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France tops table for ordering most non-EU citizens to leave country

6 days ago | thelocal.fr | Claudia Delpero |Europe Street

In total, 453,920 people were ordered to leave an EU country in 2024, a 4 per cent increase compared to the 435,685 in 2023, an analysis of Eurostat data for The Local shows. The figure was 124,935 in the last three months of the year, an increase by 16 per cent compared to the same period in 2023.
OPINION: 'Make the French work harder' - good luck convincing them

1 week ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

French PM François Bayrou is many things but he is not a populist. He believes in trusting the people, not lying to them. Populists tell the people that all their woes come from “cheating foreigners” (Donald Trump), “immigrants” (Marine Le Pen), “Europe” (Nigel Farage), “the rich” (Jean-Luc Mélenchon), “the elites” (all of the above). Bayrou told the French people this week that their problems came from…themselves.
OPINION: The race to defeat the French far right in 2027 starts now

2 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

Emmanuel Macron will have served two five-year terms, which is all that the constitution allows. Marine Le Pen will be banned as a convicted embezzler of public money, unless she at least partially wins her appeal next year. So who will be the next President of the Republic? Jordan Bardella, Marine Le Pen’s glib sidekick, will be only 32 years old. Even Le Pen suggested publicly the other day that her protégé was “not ready”.
Inside France: Le Pen, le fraud and the big French cheese film

2 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.
Saint Pierre et Miquelon: Why does France have two islands off the Canadian coast?

3 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | Emma Pearson

Among the countries hardest hit by new US tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday are unusual ones - the small African nation of Lesotho and the French autonomous territory of Saint Pierre et Miquelon, which both now have a 50 percent tariff placed on all exports to the US. It's not quite as funny as the tariff placed on the Heard and McDonald islands - inhabited exclusively by penguins - but it's still an unusual choice.
OPINION: Marine Le Pen is a martyr to nothing but her own greed and arrogance

3 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

The Paris criminal court has given her the chance to live her dream. For the time being, she appears reluctant to do so. She continues to breed lies instead. Her five-year ban from electoral politics is everyone’s fault but hers, she says. “The system” is trying to destroy the saviour of the people. Meddling judges have used a “nuclear bomb” against democracy. The voices of 10,000,000 people have been silenced.
Flight cancellations: What's going on with Toulouse airport?

3 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | Emma Pearson

When budget airline easyJet initially announced the closure of its Toulouse-Blagnac 'hub', scheduled for spring 2025, it insisted that this was just an organisational change that would not affect destinations to and from the southern French destinations. However, since then there have been repeated announcements of closures of flight routes on both domestic and international lines.
OPINION: Le Pen's future hangs in the balance, and France is heading for a messy constitutional row

4 weeks ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

They may. They probably won’t. Delayed judgement is due in the trial of Le Pen and other Far Right politicians and hangers-on for the embezzlement of millions of Euros from the European Parliament. If found guilty, Le Pen could be banned from seeking political office for five years. That part of her sentence may apply even if she appeals. Le Pen’s political career would, in effect, be over - or at least frozen until 2030. Note the repeated use of the word “may”.
Eurostar lays on extra London-Paris services due to Heathrow chaos

1 month ago | thelocal.fr | Emma Pearson

On Friday, Eurostar announced two extra services to try to accommodate passengers stranded after Heathrow airport was forced to suspend all flights due to a fire in an electricity substation. Eurostar will run an extra London-Paris service, departing at 3pm, and an extra Paris-London service, departing at 8pm. This is in addition to their regular scheduled routes between the French and UK capitals on Friday. The extra services were announced as being "due to the Heathrow incident".
OPINION: In the shadow of Putin, France cannot afford to indulge in another pension drama

1 month ago | thelocal.fr | John Lichfield

Two years ago this week President Emmanuel Macron used his special, constitutional powers to increase the French retirement age from 62 to 64. The issue, never truly buried, may be about to reappear zombie-like to create a French domestic crisis on top of a European and international security crisis.