👤 Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

2026-10-18 · The Guardian · Politics

French government in crisis talks after ‘colossal failure of the state’

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2026-10-06 · The Guardian · Education

On the barricades with wheelie bins and shopping trolleys: Paris students rage at politicians and police

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2026-09-25 · The Guardian · World

Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit

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2026-10-24 · The Guardian · Politics

Hundreds of thousands march across France in protests over schools and policing

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2026-10-23 · The Guardian · World

Macron condemns racism after one killed in terrorist shooting near Paris

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2026-11-02 · The Guardian · Education

French pupils resume school blockades as country braces for more protests

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2026-09-16 · The Guardian

🔮 The court will have to decide what the money was for. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Guardian

🔮 There are now concerns that the building, which has been emptied and closed for renovation, will loom deserted. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Guardian

🔮 A key moment of the three-day visit will be a giant outdoor mass on Saturday, led by the pontiff at Place de la Concorde. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Guardian

🔮 He accused Mediapart of wanting “to kill my political career” and said he would take legal action for defamation. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Guardian

🔮 There has been a certain unease in modern France that it would be better to stop talking about Vichy, to draw a line under it, stop the masochism [of looking back]. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Guardian

🔮 No one knows how long this will go on for.” assertive

2026-10-12 · The Guardian

🔮 He said the 2027 presidential election campaign would be brutal and “like no other we have ever experienced”. assertive

2026-10-18 · The Guardian

🔮 The capital had experienced “a level of violence that we have never seen before, I believe”, said the Socialist deputy mayor, Lamia El Aaraje. assertive

2026-10-23 · The Guardian

🔮 He called for “respect and unity”, saying many French people would be scared and thinking “this could happen to me”. assertive

2026-10-24 · The Guardian

🔮 It’s not police shields that will provide an answer to French people struggling and unable to make ends meet.” assertive

2026-10-25 · The Guardian

🔮 The senate will this week debate the government’s proposed “vandals pay” law. assertive

2026-10-26 · The Guardian

🔮 The government told high school student representatives it would cap some class sizes and review the university application system. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Guardian

🔮 The education minister, Édouard Geffray, said he feared the school year was now “at risk” for many students in their final years who had missed weeks of classes because of the blockades and would be unable to complete coursework or catch up on the curriculum for exams. assertive