A couple of quirks of the French property-buying system means that you should expect significant extra costs, on top of the ...

France in 2026 brings municipal elections (and maybe more), a consequential legal ruling for Marine Le Pen, new flights, ...

One of Paris' major train stations is being evacuated after police opened fire on a man with a knife. Passengers are being ...

A gunman on a motorbike has shot dead the 20-year-old youngest brother of a prominent anti-drug activist in the southern ...

As French politics continues to lurch from crisis to crisis, obscure articles of the constitution are becoming part of the ...

A cross-Channel ferry operator has presented its apologies after accidentally screening a pornographic film to passengers on ...

President Emmanuel Macron pledged that France would do everything to avoid a repeat of the jihadist attacks in Paris 10 years ...

From where French property prices are dropping and what to know before moving to rural France to picking a subtitled (not ...

French MPs want to impose an extra flat tax on fast food outlets - doubled if the restaurant is located near a school - in an attempt to fight to proliferation of fast food in French towns and cities.

As French politicians continue to debate the 2026 Budget, The Local looks at who would be affected by a proposal for a health ...

After a short break, the Talking France podcast is back to unpick the latest from the French parliament, examine the proposal ...

As the bitter, complicated and fractious debates over the Budget continue in the French parliament, John Lichfield does some ...