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Key points to take away from the local elections in France
France is splitting in a similar way to the United States and the UK
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Find out who has been elected as mayor in your French commune
Majority of rural candidates ran without official party support
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Book flights now or face price rises if Middle East conflict continues, says easyJet boss
Price increases to start ‘in three weeks’ unless situation calms
State of emergency is extended again
France's state of emergency’ which has been in place since the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015, has been extended for a fifth time, up to July 15, taking the period up to 20 months in total.
This will be the longest since the creation of the measure in the 1950s, linked to the Algerian War. The justification for the extension was to cover the period of the presidential elections, which are judged to have heightened risk of terrorist attack.
This comes as the ‘Vigipirate’ anti-terrorist plan was reclassified into three levels, including a new ‘urgence attentat’ one, which is currently in place in Ile-de-France, a maximum level for when an attack is imminent or one has just happened.
