Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi has said that he wants to see the introduction of a French equivalent of the US "Green Card" for immigrants. Speaking on French television this morning, he also said that he wants the deadline for appealing against decisions to leave French territory to be reduced, saying that the length of the period allows people to "vanish into thin air".
A school in the centre of Nice was evacuated today because of a suspected gas leak. A security perimiter was established late this morning in rue Adolphe de Rothschild. Several hundred students were evacuated from L'ecole Rothchild and were taken to the parc Durandy and the Durandy tram stop where they received lunch provided by the town hall. The all-clear was given at about 4pm after firefighters had not found any leak and said that the strong odour was from another source.
Meteo France have a yellow warning for the Alpes-Maritimes for storms and for heavy rain and flooding until 10pm this evening. The same warnings are in force for the Var until midnight tonight. Tomorrow, there are yellow warnings for storms in the Alpes-Maritimes from 10am to 9pm and in the Var from 10am to 10pm. Details of weather warnings are available on www.meteofrance.com
President Macron has announced that the production of certain pharmaceutical drugs will be relocated to France in order to reduce shortages. Speaking on a visit to a laboratory in the Ardeche department today, he said that the government aims to bring the production of fifty drugs to France in order to reduce reliance on imports.
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