Chirac pats rumps to calm rural fearsJacques Chirac contemplated Jardin, the 1,701kg Maine-Anjou bull, with solemnityWed Mar 10 1999 - 00:00
Amnesty calls for investigation into `disappearance' of 3,000 since 1993The human rights group Amnesty International yesterday appealed for a full, impartial and independent investigation into the "…Thu Mar 04 1999 - 00:00
Concorde becomes an endangered speciesScarcely a French cabinet meeting passed in the 1960s without President de Gaulle asking: "What's going on with the Concorde…Wed Mar 03 1999 - 00:00
Prosecution asks court to acquit former ministers in blood trialThe prosecution in France's contaminated blood trial yesterday asked a special court to acquit three former Socialist ministers…Thu Feb 25 1999 - 00:00
Spitting satire brings the real news homeEvery evening at 7.55, four million television viewers across France tune in to Canal Plus to watch Les Guignols de L'Info, a…Wed Feb 24 1999 - 00:00
Peace conference adjourned to provide `time for reflection'The Yugoslav President, Mr Slobodan Milosevic, must have broken out the Dom Perignon last nightWed Feb 24 1999 - 00:00
War looms in Yugoslavia as Milosevic refuses to agree NATO troops dealA NATO war against Yugoslavia appeared more likely last night as the US and French presidents renewed threats of air strikes …Sat Feb 20 1999 - 00:00
Simplistic attitude of talks organiser hampers progressIt was a small incident, but for a European adviser to the Albanian delegation, it summed up the simplistic and arrogant attitude…Thu Feb 18 1999 - 00:00
ECB cool on transparency debateIt is one thing for Europeans to demand democratic accountability in EU institutions; quite another, it seems, to expect Europe…Wed Feb 17 1999 - 00:00
Taoiseach rules out executive without SF presenceThe Taoiseach yesterday excluded the possibility of the Northern Ireland executive being formed without Sinn Fein, but would …Tue Feb 16 1999 - 00:00
Cocks' crests with beer help Bertie `degress' into relaxed Elysee chatsBertie and Jacques drank beer with their Crete de Coq and Rognons de Coq, followed by lamb and chocolate gateauTue Feb 16 1999 - 00:00
After 300 bottles Bordeaux there is little progress to toast at the castleAside from Mrs Madeleine Albright's boast that the two delegations sat in the same room to be lectured by her, there was nothing…Mon Feb 15 1999 - 00:00
Ex-minister vehemently rejects guilt in AIDS trialA frightening image of an arrogant and careless bureaucracy ruled by second-level councillors with no accountability and a heedless…Thu Feb 11 1999 - 00:00
Out of IrelandFrench television audiences will discover tomorrow night the Ireland of happy endings, forever tied to its American Diaspora …Thu Feb 11 1999 - 00:00
Politicians in dock face victims of medical scandalFor the first time since the second World War, three senior French officials went on trial yesterday for decisions they took …Wed Feb 10 1999 - 00:00
Asterix is a question of French national prideYou would have to be deaf and blind not to know that Asterix and Obelix Against Caesar will invade cinemas across France today…Wed Feb 03 1999 - 00:00
Political Lazarus gives `lessons to the entire world'When Jean-Pierre Chevenement regained consciousness after a 55-minute cardiac arrest and three-week coma last autumn, he said…Wed Jan 27 1999 - 00:00
Devastating ambition defining trait of Le Pen's former chief lieutenantIn the run-up to this weekend's breakaway National Front (FN) congress, the leader of western Europe's formerly most powerful…Mon Jan 25 1999 - 00:00
French court jails Muslim activists in `travesty' trialThe biggest "terrorist" trial ever held in France ended yesterday with 40 per cent of the 138 defendants cleared of any connection…Sat Jan 23 1999 - 00:00
Human rights federation censures emergency lawsEmergency "anti-terrorist" legislation enacted during a bombing campaign in France 13 years ago has resulted in arbitrary justice…Fri Jan 22 1999 - 00:00
DNA tests could help to convict Irishman's murdererAfter years of inaction the investigation into the unresolved murder of a young Irishman in northern France has resumed with …Thu Jan 21 1999 - 00:00
Left wing struggles to tackle unemployment in EUWith socialists or social democrats in 13 of 15 European Union governments and 18 million still unemployed within the EU, it …Wed Jan 20 1999 - 00:00
Le Pen court move on rebels failsMr Jean-Marie Le Pen yesterday failed in his attempt to drag French justice into the civil war within his racist, extreme rightwing…Sat Jan 16 1999 - 00:00
FranceThe French franc and the Irish pound may be irrevocably linked at the rate of 8Fri Jan 15 1999 - 00:00
Debate on Islamic veils inflames passionsGursel Kervanci left his native Turkey 20 years ago to work in FranceWed Jan 13 1999 - 00:00
Pinochet case creates precedent for victims of other regimesThe century is ending badly for dictatorsThu Jan 07 1999 - 00:00
French hail potential of euro to end US hegemonyOne brief clip in the television archives recounting the 50-year march to the euro brought roars of laughter from the French …Wed Jan 06 1999 - 00:00
Business turns to pleasure as euro is greetedHundreds of men in dark suits, reeking of Guerlain eau-decologne - the creme de la creme of Paris business and finance - gathered…Tue Jan 05 1999 - 00:00
Single currency's single-minded founding fatherThe father of the euro works in a cramped first-floor office on a noisy street facing the back of the Paris stock exchangeWed Dec 30 1998 - 00:00
Too much champagne, not enough caviarWhen Jean-Luc Barbier uncorks a bottle of millesime champagne on New Year's Eve, the secretary-general of the Comite Interprofessionnel…Wed Dec 30 1998 - 00:00
March in protest at killing of studentHundreds of students and teachers marched across the south-western French city of Toulouse yesterday in protest at the police…Wed Dec 16 1998 - 00:00
Amnesty and Body Shop put their mark on human rightsLedum Mitee spent 18 months in a Nigerian prison with the Ogoni leader and human rights campaigner, Ken Saro Wiwa.Thu Dec 10 1998 - 00:00
Annan declares the UN `conscience of the world'The UN Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, indirectly criticised the US and proclaimed a new role for the UN as "the conscience…Wed Dec 09 1998 - 00:00
Lawyer shames government at human rights ceremoniesThere is something unsettling about the parade of Nobel Prize winners and pious statements celebrating the 50th anniversary of…Wed Dec 09 1998 - 00:00
Closer defence links planned at summitTHE English occupied the Breton seaport of Saint-Malo throughout the Middle Ages, and President Chirac and the French Prime Minister…Fri Dec 04 1998 - 00:00
Irish chase Lyon share of French businessIt is 7.15 at the Gare de Lyon on a dark and frozen Paris morningFri Dec 04 1998 - 00:00
Cultural insights at `SciencesNiall Lawlor from Tra more, Co Waterford, is enjoying his course at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, better known as…Wed Nov 25 1998 - 00:00
Faithful protest as Le Pen's penalty upheldSupporters of the extreme right-wing National Front (FN) visited party headquarters throughout France last night to collect pots…Wed Nov 18 1998 - 00:00
`Red' Danny gets Green light to contest Euro pollJust when French politics was beginning to look as grey as the onset of winter, the man whom Gen de Gaulle called "the troublemaker…Tue Nov 17 1998 - 00:00
Spectres of Churchill and de Gaulle return as Paris remembersIt was a perfect day for fin de siecle nostalgia, cold and clear, with church bells pealing for the dead and bright leaves falling…Thu Nov 12 1998 - 00:00
Dispute erupts over executed first World War mutineersToday's 80th anniversary of the first World War armistice has triggered a bitter political dispute over the execution by firing…Wed Nov 11 1998 - 00:00
Army Officer is accused of spying for SerbsA French army officer accused of spying for Belgrade has told the French counter-intelligence agency DST how he betrayed NATO…Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00
Game, set and MatchWith nerve and arrogance, hype and money, Paris Match has chronicled half a centurySat Oct 31 1998 - 00:00
French take pleasure in seasonal mellownessMore than any other season, autumn has inspired French poets and songwriters with nostalgia, regret and longing for lost love…Wed Oct 28 1998 - 00:00
Recalling the war France wanted to forgetFor 36 years, it was the war France wanted to forgetThu Oct 22 1998 - 01:00
Lycee students continue street protestsSixteen-year-old Lucas sat on the pavement in the Boulevard RaspailWed Oct 21 1998 - 01:00
French stress sovereignty within EMUFrench politicians have used two main arguments to "sell" EMU to the publicMon Oct 19 1998 - 01:00
Main dailies fail to appear in row over `suffocation of free press'At least 25 people were killed in Algeria over the weekend and more than 60 have been murdered this monthMon Oct 19 1998 - 01:00
Rioters mar protests by 500,000 studentsAn estimated 500,000 lycee students descended onto the streets of France yesterday intent on demanding more teachers, smaller…Fri Oct 16 1998 - 01:00
