterday represents a serious blow to …Tue Nov 23 1999 - 00:00
French upbeat on beef despite EU legal moveFrench officials last night said they were confident that the six-week-old "mad cow war" between France and Britain could be …Wed Nov 17 1999 - 00:00
La belle Colette: she still inspires fascination, admiration and revulsionForty-five years after her death, Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette, known simply as Colette, still inspires fascination, admiration …Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
France honours `peace militant'While the French Minister spoke, it nestled on a gold-edged velvet pillow, waiting for the magical incantation: "John Hume, in…Thu Nov 11 1999 - 00:00
Palestinians `still knocking at door'Mr Yasser Arafat looked vulnerable on the stage of the Socialist International CongressWed Nov 10 1999 - 00:00
Crossing language's invisible frontierThe inside of John Lalor and Janet Ryan's apartment in Montmartre feels like an Irish cottage, with its painted board floor, …Wed Nov 10 1999 - 00:00
Desperately Seeking JoanThree grimy Englishmen with cockney accents and rotten teeth burst into a medieval French cottageSat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00
Chirac, Jospin square up for battleTwin financial scandals involving France's two leading political parties have claimed their second casualty this week - peaceful…Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:00
Strauss-Kahn cites sense of responsibility for resignationFor once, the French left and right used almost the same wordsWed Nov 03 1999 - 00:00
Iranian leader calls for a `radical and profound change' in political moralityPresident Mohammad Khatami likes the United NationsSat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Khatami reflects on the role played by man in building human civilisationIt was a deeply symbolic gesture, whose significance was perhaps lost on President Mohammad Khatami's French hosts, and on his…Fri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00
France bars Iranian exiles as Khatami arrives in ParisFor the first time since the Shah was overthrown in 1979, an Iranian head of state has come to ParisThu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00
EU ruling may enable `mad cow war' truceTomorrow's decision by the EU's Scientific Steering Committee could mean a ceasefire in the "mad cow war" between France and …Thu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00
Ben Barka's son to renew quest to find father's bodyDID Mehdi Ben Barka's killers put his body on a cargo aircraft at Rouen and dump him into the sea? Or was the Moroccan opposition…Wed Oct 27 1999 - 01:00
Jiang insulated from French dissentPresident Jacques Chirac couldn't have shown his Chinese counterpart a better timeTue Oct 26 1999 - 01:00
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Papon, now France's most wanted manAs the French lawyer Mr Arno Klarsfeld said: "The government and the justice system are responsible for Papon's escapingFri Oct 22 1999 - 01:00
Dumbfounded first lady of Paris defends her recordIn her pinstriped black suit and white beads, Mrs Xaviere Tiberi, wife of the Mayor of Paris, looked small and helpless as she…Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Papon still missing on eve of appealThe 89-year-old former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon, who was last year sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role …Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Liaisons dangereusesThe wife of the mayor of Paris goes to Mass every day and takes her rosary beads when she is questioned by magistratesSat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Touche Trichet as Banque prepares for bicentennialWith a carefully calculated balance of pride and power projection, sobriety and restraint, Mr Jean-Claude Trichet, the governor…Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:00
Sad case of `Sir Alfred' who has tied himself to an airport's apron stringsMehran Karimi Nasseri takes the 610Wed Oct 13 1999 - 01:00
Shirts store buttons up for Irish inquiriesCharlie Haughey must have loved shopping at CharvetThu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
France takes to streets in autumn ritualWhen Mr Lionel Jospin attended the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, American journalists asked him why French people were always…Wed Oct 06 1999 - 01:00
Employers in France march streets in protestHas the conservative French employers' association begun imitating the leftist trade unions it detests? You could be forgiven…Mon Oct 04 1999 - 01:00
French firm designed plantThe Tokaimura nuclear plant was designed by the French company SGN (Societe Generale des Techniques Nouvelles) and has been operating…Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Socialist Jospin's European vision faces new challengesWho will go down in history as the leader of the European left? With socialists in government in 11 of 15 EU countries and the…Wed Sept 29 1999 - 01:00
Mitchell in France for UNESCO peace awardIt must have been like waiting for Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists to agreeSat Sept 25 1999 - 01:00
Israel rebukes France over SyriaThe first official visit to Paris by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ehud Barak, was marred by a diplomatic contretemps when Israel…Fri Sept 24 1999 - 01:00
A great silenceJean-Simeon Chardin was perhaps the greatest painter of the 18th centurySat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00
Algerian president tests his policies with a pollAlgeria's 17.5 million voters were called to the polls yesterday for the sixth time in four years.Fri Sept 17 1999 - 01:00
French hail end of budgetary `spiral of debt'The French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has promised lower taxes, higher growth and more jobs…Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
Journalist who carries a camera as if it were a penIn the small, highly competitive world of photo-journalism, 72 year-old Goksin Sipahioglu, founder of one of the world's largest…Wed Sept 15 1999 - 01:00
