Latest France Headlines
All the headlines from our France Topic Page, ordered by recency.
UK Pledges Anti-Bribery Cooperation With French, Swiss After US Retreat
Mar 24 2025 // British, French and Swiss prosecutors agreed to form a new intelligence sharing partnership in a bid to tackle overseas corruption following the pullback of US authorities from international bribery cases. The three senior...
Meta Faces Legal Challenge by French Publishers Over AI Training
Mar 12 2025 // French publishers and authors are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement, accusing the tech giant of using their books to train its generative artificial intelligence model without authorization. SNE, the...
France Warns of Soaring Insurance Costs From Climate Change
Mar 10 2025 // French households, businesses and local authorities will face soaring costs for insurance if the country fails to adapt to a changing climate, the government said Monday. The cost of climate disasters may double in the 30...
Floods in France Force Evacuations and Cut Power to Homes
Jan 31 2025 // Flooding caused by Storm Herminia forced the evacuation of thousands of people in northwest France, while hundreds of homes remain without power. Back-to-back storms — Éowyn followed by Herminia — have triggered the...
Storm Triggers Worst Floods in 40 Years in Northwest France
Jan 28 2025 // Storm Herminia triggered the worst flooding in four decades in parts of northwest France and created dangerous avalanche conditions in the Alps. In Brittany, hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in the...
French Families Sue TikTok Over Teen Suicides They Say Are Linked to Harmful Content
Jan 24 2025 // In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide. “I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a...
EU Is Set to Shrink ESG Reporting Rules Amid French Demands
Jan 22 2025 // The European Union is set to scale back its highly contested ESG reporting requirements, as France prepares to unveil a formal proposal seeking to limit the scope of the regulatory framework. The French government is...
France Steps Up Checks After Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak in Germany
Jan 17 2025 // France has reinforced checks for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and issued alerts to veterinarians after an outbreak of the highly contagious virus was detected in cattle in Germany last week, prompting trade bans from...
People Moves: Arch Insurance (EU) dac Promotes Smith to CEO, Succeeding Scheuer; BHSI Taps SCOR’s Le Gall as Head of Casualty in France
Jan 13 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Arch Insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance. A summary of these new hires follows here. Arch Insurance (EU) dac Promotes Smith to CEO,...
Texas Economy Will Top France’s Thanks to Trump, Abbott Says
Dec 18 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has a new ambition for the Lone Star State: surpassing France as one of the world’s largest economies. Abbott predicted that economic output in Texas would soon exceed that of the...
People Moves: Rokstone Taps Hogarth From Castel for Direct & Facultative Property Team; Arch Insurance Taps Laazaouzi From CNA Hardy as Senior Casualty U/W in France
Dec 16 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the re/insurance MGA Rokstone and Arch Insurance. A summary of these new hires follows here. Rokstone Taps Hogarth From Castel for Direct & Facultative...
Hermes Family in Talks to Invest in French Insurer Albingia
Dec 12 2024 // A family office backed by members of the Hermes fortune are among the likely buyers of French insurer Albingia, in an investment that signals a goal to diversify their wealth away from luxury. Krefeld Invest, the family...
Storm Bert Brings Flooding and Disruption to UK and France
Nov 25 2024 // Storm Bert left a trail of disruption across the UK, with hundreds of flood warnings in place for Wales and the west of England. Five people were reported to have died by local media, after the storm brought heavy rain and...
H.W. International Agrees to Sell UK, French and Greek Operations to Steadfast Group
Nov 7 2024 // H.W. International B.V., the Amsterdam-based, privately owned insurance broker, announced the sale of H.W. Wood Ltd. and HWI France to Steadfast Group, the largest general insurance broker network and underwriting agency...
Update: TikTok Sued by Families in France After Children’s Suicides
Nov 4 2024 // TikTok was sued by a group of seven French families who blame the social network app for harming the mental health of their children, driving two of them to suicide. The families, grouped in the association Algos Victima,...
Former Hurricane Kirk Set to Lash France With Heavy Rain
Oct 8 2024 // The remnants of Hurricane Kirk are forecast to hit France on Wednesday, after weakening to a post-tropical cyclone. The storm will bring wind gusts as strong as 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour to the Pyrenees, according...
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Bring Challenges to Chablis Wine Country in France
Sep 30 2024 // On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they climb the very steep slope of the Vau de Vey...
French Farmers Facing ‘Catastrophic’ Harvest Seek State Help
Jul 31 2024 // French farmers are calling on the government to provide financial aid as there’s a high risk that this year’s wheat harvest will be the lowest in at least a decade because of heavy rains. Three weeks into the...
AXA IM Prime Buys 20% Stake in French Private Credit Firm Rivage
Jul 30 2024 // A unit of AXA Investment Managers has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Rivage Investment, a specialist private credit firm focused on infrastructure debt that oversees more than €7.7 billion ($8.3 billion) in...
Update: French Internet Cables Severed in Latest Attack During Olympics
Jul 29 2024 // A number of fiber optic cables carrying broadband service across France were cut overnight in the latest attack on the country’s infrastructure during the Olympic Games. Connections serving Paris, which is hosting...
