Topic: France 🇫🇷

France’s Culture Ministry announced on Monday the architects and landscape designers chosen for the Louvre Museum’s planned €700-800 million revamp in Paris.

France's justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, was in the Algerian capital Algiers on Monday for talks with his counterpart Lotfi Boudjemaa over more cooperation in tackling crime and the possible release of the jailed French journalist Christophe Gleizes.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G7 nations gather on Monday in Paris where they will try and settle differences on everything from the stalemate in Iran, securing supply chains for critical minerals and the oil-price shock. As host, France will try and keep the plates spinning. 

In a quarry between Nantes and Rennes, DJ Maël Péneau once played drum and bass records for three days straight to thousands of "free party" ravers. Thirty years on, a proposed law would put the organisers of events like these behind bars. 

Around 10 "new" suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Paris prosecutor said Sunday.

The head of France's biggest film producer, Canal+, said Sunday that the group would no longer work with 600 industry professionals who signed a petition against right-wing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré.

France’s dozens of regional languages may no longer be spoken by many, but they live on in regional accents, colouring vowel sounds and shaping intonation. More than half the country speaks French with an accent, yet they remain a disadvantage in the upper echelons of power and professional life....

Around 16,500 foreign nationals were held in detention centres across mainland France in 2025, but more than 60 percent were released without being deported, according to a report published on Tuesday.

France has a booming wedding industry and many of its beautiful and historic châteaux - including more than a few owned by foreigners - hire themselves out as the perfect romantic wedding venue. But what's the legal position on getting married in France as a non-resident?

Last year marked the worst ever for cyberattacks in France, with the country recording a huge increase in cyber breaches in everything from holiday booking platforms to government websites - so why is France so vulnerable?

Friday is set to be the hottest and sunniest day of the week in France, with numerous towns predicted to see temperatures of 30C or above, rising to 35C in the south west.

France refused entry to 200 British citizens in 2025, latest EU data shows, with most refused because they either did not have the correct paperwork or had previously over-stayed the 90-day limit.