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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
Regional names allowed in France
Regional languages such as Breton and Corse are nearer to being better supported after MPs backed a law giving protection and allowing diacritic symbols to be used in forenames.
Symbols caused problems when a baby was given the Breton name Fañch as the tilde was not legal.
A top appeal court then allowed it.
The bill now goes to the Senate but it has dropped key provisions for language learning.
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