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La Voie Bleue: European Cycle Route of the Year is in France
700km bike path linking Luxembourg and Lyon has been crowned winner of the 2026 title
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Before and after: Garonne river floods in south-west France
Satellite images show extent of flooding from back-to-back storms in February
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Home insurance increases expected in France after floods
Compensation costs for the recent storms and flooding across the west and south-west is estimated to be in the billions of euros
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.
