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‘Child-friendly’ stickers for cafés to launch in France
Red stickers will promote spaces that welcome children in face of growing – and controversial – ‘no-kid’ movement
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Big drop in telephone fees but rises for food and services: France’s June 2025 inflation stats
Year-on-year inflation picks up to reach 1% in France
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Macron pledges billions in extra defence funding for French army
By 2027 the sum given to the military will have doubled from 2017, but the president did not lay out where extra funds will come from
CGT union loses out to CFDT in elections
For the first time, the CFDT union is France’s No1 union in private industry, ahead of the CGT, in placings based on workplace elections.
The CFDT, which is seen as reformist and social-democrat, took 26.4% of votes and the CGT 24.9% of the 5.6million who voted.