RFI    France is to become the first EU country to stop vegetarian plant based protein foods from describing themselves as steak or sausage in a bid to counter increasingly popular meat alternatives

RFI    On July France passed the baton of the EU presidency to the Czech Republic The rotating presidency involves setting the European Union s agenda for a period of six months with all EU member states holding that position once every thirteen and a half years

RFI    Several French airports including Charles de Gaulle and Orly near Paris are being hit by fresh strikes as the peak tourist season gets underway with one in five flights cancelled this weekend

Paul Myers    French police were on Thursday holding people suspected of involvement in the November drowning of migrants in the English Channel

Sarah Elzas    Reflecting on the end of the trial of those involved in the Paris attacks developing quidditch in France where some are wary of a sport involving a broom between the legs And the day that Haiti was forced to pay its former slave masters for its independence

RFI    Far left France Unbowed LFI MP Eric Coquerel was on Thursday elected to the key post of president of the National Assembly s influential Finance Committee

RFI    Under pressure from the French government to do more to help consumers tackle higher energy costs TotalEnergies has announced discounts on pump prices at French motorway petrol stations The move comes as inflation hit a record high over the month of June

Michael Fitzpatrick    A French appeals court on Wednesday turned down Italy s request to extradite former members of a left wing Italian extremist group wanted for their involvement in violence decades ago

Michael Fitzpatrick    After nearly months of hearings and three days of deliberations the five judges at the special criminal court on Wednesday delivered their verdicts on the Paris attacks accused finding all but one of them guilty of terrorist offences The court handed down some of the harshest penalties

RFI    Prosecutors have announced the opening of a formal investigation into French cabinet minister Damien Abad after a woman accused him of attempted rape at a party in

RFI    The mercury is set to climb again in France two weeks after a heatwave that caused record breaking early summer temperatures across the country

Michael Fitzpatrick with RFI    The sole surviving member of an Islamic State terror cell that killed people in Paris in November was handed a whole life sentence by a French court on Wednesday the toughest punishment possible

Ollia Horton with RFI    A Belgian company has been selected to redesign the forecourt and gardens around Notre Dame cathedral in Paris Among the possible changes is an increase in foliage of over percent and the creation of a new underground reception area opening out to the Seine river

RFI    Faced with a resurgence of Covid infections French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has joined calls for masks to be worn on public transport and in other high risk places Almost cases were recorded in the hours to Tuesday as Omicron sub variants gain ground

David Roe with RFI    France s lower house of parliament on Tuesday agreed to pick an MP from President Emmanuel Macron s centrist coalition as the first woman speaker despite the ruling alliance losing its majority in legislative elections