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Protests in France have continued over Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
20 Oct 2010
French authorities have forced some fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies disrupted by nationwide strikes over pension reform.
20 Oct 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy has staked the credibility of his entire presidency on making the French work an extra two years before they can legally retire.
19 Oct 2010
Britain would lose a £3 billion annual rebate on payments to Brussels and faces new European taxes under proposals tabled on Tuesday alongside a Franco-German plan for EU treaty change.
19 Oct 2010
French police faced increasingly violent protests over pension reforms.
19 Oct 2010
The European Union has announced a five-year ban the use of cloned animal meat or milk for food production as well as well as a register for imports of semen and embryos of clones.
19 Oct 2010
The French arm of internet auction site eBay has been accused of banning same sex couples from taking part in a national competition.
19 Oct 2010
Masked youths clashed with police and set fires in cities across France as protests against a proposed hike in the retirement age took an increasingly radical turn.
19 Oct 2010
The European Commission has temporarily suspended disciplinary action against France over the expulsions of Roma migrants after Paris agreed to amend its immigration laws.
19 Oct 2010
French cities and schools burn as youths join protest over pensions.
19 Oct 2010
Cars have been set alight on the outskirts of Paris as protests over pension reform in France turn violent.
19 Oct 2010
Protesters are due to hit the streets in France en masse in the sixth such demonstration in two months against Nicolas Sarkozy's unpopular pension reforms.
19 Oct 2010
France and Germany launched a joint drive to 'anchor Russia to the West' at a three-way summit on Monday in northern France billed as sealing a new era of co-operation between Moscow and Europe.
18 Oct 2010
The coalition government faces the prospect of a referendum on Europe and the outbreak of political warfare between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel demanded a new EU treaty within two years.
18 Oct 2010
French riot police and students fired tear gas and petrol bombs at each other as more than a thousand petrol stations ran dry.
18 Oct 2010
Hundreds of flights to and from France will be cancelled on Tuesday as airlines are told to carry enough fuel for their return journeys.
18 Oct 2010
Truckers join oil workers and students in protest against pension reforms.
18 Oct 2010
There have been more violent protests over controversial pension reform plans.
18 Oct 2010
France's interior minister has become the latest prominent politician to make an embarrassing Freudian slip by extolling the virtues of "genital fingerprinting" to identify criminals instead of the more traditional genetic means of using the thumb.
18 Oct 2010
Riot police arrested at least 30 people in Paris as anti-government protesters attacked banks ahead of more industrial action.
18 Oct 2010
Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new terror threat from al-Qaeda against Europe, particularly in France, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said yesterday.
17 Oct 2010
A French researcher has unearthed evidence suggesting two French pilots beat America's Charles Lindbergh in his historic 1927 flight across the Atlantic only to vanish, perhaps shot down by Al Capone's bootleg mafia.
17 Oct 2010
Pilots told to refuel abroad and pension reform stand-off reaches crunch point amid fears that pumps could run dry within days.
17 Oct 2010
As rolling strikes threaten to cripple France, rising numbers question the militant legacy of the Soixante Huitards, reports Kim Willsher in Paris
17 Oct 2010
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