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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
Progress on Brexit court action
French avocat Julien Fouchet, who is taking court action over the Brexit referendum, says his case has passed a first hurdle – it was not thrown out after initial consideration by the General Court of the EU which happens if cases are deemed clearly unacceptable.

The Council of the EU has until mid-October to reply to his claim that the vote was illegal because long-term expats were excluded.