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The Local aims to provide you with all the important news and information about France. Whether you are a foreign resident, a regular traveler, have family living in France, or are considering relocating there, our mission is to meet your needs.

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  • 1 week ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

    We seem to be going through a period of “peak France”. Farmers with €200,000 tractors besieged the National Assembly this week; taxis blocked roads all over France. A pro-farmer law, scrapping some environmental rules, was rejected by the Assembly on Monday. So the farmers were furious? No, they were delighted and took their tractors home. Taxi unions won concessions from the government at the weekend. So the taxi-drivers were delighted? No, they were furious. The blockades continue.

  • 2 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

    The French centre-right changes leaders as frequently as it changes names. According to Les Républicains, or whatever the movement is fleetingly called, each new beginning promises the resurrection of “Gaullism” as France’s dominant political force. The latest Messiah of the centre-right is Bruno Retailleau, 64, who started in politics as an anti-Gaullist and an extreme anti-European nationalist.

  • 3 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | Emma Pearson

    Inside France is our weekly look at some of the news, talking points and gossip in France that you might not have heard about. It’s published each Saturday and members can receive it directly to their inbox, by going to their newsletter preferences or adding their email to the sign-up box in this article.

  • 3 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | Ben McPartland

    Our job at The Local is to explain French news and the complexities of life in France to readers. Our members and readers are mostly foreign nationals living in the country, second home owners or people living all around the world who happen to have a particular interest in France. They may be regular visitors or plan on moving to the country one day.

  • 3 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

    France's most popular TV channel postponed one of its most popular programmes on Tuesday night to give three hours of air-time to an unpopular President. Viewers were supposed to watch Koh-Lanta, in which competitors seek to become the last survivor on a desert island. Instead they watched Emmanuel Macron struggle to escape the domestic, political isolation forced on him by a disastrous snap election 11 months ago. That election was a failed gamble; so was Tuesday’s marathon TF1 interview.

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