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Renault workforce divided over carmaker’s move to build military drones Carmaker Renault is to begin manufacturing long-range military aerial drones alongside its vehicle production as part of the French government’s programme to increase its homegrown defence capacity …

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The tragedy and exploitation of the death of French far-right militant Quentin Deranque Eleven suspects with links to the anti-fascist movement have been arrested in the city of Lyon as suspects over the fatal assault last week of far-right activist Quentin Deranque, 23, who died from …

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France moves to oust UN Palestine rapporteur over comments she never made French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has called for the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, be removed from her post, claiming tha…

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Jeffrey Epstein and the French diplomat investigated by FBI over paedophile porn The French foreign affairs ministry was this week engulfed in a scandal centred on one of its diplomats cited in the so-called “Epstein Files” who, it now emerges, was in close contact with the late…

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Why Russia's ruling class is obsessed with the West Vladimir Putin and his ruling elite are obsessed with the West “which is simultaneously seen as both the main adversary and the only potential partner”, writes Ilya Budraitskis, a Russian historian p…

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Far-right RN in limbo ahead of 2027 presidential election as Marine Le Pen awaits appeal verdict Marine Le Pen is awaiting the verdict of the court of appeal in Paris in the case involving her and her party's misuse of European parliamentary funds. The hearing ends this week, with the ruling ex…

Far-right RN in limbo ahead of 2027 presidential election as Marine Le Pen awaits appeal verdict
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Ex-culture minister Jack Lang quits as head of prestigious Paris institute after Epstein revelations The former senior French government minister had been under mounting pressure after Mediapart’s revelations about his family's financial and business links with the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Ep…

Ex-culture minister Jack Lang quits as head of prestigious Paris institute after Epstein revelations
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Legendary French hardcore punk band Kickback's drift to the far-right The world-renowned Paris group is getting back together for a series of concerts in 2026, including one in Europe. But with a mixture of neo-fascist sympathies, misogyny and allusions to paedo-crimi…

Legendary French hardcore punk band Kickback's drift to the far-right
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The close financial ties between Jeffrey Epstein and the family of former French minister Jack Lang The Epstein files contain details of the disgraced US financier's links with the family of former French culture minister Jack Lang. They show that in 2016 Lang's daughter Caroline Lang, an influent…

The close financial ties between Jeffrey Epstein and the family of former French minister Jack Lang
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Paris hospital bosses punish same nurse twice for 'breaching' secular rules by wearing a surgical cap Last October hospital authorities in the Paris region dismissed a nurse who wore a head covering - a surgical cap - in apparent breach of France's rules on secularism in the workplace. An administra…

Paris hospital bosses punish same nurse twice for 'breaching' secular rules by wearing a surgical cap
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'I'm ashamed of my company': French IT giant Capgemini under fire for its links with America's ICE The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or ICE has made headlines around the world after the fatal shooting of two US citizens by its agents in Minneapolis. Now the controversy …

'I'm ashamed of my company': French IT giant Capgemini under fire for its links with America's ICE
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Why 'subsidy-seeking' and 'whinging' Ryanair is quitting Clermont-Ferrand airport in France Many regional airports in France see the low-cost airline Ryanair as vital, bringing in tourists and introducing a transport link to help open up isolated areas. This gives the Irish carrier a posit…

Why 'subsidy-seeking' and 'whinging' Ryanair is quitting Clermont-Ferrand airport in France
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How Mediapart uncovered the Front National 'fake jobs' scandal The political future of Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right, is currently being played out in a Paris court where she and 11 others are seeking to overturn, on appeal, their convictions in…

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For a reinvention of the Enlightenment The reactionary theorists in power in the United States identify themselves with a movement dubbed “the Dark Enlightenment”, an anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideology typified by the politics…

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France sues UK private equity firm after collapse of steelmaking plants French industry minister Sébastien Martin this week announced the launch of legal action, in the name of the French state, against British private equity firm Greybull Capital. France is seeking dam…

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The EU-Mercosur deal and Macron's waning influence in Europe The European Union on Saturday signed a major free-trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, promoted as creating the world’s largest free-trade zone, with a population of 700 million. The d…

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Top French court rules all corporal punishment of children is illegal In a landmark ruling this week, the highest French appeal court, the Cour de Cassation, threw out a lower court’s finding that a parent has a right by customary law to discipline their children usin…

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Far-right leader Marine Le Pen fights for her political future at appeal court hearing In March 2025 Marine Le Pen was convicted at first instance of embezzling European parliamentary funds through a fake jobs scam involving her far-right party the Front National, now called Rassemble…

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen fights for her political future at appeal court hearing
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The EU–Mercosur trade deal: a ticking climate time bomb and biodiversity catastrophe On Friday a majority of European Union states voted to accept the Mercosur free trade deal despite opposition from France. Yet the climatic and environmental impacts of this agreement with the South…

The EU–Mercosur trade deal: a ticking climate time bomb and biodiversity catastrophe
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Time for the world's peoples to stand together against the chaos of the predators As the abduction of the Venezuelan president has shown, Donald Trump’s expansionist and neo-reactionary policy is an assault on every citizen of the planet, writes Mediapart's publishing editor in t…

Time for the world's peoples to stand together against the chaos of the predators
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Macron's moral and historic error over US intervention in Venezuela France's president Emmanuel Macron has endorsed - without the slightest reservation - the military operation carried out by Donald Trump to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. In dong so, arg…

Macron's moral and historic error over US intervention in Venezuela
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How Russia became locked into 'imperial despotism' In a recent book, French historian Sabine Dullin argues that the way Vladimir Putin wields power - and his war of aggression in Ukraine – is rooted in methods of Russian rule developed over several c…

How Russia became locked into 'imperial despotism'
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Devoid of influence, President Macron offers little more than pious hopes in New Year message France's head of state sought to put himself front and centre stage when delivering the traditional presidential New Year address to the nation on December 31st. “This will be a productive year,” pr…

Devoid of influence, President Macron offers little more than pious hopes in New Year message
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New Algerian law criminalising French colonialism reflects rising anger across Africa After several months of preparation work, on December 24th the Algerian Parliament adopted a law which criminalises France's colonisation of the North African country and calls for reparations. Paris…

New Algerian law criminalising French colonialism reflects rising anger across Africa
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When Brigite Bardot was 'a phenomenal accelerator of change' in French society Brigitte Bardot, who died on Sunday at her home in Saint-Tropez at the age of 91, was French cinema’s first “superstar”, once regarded as an icon of women’s liberation in conservative, pre-May 1968 …

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The political challenges facing Corsica’s growing ‘anti-mafia’ movement The activities of organised crime gangs in Corsica have long gangrened society on the French Mediterranean island, where intimidation tactics and their imposed law of silence have allowed corruption…

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The Gaza chronicles (part seven): the 'hypocrisy of Europe' “From Paris, I watch the European continent congratulate itself for finally recognizing Palestine, even as it bankrolls the projects of walls, buffer zones, and ‘migration management’ systems that m…

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Prosecutors probe funding deals when basketball star Wembanyama was lured to French club Before he joined the San Antonio Spurs in the US, the French basketball prodigy Victor Wembanyama, now an MBA superstar, played for one year with Metropolitans 92, based in the Paris suburb of Boulo…

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The widening life expectancy gap between France's rich and poor Men with the lowest standard of living in France have an average life expectancy of 72 years, compared with 85 years for those in the wealthiest category, while women in the lowest income group have…

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From jihadists to state terrorism, the threats to France's Jewish population While investigations continue into the Bondi Beach shootings in Australia last Sunday, in which 15 people attending a Jewish religious celebration were killed, the massacre increasingly appears link…

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