Giorgio Leali
France melts down millions of coins because EU says its stars don’t look right
PARIS — France has destroyed and reminted 27 million coins after failing to ask the EU for design ap...
8 months ago
France continued minting irregular coins despite EU telling it to stop: Report
PARIS — France continued to mint 10, 20 and 50 cent coins in December despite the European Commissio...
8 months ago
Macron vows more liberal reforms to shake France’s economy
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron might be tacking right on social issues; on economics he's going back to his...
8 months ago
Macron flirts with EU-bashing in wink to French farmers
PARIS — As angry French farmers threaten to blockade the roads into Paris, Emmanuel Macron wants to...
8 months ago
France axes tractor fuel hike, cuts red tape to appease angry farmers
PARIS — The French government on Friday promised to cut taxes on agricultural fuel and reduce bureau...
8 months ago
French farmers attack foreign trucks, destroy cargoes, report says
PARIS — French farmers have attacked foreign trucks transporting imported produce in the southern Dr...
8 months ago
Behind the Macron-Lula bromance
BRASÍLIA, Brazil ― France's Emmanuel Macron and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent three days publicly showering each other with mutual presidential affection, framed by the Amazon's golden sunsets and Brasília's white modernist palaces.It was Macro...
6 months ago
Macron bets on investments and fraternité to charm Lula in first visit to Brazil
BELÉM, Brazil — “You can do business without necessarily having trade agreements,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters bombarding him with questions on why he so adamantly opposes an EU trade deal with Brazil and other South American countries...
6 months ago
France could ease trader layoffs to attract more finance companies
PARIS — France wants to make it easier to sack high-level finance employees in an attempt to remain a top destination for financial firms. The changes could be part of a financial attractiveness bill that aims to draw more financial companies to the count...
6 months ago
Paris to everyone: Buy French solar panels, forget all competitors
PARIS ― France wants everyone buying French solar panels — and it's not being subtle. "I call on big decision-makers, energy companies and solar parks developers … to massively resort to 'Made in France' panels," France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire s...
6 months ago
Macron, Le Maire feud flares up amid France’s fiscal woes
PARIS — France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is amping up the volume on the need to tackle the country's deteriorating public finances. But his strident calls for deep public spending cuts are quickly getting on the French president’s nerves as the s...
6 months ago
More cash, less screen time: 5 policy takeaways from Macron’s Sorbonne speech
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron outlined his priorities for the future of the European Union on Thursday in an almost two-hour stump speech with about six weeks to go until the European election in June. The marathon address at Sorbonne Universit...
5 months ago
Nickel, guns and foreign powers: How France’s New Caledonia reached the brink of ‘civil war’
PARIS — Nickel-rich New Caledonia could have been France’s Eldorado. Instead, it has once again turned into a security time bomb. Ongoing violent protests in the French overseas territory in the South Pacific, which have already led to the death of five p...
4 months ago
France needs to cut over €100B so it doesn’t end up like Italy
PARIS — France must cut its public deficit by €112 billion over the next seven to 12 years if it wants to avoid entering a debt spiral like Italy, economists advising the government said on Wednesday.Unlike its southern neighbor, France can still avoid fa...
2 months ago