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The Seine, which played a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics, again takes centre stage in the capital this summer with ...

The due diligence law was meant to bring EU-style protections to global supply chains. Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz helped all but kill it.

Rupert Parker explores this lesser known corner of France Tucked away in the north-eastern corner of France, bordered by Belgium and shaped by centuries of history, the French Ardennes remains one ...

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The US is halting shipments of some promised air defence missiles and weapons to Ukraine due to concerns about its own ...

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Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something ...

Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the ...

Since its inception in 1947, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been the world’s foremost platform for artists to challenge ...

Piero Colla is a historian and sociologist trained in Bologna and holds a doctorate from EHESS. He is a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and a researcher attached to the AGORA laboratory.