Barack Obama was in Amsterdam on Friday to talk about leadership, not about Donald Trump or current political issues. Yet the former American president could not resist to refer to his successor in the White House in a devious way.
A 30-year-old Frenchman spins three months because he has given a woman (21) a slap on her buttocks. France has recently passed a law that criminalises such sexual behavior. This is the first conviction based on that new law. The man also got a fine of 300 euros because he was skeptical commented on her breasts.
Paris is looking for a 'European solution' for a ship sailing along the coast of Libya with 58 migrants picked up, the Aquarius. French media reported that employees of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, at the request of the aid organizations SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders, look at where the boat can go and where then the migrants go.
The French government wants to introduce a special toll for trucks that cross the country. The French Minister for the Environment François de Rugy said this Monday. The government is thinking of a sticker or vignette. Next year the government will come up with a detailed plan.
French President Emmanuel Macron is losing support from his compatriots. In a public opinion poll of the Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, only 29 percent of those surveyed said that they were satisfied with Macron.
The Bataclan Parisian concert hall, which was the target of an Islamic attack almost three years ago, has canceled two controversial concerts by rapper Médine. 'Out of respect for the victims of the attacks of 13 November 2015 and their families, Médine and the Bataclan decided to move the performances to another location in the French capital', the music club announced Friday.
The party leader of the French populist party Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, refuses to be psychologically investigated as ordered by a judge.
The French police have seized 20,000 kilos of miniature Eiffel towers. With the action, the authorities want to blow the large amount of illegal sellers around the top attraction in Paris.
The French filmmaker and writer Marceline Loridan-Ivens died on Tuesday at the age of ninety. Her second husband was the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989). The death of Loridan is according to French media published by Jean Veil, the son of her best friend, the now deceased former minister Simone Veil.
The European Union must do everything in its power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the union without agreement on the new relationship. This is what stressed Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on his visit to Paris with President Emmanuel Macron on Monday. Austria is currently EU President.
French catering entrepreneurs want the government to speed up asylum procedures and make it easier for them to find suitable staff among migrants. They have thousands of jobs on offer for which French employees are increasingly turning up their heads.
Discussions between French and British fishermen about the fishing rights for scallops did not work out. That is what the French Minister of Agriculture and Food, Stéphane Travert, said. He warned of new conditions at sea now that the scallop war is likely to continue.
The French government expressly expressed support to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is a reaction to the threatening language of the American national security adviser John Bolton. He has already declared the court dead.
The suspect of the stabbing in Paris was not under the influence of drugs. This is shown by toxicological research, say sources about justice. Witnesses had indicated that the man made a drugged impression.
Belgians are in great embarrassment now that it appears that a compatriot may be responsible for 110 beheadings in Syria.
A Saudi princess says that she has been robbed of 800,000 euros in jewelery at the chic hotel Ritz in Paris. According to the woman, they were not stored in the safe in her room, says a source within the police.
A man attacked a postman in the center of Paris on Monday and another passerby with scissors. The police ultimately overpowered him with the help of a taser pistol. Nothing has been announced yet about the attacker's motives.
The police arrested a man who put seven people in the center of Paris. According to Le Parisien, the attacker is of age and has the Afghan nationality. Four victims are seriously injured. Among the victims are two Englishmen. The man had a knife and an iron bar.
Tens of thousands of French people have taken to the streets in large cities on Saturday to demand measures against climate change. They gave heart to former Minister of the Environment, Nicolas Hulot, among other things. He recently stepped out of frustration about the failing government policy in this area.
The authorities in Genoa want the remains of the collapsed bridge to be demolished, and that a completely new bridge will be built on the spot. They have asked operator Autostrade to help with this.
The American authorities have again raised alarms about disease symptoms on board international flights. Passengers and crew members on board two aircraft must undergo a medical check, says a Philadelphia International Airport spokesperson. It involves about 250 people.
The French navy is ready to intervene when a new naval battle presents itself in the 'scallop war'. There is a fear that French fishermen will once again attack their British counterparts when they are fishing for scallop shells off the Normandy coast.
US President Donald Trump will not go to Singapore and Papua New Guinea in November for top talks with Asian leaders. In his stead, he sends Vice President Mike Pence. The White House has announced this on Friday.
France and Great Britain are trying to put an end to a high-level conflict over fishing for scallops. Raging fishermen from the countries this week carried out a sea battle off the coast of Normandy.
France has killed a leader of a terrorist group linked to Islamic State in Mali. Another IS member and a woman and a teenager were killed during the operation. The French Minister of Defense has announced this in a statement.
A man killed his mother and sister in Trappes, a suburb of Paris. A third person was seriously injured. The police later killed the alleged perpetrator. According to Minister Gérard Collomb (Home Affairs), it is a 36-year-old man with serious mental health problems.
Certainly one person was killed by an attack with a knife in the French Trappes, close to the capital Paris. At least two other people were seriously injured. A police spokeswoman said the attacker is 'disabled.'
The European Commission intends to significantly increase the official climate targets of the European Union. The EU wants a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Now it is still 40 percent compared to the 1990 figures.
French feminists want a ban on postcards with naked women.
The French judiciary is investigating whether a fire in a flat near Paris that claimed four lives was lit by a ten-year-old child. This has been reported by sources in the justice system Europe 1.
