French news

First tests of medicinal cannabis should start early next year for 3,000 patients with illnesses such as epilepsy, neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis and chemotherapy side-effects, plus those on palliative care.

Doctors in France are calling for face masks to be “mandatory” in closed-in public areas, to avoid the coronavirus epidemic from restarting and continuing to spread.

Fast blood tests to check for coronavirus antibodies are now available without prescription from pharmacies in France - but health authorities have said that people should still consult a doctor when interpreting results.

The new French interior minister has promised new “measures for all drivers across France” after visiting the family of a Bayonne bus driver who was beaten to death in an attack over face masks last week.

French tourism operators deny that Britons are not welcome as travel corridor opens up - despite a poll this week claiming that most French people (55%) would rather they stayed away.

Advertisers need to re-imagine their sector as a force for environmental change, according to a proposed new law in France, with suggested measures giving local politicians more power to control advertising, and a ban on the promotion of “toxic” products.

Midnight tonight (from Friday July 10 to Saturday July 11) marks the end of France’s state of health emergency imposed due to the Covid-19 crisis, with some changes taking place as a result. We explain.

A species of hamster native to Alsace is now in “critical danger” of extinction, with only around 1,500 left today compared to hundreds of thousands in the 1970s, conservationists have warned.

The President’s wife spoke about her life alongside the French head of state, how she fulfils her role, and the capacity in which she influences her husband, Emmanuel Macron.

Wales and Northern Ireland have both confirmed today they are opening a coronavirus quarantine ‘travel corridor’ with France tomorrow.

Results from recent tests show a resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - in water in the French capital at minimal levels, as the government considers how to control a possible second wave of the virus in France.

France may soon ban the sale of nitrous oxide capsules - known as “laughing gas” - to minors, as national health body Anses launches a study into the chemical’s increased use and possible neurological side effects.

HSBC France has announced hundreds of job cuts in Paris – but it has clarified to The Connexion that the impact is only on its investment banking side, not retail banking for the public and businesses.

The wife of a bus driver who was left brain dead after an attack in Bayonne, southwest France, has said she “did not expect to receive such support” and will “fight for justice”, as a march took place in the city yesterday.

Electric shocks and other treatment to try to “convert” young homosexuals will be banned if MPs back a new law being put to parliament.

Barrier gestures that prevent the spread of Covid-19 are being “abandoned” in France, according to Professor Jean François Delfraissy, head of the government’s scientific advisory body Le Conseil Scientifique.