Update on strike action affecting petrol supplies - While the French government has threatened this morning to intervene to unblock strike action by oil refineries and depots, unions of ExxonMobil have announced this morning that the movement has been renewed “due to the company not meeting the demands of the striking employees who are asking for purchasing power”. Central CGT union representative Christophe Aubert, told French media that the “management's proposal is essentially a bonus and not a salary increase”.
The French government has suspended a planned rise in property tax until next spring, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told the Senate on Wednesday. T...
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A homeless man accused of firing a shot which seriously injured another homeless person in Nice has appeared in court. The man in his fifties claimed ...
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A man has died after being struck by a train in the Var. Witnesses described seeing the man use his mobile phone whilst crossing the tracks at Puget-V...
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Several people have been taken into custody after a shooting in the centre of Nice yesterday. The victim was shot in the head on rue de la Buffa ...
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The French government has announced a prohibition on mobile phone use in six prisons
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