VIDEO: violent protests against Uber in France
French taxi drivers are blocking access to strategic points in Paris such as airports and train stations in an indefinite strike against Uber Technologies Inc and its UberPop service. Road…
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US not spying on French leadership, Obama tells Hollande
Following new revelations by WikiLeaks that the NSA placed three French presidents under surveillance, US President Barack Obama reassured his French counterpart François Hollande on Wednesday that Washington had stopped…
France mulls age limit of 70 electoral candidates
The French government is considering banning politicians over 70 from standing for office in a bid to inject new blood into the country’s political class – proposals that unsurprisingly have…
French surprise: what former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing said on Russia?
“Relations between Europe and Russia would be better if Brussels was really independent from the U.S.” said former French President (1974-1981) Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. He also justified Russia’s annexation of Crimea because “it…