Unemployment - The unemployment rate in France has dropped slightly in the second quarter of this year by 0.2%. According to figures published by INSEE the decrease to 8.2% represents 66,000 fewer unemployed. The lowest level reached to date since 2009 was 8.5%. The new figures show a continuing downward trend of 0.6% each year. The report forecasts that the unemployment rate will reach 8.3% by the end of the year.
An appeal against the closure of all bars and restaurants in Marseille for two weeks has been rejected by the Administrative Court this afternoon...
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Maurice Agnelet has been released for medical reasons. The 82-year-old former lawyer was given a 20 year prison sentence in 2014 for the assassination...
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Nearly 300 scientists have denounced the French government’s "disproportionate" measures against Covid-19....
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The French terrorism prosecutor has said that the man alleged to have carried out the knife attack near the former Charlie Hebdo premises in Paris was...
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