The French government has taken steps to minimize food waste, banning large supermarkets from destroying unsold products. They will instead be forced to donate the goods to charities or farms. The National Assembly unanimously voted in favor of the ban on Thursday as part of a larger environmental bill. It explicitly prohibits the practice of intentionally spoiling food so it cannot be eaten. “It’s... 

Robert Chardon reportedly committed to psychiatric ward after Twitter outburst. If this story turns out to be accurate, it appears as though the spirit of “Je Suis Charlie” is very much dead in France. A French Mayor was reportedly committed to a mental institution against his will after he posted ‘Islamophobic’ comments on Twitter. The story began when Robert Chardon, mayor of the southern... 

Leader of France’s National Front party, Marine Le Pen, has launched a month-long blitz against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – a proposed EU-US treaty, which has been criticized for secretiveness and lack of accountability. “It is vital that the French people know about TTIP’s content and its motivations in order to be able to fight it. Because our fellow countrymen... 

Robert Ménard, the mayor of Béziers, said that his administration has looked at the list of the town’s school children and tried to work out how many were non-French Muslims by their names. According to Mayor Ménard, 64.6% of the town’s children are Muslim when their names are taken into account. “Sorry to say this, but the mayor has, class by class, the names of the children,” he said... 

Debate has been sparked in France after around 900 illegal immigrants (mostly men from Africa) boarded an unstable boat which sunk while trying to breach Europe’s borders through Italy. Back when Colonel Gaddafi ruled Libya, he warned that “Europe could turn into Africa“. He advised Europe that “Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European, and even black, as there are millions who want to... 

France has unveiled a multibillion euro cost cutting plan to be executed over two years in order to press down its deficit below the European Union’s cap. The Finance Ministry revealed on Wednesday that the country would be shaving €9 billion (USD 9.60 billion) off costs through the plan. Accordingly, some €4 billion (USD 4.26 billion) will be trimmed from the budget this year, including through... 

Preserved human skulls exhibited at the Genocide memorial in Nyamata, inside a Catholic church where thousands were slaughtered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. France has declassified documents relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A decision to declassify documents concerning Rwanda and the genocide, which claimed at least 800,000 lives, was made on Tuesday, said a source in President Francois... 

France’s National Front party has won a sizeable number of council seats in Sunday’s second round of local elections. Though the party didn’t do as well as was predicted in polls, its leader Marine Le Pen calls the results a “magnificent success.” The National Front is “becoming a powerful political force in numerous regions,” Le Pen tweeted, adding that that the party... 

Geographically one finds France in Europe, but demographically the country is swiftly drifting towards Africa as recent data indicates. France, unlike America, does not hold censuses on ethnicity, but follows instead its ideal of the color-blind republic. This, obviously, does not change one bit the ethnic reality on the ground, but it certainly helps to keep its citizens in the dark about it. Little... 

French firm PIP sparked a global health scare in 2011, when plastic surgeons began reporting an unusual number of ruptures in their products. Breast implants in France will come with a health warning after experts discovered a link with a rare form of cancer. France’s National Cancer Institute said there was a ‘clearly established link’ between a specific type of implant and the disease. Experts... 

Members of the French Communist Party stage a mock protest outside the headquarters of Swiss bank HSBC on the Champs-Elysees avenue, on February 26, 2015 in Paris. Communist protesters held a mock arrest of HSBC’s CEO as anger towards high finance continues to mount in austerity-wracked France. The Swiss arm of HSBC is being investigated in France over leaked files which allege the bank masterminded... 

The leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, believes that resolving the Ukrainian crisis is possible only by giving a neutral status to the country. “The settlement of the Ukrainian crisis is a very complicated question. But I think that it was possible to solve it by giving a neutral status to the country,” Le Pen said, TASS reports. Le Pen stressed out that “Ukraine’s... 

Knife-wielding assailant wounds 3 soldiers guarding Jewish community center in Nice. At least two soldiers guarding a Jewish community center have been wounded by a Muslim knife-wielding attacker in Nice, in southern France, police say. The country has suffered a spate of hate crimes in recent months. The attacker pulled out a 20 cm blade and struck one of the guards on the chin. As two others tried... 

There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents in France following the Islamist attacks in Paris two weeks ago. At 116 confrontations this month, it’s more than double the amount recorded for the whole of January, 2014. The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said over one hundred incidents have been reported to the police since the terrorist attacks of January 7-9. Three French Islamists... 

A view of the airfield at Sheremetyevo International Airport. A full passenger plane was quarantined in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for about 4 hours, after pilots told the ground staff one of the travelers was suffering from suspected Ebola symptoms. “Several minutes before landing we received an alert from the pilots about a passenger, and after being put in quarantine, she was looked at by...