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EES: Why am I fingerprinted every time at Nice airport?
Phase-in period is continuing and technical improvements are still awaited
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Photos: exceptional storm floods Antibes streets
Three weeks’ worth of rain fell in just a few hours
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French senate to debate introduction of banned farm pesticides
The pesticides are part of the controversial neonicotinoids family
France’s best bathing beaches named
390 French beaches representing 173 communes – three more than last year – have been awarded the Pavillon Bleu 2017 flag for clean water and other environmental criteria.
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur is the best represented region with 58 beaches, followed by Occitanie with 53. Communes pay a fee for their beaches to be assessed, on a sliding scale based on population.
