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How Google and Apple outflanked governments in the race to build coronavirus...
In the digital fight against COVID-19, Big Tech squared off against governments — and won. As policymakers around Europe pushed to develop smartphone apps to track the spread of the coronavirus, Apple...
View ArticleFrance sets date for second round of local elections
PARIS — France will hold the second round of local elections on June 28, coronavirus permitting, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Friday. While there is “no consensus” among political parties on...
View ArticleFrance to ban chokehold arrests in drive to tackle police violence and racism
France will ban police from using chokeholds to carry out arrests and take a harder line on racism in police ranks, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said. Castaner’s decision follows outrage in...
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Macron under pressure over police violence and race
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is under increasing pressure to address policing and race issues that have been crystallized in a series of protests and counterprotests in recent days. On...
View ArticleChokehold arrests to continue in France for now: reports
PARIS — French police will still be allowed to use chokeholds to carry out arrests until alternative methods are put in place in September, according to media reports. An internal note by the...
View ArticleEx-minister Castaner to lead Macron’s party in French parliament
PARIS — Christophe Castaner, an early ally of Emmanuel Macron, won a vote Thursday to become the new leader of the French president’s party in parliament, as the group struggles to reconcile internal...
View ArticleFrench government plan to rewrite security bill has MPs up in arms
The French government is walking on eggshells, wearing combat boots. The debate on a hotly contested security bill that would, among other measures, curtail the filming of police forces, on Friday...
View ArticleMacron’s MPs backtrack on controversial security bill
PARIS — After a week of drama and large demonstrations against a security bill that would ban sharing photographs of police officers “with the manifest aim to harm,” the French government announced...
View ArticleMacron ally blames Barnier for Brexit deal ‘imprecisions’ amid fishing row
The lengthy kerfuffle over fishing permits between the U.K. and France found its way into the French presidential campaign on Friday, with President Emmanuel Macron’s top man in parliament pointing a...
View ArticleNovak Djokovic could be barred from French Open
First Australia, now France? Tennis star Novak Djokovic could be barred from playing at the French Open after lawmakers backed a law requiring anyone wanting to enter sports arenas and other public...
View ArticleChristophe Castaner officiellement nommé à la tête du tunnel du Mont Blanc
L’ancien ministre de l’Intérieur Christophe Castaner a été nommé vendredi 18 novembre président du conseil d’administration du tunnel du Mont Blanc, d’après un décret paru au Journal officiel et...
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