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Grey speed camera in France beside busy road with traffic passing - shows that camera only flashes from rear

Court rules on radar 'finger' case

Prosecutors had called for driver who made gesture to face prison term

Bakeries urged to offer pain-suspendu

JULIENDavid / Pixabay / CC0 Creative Commons

Association in Nice calls on bakers to offer scheme similar to the well-known café suspendu

Metro station renamed in honour of Simone Veil

The Europe station to be renamed in honour of politician who survived Nazi concentration camps and who later played a key role in legalising abortion in France

New red-tape for Britons visiting France after Brexit

British people wanting to visit France from 2021 may have to apply online for permission and pay a €7 fee after the EU’s new visa-waiver scheme was approved.

Pollen levels break records in Paris

Réseau national de surveillance aérobiologique

It is early in the season, but a large section of the country is already on red alert for pollen levels

May edition out this week

Connexion subscribers will receive their copies over the next few days

Radio Londres kept us going in the war

The last surviving presenter of Radio Londres, the Free French BBC station during the Second World War, has died and Oliver Rowland speaks to a surviving Resistance fighter on the support broadcasts gave

Carte grise lag continues

New online registration system causing delays

Parent group backs obligatory schooling from age 3

Schooling is to become obligatory from the age of three in France from September 2019 – a move welcomed by the main school parent federation.

Royal visit to France

A 3-day commemorative visit this May

Apply now for cartes, ministry tells UK expats

Interior Ministry officials have again stressed the importance of Britons in France obtaining a carte de séjour (and, if possible, the séjour permanent type) so as to ‘get into the system’ before Brexit.

A form of European civil war reappearing, says Macron

President Macron called for a European ‘Renaissance’ when he gave his first major speech to the European parliament in a three-hour debate in Strasbourg.

Campaign aims to find out views of French on EU

A nationwide campaign is under way to find out what the French think of the EU

Plan for libraries to open for longer

Culture minister calling for more flexibility

Linky meter fitting ‘should be halted’

Possible legal action to halt the rollout

No handshake, no citizenship

Refusing to shake the hand of a male prefecture official cost a woman her right to citizenship as she had not “assimilated French republican values”.

Brexit updates - May 2018

The latest news

State mistake ruined lives of 2,015 ‘stolen’ children

Children taken from La Reunion island get an apology

Netflix and Now TV go open in EU but not BBC

EU regulation removes restriction

Doggy bags are just ‘not French,’ says hotel union

Cutting down on waste plan to be debated

Rillettes give ice cream tang

Novelty flavour

High-speed in-flight wifi takes to the air

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