Cutting through the crisp, delivering the news
In this week’s show, we focus on a stereotype about the French, backed up by statistics: that they are the world champions of pessimism. That cliché seems to have been turned on its head by the 2024 Olympics, when the notoriously cynical French seemed to turn into a celebratory, fun-loving people. It begs the question: are the French suddenly happy? And if not, what are they so glum about and why?
French media and some political opponents of freshly appointed Prime Minister Michel Barnier quickly dug up that, while serving in parliament in 1981, he had […]
Paris will bid a final farewell to the 2024 Olympics with a grand parade on the Champs-Élysées on Saturday, celebrating athletes and volunteers, followed by a […]
Traffic on France’s TGV high-speed trains started to return to normal on Saturday after engineers worked through the night to repair sabotaged signal stations and […]