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France set to pass emergency ‘budget law’: is it good or bad for your finances?
The country will effectively be without a budget from 2025, with knock-on effects for individuals and companies
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EasyJet announces nine new flight routes from France including to UK
A service from Bordeaux to Birmingham is among the new announcements
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French weekend weather outlook December 14 - 15: gloomy and chilly in the north
Cloudy skies are expected to dominate in the north, but in the south temperatures will still reach double figures
Bumper November edition preview
Our November print edition is a bumper 72 pages and there is still time to subscribe
Our November print edition is a bumper 72 pages. There is still time to subscribe if you would like to start with this edition – the deadline is tomorrow evening, Saturday October 10.
Subscribing offers a 23% saving on buying us at newsagents for subcriptions to French addresses.
Highlights of November include:
- Four-page special of property news for home-owners and buyers
- Lawyers report social charge refunds arriving
- What doctors’ strike is really about
- Plans for France’s first Alzheimer’s village and call for English-speakers to help carers and sufferers throughout France
- Seed secret of farmer’s tomatoes which need minimal water
- We go on a tour of Paris architecture
- Lorry driver tells his side of Calais runs
- Why we left France and came back!
- Teachers and parents support multi-age primary school classes
- How to adopt a guide dog puppy
- Problems with foreign Assurance Vies
- Savvy skiing – tips for fun, low-cost skiing
- The programme to reintroduce vultures
- Andorra: What’s it like to live there
- Chickens fed Breton seaweed extract do not need antibiotics
- Reader stories: Our kids are growing up with a different culture to us
Reader questions answered in the edition include:
- Should I be taxed on school fees my employer pays for us?
- In view of recent social charge ruling can we refuse to pay these if selling our second home now?
- My car hit a boar, how does this work with insurance?
- How do we get EHIC refund from CPAM?
- Smoke alarms and checks
- French and UK spoon sizes for recipes
- Radio 4 interference
- Can we make a will jointly as a couple under new EU regulation?
- Who is responsible for children’s illegal film downloads?
- How mortgage brokers work
- Satellite for slow broadband – can I suspend it while not at the home?
- Best deals for currency exchange transfers
Subscribe here or call Nathalie on 06 40 61 71 97. Subscription copies will be posted on October 20.