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Ski resort in French Alps to close due to lack of snow and funding cuts
Local officials have announced the closure of the Alpe du Grand Serre station in Isère, halting plans to keep it open year-round
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Good news for Occitanie residents as ‘in demand’ flight route to run all year
Domestic flight will connect Perpignan and Lille twice per week
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French weekend weather forecast June 28 - 29: ‘historic’ heatwave begins in south
Temperatures close to 40C are expected as 13 departments set for heightened heatwave alerts on Saturday
Online delay hits 100,000 cartes grises
New system causes issues
A new internet system meant to speed up car registration for a carte grise has led to a backlog of 100,000 applications and dealers unable to deliver cars.
Registration has been online- only since November but bugs caused problems with non-French cars: dealers at one point had 400 cars stuck for more than a fortnight and 22,000 files to be dealt with.
At a meeting with the Interior Ministry the CNPA trade federation said dealers were under heavy financial pressure as failure to get cars to customers meant they could not get paid.
New bonus-malus emissions rules coming in from January 1 also meant pressure to get cars registered and delivered as pollution penalties were payable on registration and not order date.
Some owners were also having difficulty registering cars in the time period allowed by law.
The ministry said problems were being resolved but a CNPA spokesman said: “We do not see any sign of our backlog clearing – and it is not clear what is being done for private owners.”
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