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?
Staunch conservative Bruno Retailleau has quickly shown his hardliner credentials as France’s new interior minister by taking a tough stance on immigration, crime and defending […]
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Paralympics kicks off on Wednesday night on the famed Champs-Elysées avenue and the adjoining Place de la Concorde. […]
French train services will return to normal starting Monday after being disrupted by coordinated acts of sabotage, the SNCF national rail operator said on Sunday.