Boost for Ireland as Hollande urges EU leaders to act over banking debtIRELAND’S EFFORTS to build European support for a deal to ease its multibillion-euro bank debt received a boost from Paris yesterday…Thu Oct 18 2012 - 01:00
Hollande pledges to promote democracy at Africa summitFRENCH PRESIDENT François Hollande has pledged to recast France’s relationships with its former colonies in Africa after repudiating…Sat Oct 13 2012 - 01:00
Strauss-Kahn admits to being 'naive'DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN has complained he has become the target of a media “manhunt” and appealed to be left alone as he attempts…Thu Oct 11 2012 - 01:00
ECB did more for Ireland than any other country, says TrichetTHE EUROPEAN Central Bank did more to finance the Irish economy before the State’s bailout than “perhaps any central bank did…Thu Oct 11 2012 - 01:00
French police find bomb-making materialsFRENCH POLICE discovered bomb-making materials and weapons yesterday as the investigation continued into a group of suspected…Thu Oct 11 2012 - 01:00
Dissent in Hollande's ranks fails to stop fiscal pactFRANCE’S National Assembly has approved the EU fiscal treaty despite a small revolt from members of president François Hollande…Wed Oct 10 2012 - 01:00
France faces Islamist threat, warns Jewish groupFRANCE HAS not fully taken stock of the threat it faces from radical Islamism, a leading Jewish figure warned as police operations…Tue Oct 09 2012 - 01:00
French police dismantle network that targeted JewsFRENCH PRESIDENT François Hollande pledged to increase security around synagogues and enact tougher anti-terrorism laws after…Mon Oct 08 2012 - 01:00
French volte-face on new capital gains tax measureTHE FRENCH government is set to reverse a tax increase it announced just last week after an online campaign against it by small…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Pigeons cry fowl over French tax increasesEVERYONE ELSE in France seems to have complained about the tough budget unveiled last week by president François Hollande’s government…Thu Oct 04 2012 - 01:00
PM warns of euro collapse if France rejects treatyFRANCE’S PRIME minister has warned that a French rejection of the EU fiscal treaty would cause a political crisis and the collapse…Wed Oct 03 2012 - 01:00
Strauss-Kahn charges droppedFrench prosecutors have shelved an investigation into allegations that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a…Wed Oct 03 2012 - 01:00
France at odds with Germany over Irish bank 'legacy' debtGERMANY AND France are heading for a clash over Ireland’s bank debts as divisions deepen over the scope of a plan to use the …Sat Sept 29 2012 - 01:00
Seeking work where jobless rate for young is at 23%FRANCE: ELISE IWASINTA doesn’t have a job, but looking for one is full-time workWed Sept 26 2012 - 01:00
Europe's fiscal treaty returns to haunt HollandeANALYSIS: IT WAS an electoral trump card for François Hollande just four months ago, so how can the EU fiscal treaty have become…Wed Sept 26 2012 - 01:00
Hollande resists push to sack two GreensFRENCH PRESIDENT François Hollande resisted pressure to sack Green Party members of his cabinet yesterday after the junior partner…Tue Sept 25 2012 - 01:00
Le Pen call for religious headwear ban criticisedFRENCH FAR-RIGHT leader Marine Le Pen has been rebuked by political opponents after she called for a ban on the wearing in public…Sat Sept 22 2012 - 01:00
France bans protests over cartoonsFrance confirmed today it would allow no street protests against cartoons denigrating Islam's Prophet Mohammad that were published…Fri Sept 21 2012 - 01:00
Paris braced for protests over cartoonFRENCH EMBASSIES and schools in 20 countries will close today as Paris braces itself for protests against the publication by …Fri Sept 21 2012 - 01:00
Irish culture shines in the city of lightWATCHING HUNDREDS of people gather in the magnificent courtyard of the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris on Tuesday evening for …Thu Sept 20 2012 - 01:00
French cartoons of Muhammad spur security fearsFRANCE HAS stepped up security at its embassies around the world amid fears of a violent backlash after a satirical Paris-based…Thu Sept 20 2012 - 01:00
Royals get injunction over topless imagesA FRENCH COURT has banned the celebrity magazine Closer from republishing or distributing topless photographs of Catherine, Duchess…Wed Sept 19 2012 - 01:00
France's stance will be crucial in next phase of euro crisisANALYSIS: IN THE diplomatic choreography of the euro zone’s debt crisis, honed over years spent dousing rolling economic wildfires…Wed Sept 19 2012 - 01:00
Royals seek to block sale of imagesLEGAL ACTION: LAWYERS FOR the British royal family have sought an injunction to force the French magazine Closer to withdraw…Tue Sept 18 2012 - 01:00
France moves to block further anti-US demonstrations after up to 250 protest in ParisFRANCE HAS pledged to prevent any further anti-US demonstrations after an unauthorised protest by up to 250 people in Paris prompted…Tue Sept 18 2012 - 01:00
Debt relief deadline slips as Noonan warns against rushTHE PROSPECT of Ireland securing a deal in October on banking debt relief has receded after Minister for Finance Michael Noonan…Thu Sept 13 2012 - 01:00
State unlikely to meet bank deal deadline, concedes NoonanTHE GOVERNMENT has said its hopes of securing a bank debt deal for Ireland in October was a “target, not a deadline”.Thu Sept 13 2012 - 01:00
Noonan in Paris for bailout talksMinister for Finance Michael Noonan has said it could be in Ireland's interests to push beyond October the deadline for a deal…Wed Sept 12 2012 - 01:00
French lawyers to make complaint over Bailey appealLAWYERS FOR the parents of murdered French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier will lodge a formal complaint against Ireland at the…Wed Sept 12 2012 - 01:00
Hollande wields axe to recoup billionsFRANCE IS braced for its biggest round of budgetary tightening in half a century after President François Hollande lowered the…Tue Sept 11 2012 - 01:00
Single automatic pistol used in Alps killingsFRENCH POLICE believe a single automatic pistol was used in the attack that killed three tourists and a local man in the Alps…Tue Sept 11 2012 - 01:00
French newspaper handbags Vuitton billionaireTHE POLITICAL storm over a decision by France’s richest man, luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, to seek Belgian citizenship…Tue Sept 11 2012 - 01:00
British girl out of coma and set to be questionedTHE SEVEN-year-old British girl who survived a gun attack in the French Alps last week that saw her father and mother shot dead…Mon Sept 10 2012 - 01:00
High tax row as France's richest man seeks Belgian citizenshipBERNARD ARNAULT, France’s richest man, set off a row over President François Hollande’s plan to introduce a 75 per cent wealth…Mon Sept 10 2012 - 01:00
Bond-buying seen by some as victory for HollandeFRANCE HAS hailed the European Central Bank’s new bond-buying programme as a vital step in efforts to contain the euro zone debt…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
Police think British man may have been targetFRENCH POLICE investigating the shooting dead of four people in a suspected ambush in the Alps believe Saad al-Hilli, an Iraqi…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
'We don't know who could have done this. We have no idea'“It was tremendous savagery,” said public prosecutor Eric Maillaud, “and what is certain is that somebody wanted to kill.” Beyond…Fri Sept 07 2012 - 01:00
Killings in French Alps leave police searching for motiveIT WAS about 3.50pm on Wednesday when a British cyclist, a former British Royal Air Force member, approached the car park on …Fri Sept 07 2012 - 01:00
Alps victims shot in the headThree of the four people killed in a deadly attack near Lake Annecy in the French Alps were shot in the head, a public prosecutor…Thu Sept 06 2012 - 01:00
Hollande and Monti urge ECB action on bond yieldsFRANCE AND Italy have urged the European Central Bank to act to ease financial pressure on struggling euro zone states, raising…Wed Sept 05 2012 - 01:00
French Socialists move to avert backbench revolt over fiscal treatyTHE FRENCH government has moved to avert an embarrassing backbench revolt on the EU fiscal treaty, warning that a close vote …Tue Sept 04 2012 - 01:00
Hollande criticised over rise in joblessFRENCH PRESIDENT François Hollande came under renewed pressure over his handling of the economy yesterday after the number of…Tue Sept 04 2012 - 01:00
French government rescues mortgage providerTHE FRENCH government has agreed to rescue Crédit Immobilier de France (CIF), after conceding defeat in attempts to find a buyer…Mon Sept 03 2012 - 01:00
ECB may oversee all banks in euro zoneTHE EUROPEAN Central Bank would be given oversight of all 6,000 banks in the euro zone under a plan being drafted by the European…Sat Sept 01 2012 - 01:00
Hollande rejects calls to deploy army to MarseilleFRENCH PRESIDENT François Hollande has rejected calls for the army to be sent in to tackle armed criminals in Marseille after…Sat Sept 01 2012 - 01:00
Writer's essay on Breivik killings provokes outrageA French author has caused outrage by calling the mass killings ‘what Norway deserved’Fri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
Matchmaker to millionairesWILD GEESE Mairéad Molloy, Client director, Berkeley International, Cannes A dating agency that attracts the rich and…Fri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
Missing McAreavey witness is interviewedA FORMER bellboy who was one of the first people to arrive at the scene of Michaela McAreavey’s murder in Mauritius has been …Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
France faces deeper cuts and threat of recessionFRANÇOIS HOLLANDE’S government may be forced into deeper than expected spending cuts in the autumn after the Bank of France said…Thu Aug 09 2012 - 01:00
Unlikely insult that gives France's political class palpitationsPARIS LETTER: THE WORD is emphatically taboo, a flaming red rag no French minister with a handle on history or even the shakiest…Wed Aug 08 2012 - 01:00
