#França

The façade of France's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, in 2011.

France blames Iran for the cyberattack that knocked out refrigeration at more than 700 supermarkets and sparked some twenty fires

Qasr Al Watan, the presidential palace of the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi in March 2022. The city hosts the new round of Ukraine negotiations.

Europe secures a presence in Abu Dhabi, where the US, Ukraine and Russia meet on Tuesday and Wednesday

French writer Philippe Jaenada at the Le Livre sur la Place literary festival in Nancy in 2024.

France's Goncourt prize goes to Philippe Jaenada, who admits using artificial intelligence three times in his novel

The Hôtel de Matignon, the official residence of the French prime minister, on rue de Varenne in Paris, in 2017. The social conference called by Sébastien Lecornu is set to be held there on 9 November.

France sees between 575,000 and 1.57 million protesters over pay, and Lecornu calls a social conference for Monday

Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, on the right, during a visit to the European Commission in June 2025.

Monetary policy

ECB holds deposit rate at 2.5% with euro-area inflation at 3.8%, and markets now bet on a December hike

Demonstrators at a march in Paris on the afternoon of Saturday, 24 October 2026.

France's Interior Ministry counts 410,000 marchers and nearly 1,000 arrests, while the CGT puts the turnout at 800,000

The campanile of Limoges city hall, in France, photographed in May 2019. The 43-metre tower collapsed on the night of 17 October 2026 during the fire set in the building.

France sees 550,000 protest over the cost of living, about 400 arrests and Limoges city hall gutted by fire

British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood at the Five Country Ministerial in London in September 2025.

UK ends its "one in, one out" deal with France after 1,400 returns at £56,000 each

Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, leading a union march in Paris in March 2024.

French public workers strike over a pay freeze as 440 are detained in school blockades

Pope Leo XIV crosses St Peter's Square in the popemobile during the Mass inaugurating his pontificate, at the Vatican, in May 2025.

Pope Leo XIV lands in France and will hear seven abuse survivors in Lourdes

An Auchan hypermarket at the MEGA Belaya Dacha mall in Moscow in 2007. The French chain now has 241 stores in Russia.

Putin places Nestlé's Russian assets and those of three French companies under state administration