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These medical consultations now cost more in France
The ‘participation forfaitaire’ fee has doubled, but it does not apply to all consultations
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240,000 Citroën cars recalled in France over airbag fault
The fault concerns the C3 and DS3 models specifically
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Firefighters’ strike over work rules is 'unprecedented’ in France
Nine unions unite over protest action for first time
Bathtub posters call for whales to go back in sea
Rights groups have launched poster campaigns across the country to stop aquarium attractions using whales and dolphins.
The C’est Assez protests, on Paris Métro and buses in Nantes and Nice, show a dolphin and a whale in a bathtub.
They target dolphinariums in Port-Saint-Père near Nantes and Antibes near Nice demanding the mammals be freed and that reproduction in captivity be banned.
The ecology ministry started a rethink on zoos, circuses, mink farms and dolphinariums last year. Rights groups want the mammals released back into the sea in special sanctuaries.
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