TotalFina, Elf Aquitaine agree terms for mergerFrance's two largest oil companies, TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine, have announced they will merge, creating the world's fourth-…Tue Sept 14 1999 - 01:00
French economy leaps from economic horror to euphoriaLike President Clinton the French Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, came to office at the tail-end of a particularly bad stretch…Fri Sept 10 1999 - 01:00
Cresson may now face criminal investigationAs the European Parliament began screening 19 new EU commissioners for ethical probity yesterday, Mrs Edith Cresson, the woman…Tue Aug 31 1999 - 01:00
French retail groups agree to friendly mergerFrance's two largest retail groups, Carrefour and Promodes, are expected to announce a friendly merger based on an exchange of…Mon Aug 30 1999 - 01:00
Mitterrand accused of anti-Semitic remarkWas President Francois Mitt errand an anti-Semite? France's Socialist Prime Minister, Mr Lionel Jospin, and Mitterrand's illegitimate…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Regulator struggles to end bank rowThe fate of two of France's biggest banks, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and the Societe Generale (SocGen) was to be decided…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Aircraft carrier a floating French jokeWhat takes 12 years to build, is 15 per cent over budget at a cost of Ffr 20 billion (£2Fri Aug 27 1999 - 01:00
Lead pipes create poisoning risk in French tap waterHundreds of years from now, scientists analysing the bones of 20th century Parisians may discover that they - like the ancient…Thu Aug 26 1999 - 01:00
Diana crash report holds Dodi Fayed partly to blame for accidentIn a further blow to Mr Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian millionaire whose son was killed in a car accident with Princess Diana…Wed Aug 25 1999 - 01:00
French farmers stampede against McDonald's beefPerhaps Ronald McDonald guessed he was symbolising the world's biggest restaurant chain when the first golden arches rose in …Tue Aug 24 1999 - 01:00
French deny risk to health from contaminated feedThe French government has made no attempt whatsoever to trace meat and bonemeal contaminated by sewage in six French plants as…Thu Aug 19 1999 - 01:00
Latest killings wake Algeria to grim statistics of president's ruleThe gunmen set up their faux barrage (fake checkpoint) at Beni Ounif, on the desert highway parallel to the Moroccan border on…Wed Aug 18 1999 - 01:00
Inquiry into mixing of sewage with animal food demandedA French opposition parliamentarian, Mr Jean-Jacques Guillet, has called for a commission of inquiry into the animal feed scandal…Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00
Defiant SocGen chief rules out sale of bankAs French banking authorities begin to consider the fate of the bank he chairs, Mr Daniel Bouton has warned that "the Societe…Tue Aug 17 1999 - 01:00
BNP secures effective control of Paribas after bitter fightingBanque Nationale de Paris (BNP) has obtained control of the French investment bank Paribas, the French Council for Financial …Mon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
Minorities protest at failure to get their voices heardAs Several thousand musicians and dancers from Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Asturia and Galicia paraded through…Thu Aug 12 1999 - 01:00
Banks saga draws to uncertain closeThe biggest take-over battle in French banking history was scheduled to end at midnight last night, the deadline for swapping…Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
An underworld empire that invites tourists to see how death could have undone so manyEver since the Paris catacombs were opened at the beginning of the last century, tourists have flocked to the doorway marked "…Wed Aug 04 1999 - 01:00
Anguish for family as murder inquiry drags onSince their son and nephew Trevor O'Keeffe was murdered in north-eastern France 12 summers ago, Eroline O'Keeffe and Noeleen …Tue Aug 03 1999 - 01:00
France becomes first EU state to be convicted of tortureIn a humiliating blow for the "country of human rights", France yesterday became the first EU state to be convicted of torture…Thu Jul 29 1999 - 01:00
`Sabre of God' is laid to restKing Hassan II, "Sabre of God on Earth", "Forward Sentinel of Islam", "Commander of the Faithful" and 17th monarch of a dynasty…Mon Jul 26 1999 - 01:00
Morocco prince enthroned after death of strongman HassanThe longest reigning Arab monarch, King Hassan II of Morocco, died yesterday two weeks after his 70th birthdaySat Jul 24 1999 - 01:00
From ceili band to following in the footsteps of BeckettWhen Siofra Pierse arrived in Paris to take up her position as a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieure, her fellow professors…Tue Jul 20 1999 - 01:00
Chirac must ask are friends to left or right as he reviews troopsJuly 14th is supposed to be the French president's special dayWed Jul 14 1999 - 01:00
Portraits of the artist in ParisJames Joyce would have felt at home in the Espace Paul Ricard in Paris's Rue Royale on Monday nightSat Jul 10 1999 - 01:00
Amnesty law raises faint hope of first steps to end Algeria's civil warWhen Algerian generals cancelled the country's first democratic elections in January 1992, few Algerians realised that they were…Tue Jul 06 1999 - 01:00
Bombed bridges dominate collective imaginationThe fish at the Alaska Koliba open-air restaurant are fresh, and if you pay them enough, the gypsy singers who croon Love Me …Tue Jun 22 1999 - 01:00
Time for some beer between burning housesSerbian Kosovo will cease to exist today, if not in law, at least in fact.Wed Jun 16 1999 - 01:00
NATO two days late to save baby KforNATO arrived in Pristina too late to save KforTue Jun 15 1999 - 01:00
Exit the Serbs but NATO's delayed entry deepens anxietyThe woman from the defence ministry in Belgrade was in a bad moodSat Jun 12 1999 - 01:00
Russian troops welcomed in Pristina by cheering SerbsThousands of wildly cheering Kosovo Serbs greeted Russian troops as liberators at 1Sat Jun 12 1999 - 01:00
Taste of peace for Belgrade despite the faltering talksA band played down the street and residents of the Serbian capital savoured cold beer and a few more hours of ignorant, peaceful…Mon Jun 07 1999 - 01:00
Europe and its illusionsWhat a proud place Marshal Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia was! Founded by second World War partisans who drove the Nazis out of…Sat Jun 05 1999 - 01:00
Peace negotiations hinge on who dictates termsBefore the Russian and EU peace envoys arrived here yesterday, Western leaders called on the Yugoslav President, Mr Slobodan …Thu Jun 03 1999 - 01:00
NATO bombers hit town `full of people'Father Milevoj Ceric's headless body lay on the mortuary slab just hours after he said MassMon May 31 1999 - 01:00
Old master's back home in ParisIn the last 30 years of his life Claude Monet painted his beloved garden at Giverny hundreds of times, preserving 250 canvases…Sat May 15 1999 - 01:00
Grieving, carnage and terror overshadow political effortsThe war in Yugoslavia produced some of the most appalling carnage of the conflict yesterday - overshadowing frenetic diplomatic…Thu Apr 29 1999 - 01:00
Draskovic's daring call prompts hope of peace movesIn what could be a breakthrough in the effort to restore peace to the Balkans, the Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Vuk Draskovic…Tue Apr 27 1999 - 01:00
NATO attack kills at least 10 on passenger train in SerbiaThe civilian death toll in NATO's 20-day war against Yugoslavia rose sharply again yesterday when a passenger train in southeast…Tue Apr 13 1999 - 01:00
An eerily empty city where identity papers are strewn in rubbleCentral Pristina was still burning yesterday when we arrived a few hours after NATO's bombers departedThu Apr 08 1999 - 01:00
NATO bombs answer ceasefire offerNATO responded with new bombing attacks last night to the unilateral ceasefire announced yesterday by the governments of Serbia…Wed Apr 07 1999 - 01:00
Milosevic pulls two nasty surprises for NATO from his hatJust when NATO thought it was safe to go on with the bombing..Fri Apr 02 1999 - 01:00
NATO orders attacks after Russian plan is rejectedNATO forces resumed their bombing campaign against Yugoslavia last night after the Western allies rejected a Russian proposal…Wed Mar 31 1999 - 01:00
Air raid sirens resume after Primakov leavesThe Russian Prime Minister, Mr Yevgeny Primakov, met President Slobodan Milosevic yesterday for six hours in the first serious…Wed Mar 31 1999 - 01:00
Deserted streets and silence on the dark road to BelgradeThe model of the fighter bomber stood poised on a plinth, surrounded by trees and shining in the moonlight in front of usFri Mar 26 1999 - 00:00
French keen to seize initiativeIn the immediate aftermath of the EU Commission's resignation, Paris advocated leaving the outgoing Commission in place in a …Wed Mar 24 1999 - 00:00
Predatory moves pose threat to old ways of doing businessWhen Mr Michel Pebereau, the chief executive of the Banque Nationale de Paris, announced his still unresolved hostile take-over…Wed Mar 24 1999 - 00:00
Schroder, Chirac agree agenda for Berlin summitIN A sun-flooded room with pink roses on the table, the leaders of France and Germany yesterday discussed the momentous issues…Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00
Monitors leave Kosovo as talks collapseThe co-chairmen of the Kosovo peace talks suspended negotiations yesterday, one day after the ethnic Albanian delegation signed…Sat Mar 20 1999 - 00:00
Success eludes parties at Kosovo peace talksNo speeches, no celebrations, and the ceremony lasted less than five minutesFri Mar 19 1999 - 00:00
