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  • Saturday, 17 April, 2021
    FT MagazineJancis Robinson
    April frosts are a bitter blow to Europe’s vineyards

    Sub-zero temperatures across Europe have ruined winemakers’ hopes for the 2021 vintage

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    News in-depthVeolia Environnement VE SA
    Antoine Frérot, the victor in Veolia’s bitter battle for Suez

    CEO says he was ‘rational like Machiavelli’ in takeover fight with arch-rival that divided Paris

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    Energy Source
    Paris agreement spells ‘terminal decline’ for oil prices Premium

    Plus: shale’s new ESG ‘religion’ and new monthly oil market data

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    The Big Read
    Iran: nuclear talks intensify domestic power struggle

    Having survived Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’, hardliners seek to ram home their political advantage over reformist rivals

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    It took an énarque to abolish Ena

    France must adapt its public administration to the times

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    News in-depthFrench presidential election
    France’s race for centre-right presidential nomination heats up

    Les Républicains seek candidate capable of taking on Macron and Le Pen

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    LexAir France-KLM
    Air France-KLM: come fly the Balkanised skies Premium

    The political pressure created by financial strain will continue

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    The EU’s stability will again confound its critics

    Despite Covid, the European Union is in better shape politically than the US or UK

  • Sunday, 11 April, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Europe steps up vaccination campaigns after slow start

    France, Germany and Italy accelerate rollout as continent grapples with third wave

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Late frost to wreak havoc on French wine production

    Farm ‘calamity’ to be declared as some vine and fruit-tree crops are set to fall by up to 90%

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    France to offer mRNA jabs as second dose after AstraZeneca 

    Mixed-dose strategy comes after rare blood clot cases linked to AstraZeneca vaccine

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    French politics
    Macron to close training school of French elite

    Move to replace Ena aims to boost reformist credentials ahead of elections

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A step forward on global corporation tax reform

    US proposal to break deadlock should be embraced by Europe

  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    France doesn’t trust its leaders. What does that mean in a pandemic?

    ‘In late January, Macron’s scientific advisers recommended another lockdown. But he didn’t dare upset people’

  • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
    Inside BusinessDavid Keohane
    HSBC’s painful retreat from France

    Private equity firm Cerberus set to swoop on lender’s ‘fallen angel’ retail network

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    Air France-KLM
    French state to inject up to €4bn into Air France-KLM

    Government shareholding in the airline could rise to 29.9%

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    Cyber Security
    Pandemic brought surge in French cyber attacks, warns Thales CEO

    Corporate hackings rise fourfold, driven in part by staff working from home on less secure computers

  • Monday, 5 April, 2021
    The Big Read
    French politics: Macron faces test of character as Le Pen’s popularity grows

    With presidential elections next year, a far-right victory in the EU’s second-biggest economy would have huge consequences

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    Extremists on both sides are exploiting the Batley school row

    Respect for religious beliefs must come with protection for free speech and a balanced education

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    FT Swamp Notes
    Marine Le Pen and whack-a-mole populism Premium

    We cannot dismiss the far-right threat as over

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Life & Arts
    France’s #MeToo moment

    Two memoirs of childhood abuse have sparked a reckoning among the country’s elite

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Laurence Freeman
    A year of Covid lessons from a monk’s cloistered cell

    As we celebrate Easter and Passover, the dark night of the pandemic has been a stern teacher to us all

  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Macron extends lockdown across France to combat Covid surge

    President orders school closures to limit infections from third wave of pandemic

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Mali
    French air strike in Mali killed civilians, UN concludes

    Report directly contradicts Paris claim that all dead in January 3 attack were jihadis

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA
    Bertelsmann aims for new national TV champion in France

    Chief executive is examining options for the group’s stake in French broadcaster M6

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