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Many Britons have written to French lawmakers over difficulties after Brexit

Lawmakers want to ease red tape for six-month stays by non-EU nationals

The French government has ruled out organising a referendum on a new statute for New Caledonia next year.

Earlier this month, the French government dropped all COVID entry requirements that had been in place for more than a year.

The French senate on Wednesday will debate and vote on a revised bill that will officially end exceptional measures put in place during the Covid pandemic on 1 August, including an end to the possibility…

The Law Commission of the French Senate has announced that a fact-finding mission will travel to New Caledonia, a French colony in the South Pacific, to investigate the future institutional role of the…

The news media calls the French president “Jupiter,” the king of the gods, but he is showing a more human face. Will it soften his image?

Le Sénat s’est toutefois opposé à la généralisation des cours criminelles départementales, dans la nuit du mercredi 29 au jeudi 30 septembre.

The vote means that there is now a legal basis on which the government can announce deconfinement measures, and gradually end the state of health emergency without losing its powers to reconfine or restrict freedoms if the health situation so requires.  The state of health emergency will now end on September 30, not on October 30 as the government had initially wanted. In their amendments to the text, both MPs and Senators limited the government’s ability to resort to extra curfews and lockd...