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English-speaking community in southern France helps neighbours impacted by wildfires
Residents in the Pyrénées-Orientales lost their homes, pets, and personal belongings
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Graphic: what is included in France’s 2027 budget
Several major changes to pensions, taxes, and spending as government seeks to reduce debt
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Protests at a third of lycées in France, blockades now at ten universities
More than 2,500 arrests have been made and hundreds injured
MPs try again to ban smacking children
A law which would make France the 55th country in the world, and the 23rd in the EU, to legally ban the smacking of children was due to be debated by MPs at the end of November.
The latest anti-smacking proposal comes nearly two years after France’s Constitutional Council struck down the last attempt to outlaw physical punishment against children on technical grounds.
