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France set to pass emergency ‘budget law’: is it good or bad for your finances?
The country will effectively be without a budget from 2025, with knock-on effects for individuals and companies
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EasyJet announces nine new flight routes from France including to UK
A service from Bordeaux to Birmingham is among the new announcements
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French weekend weather outlook December 14 - 15: gloomy and chilly in the north
Cloudy skies are expected to dominate in the north, but in the south temperatures will still reach double figures
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- Out and about: Visit France's best arboretums + where to find forest art
- Opinion: Why I took my child out of public and into private education in France
- Interview: My fight as mayor against another McDonald's in Paris
+ Actor Bill Nighy on running away to France as a teenager - Pension dilemma: cash tomorrow or cash-in today?
- Double-glazing aid cut
- Real Lives: Having heart by-pass surgery in France
- The story of setting up a retirement home for dogs in the Dordogne
- The end of managers: how French working practices are changing
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The woman who has devoted her life work to reuniting families
PRACTICAL / MONEY
- Make sense of... setting up an association/charity in France
- Can I be a micro-entrepreneur if I don't live full-time in France?
- Is there a grant available to help when moving home?
- Are genetically-modified foods allowed in France?
- 17 months on, notaire has not made inheritance declaration
- Do I need to get British qualifications ‘validated’ before Brexit?
- Is it acceptable for me to pick mushrooms in local woods?
- How do we find out what our B&B is worth?
- Bank credited wrong account - did they act illegally?
- Winners and losers in new polluting tax for vehicles
- SNCF train inspectors go undercover
- Plans to change France's controversial Wealth Tax (ISF)
FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS
- CORSICAN CUISINE: warming winter recipes from the Med island
- Rodin:100 after his death, we assess the master sculptor's legacy
- Interiors: how to give your home some French antique style
- Top of the pecking order: a tasty history of Bresse chicken
- Poet and translator Ian Monk on his French literary success
- Comic capers: bande dessinée author Marion Montaigne interview
- GARDENING COLUMN Seasonal notes from a French garden
- Time-travel artist: the painter who remodels discarded old paintings
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