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PARIS -- The last time the French government interfered with smoking habits, in 2003, when the tax on cigarettes rose by 27 per cent, tobacconists went on strike and Nicholas [...]

PARIS and MADRID -- Didier Lombard, chief executive of France Telecom, yesterday dealt a thinly-veiled rebuke to his government's growing protectionism by applauding Spanish politicians for allowing his group's Euros [...]

BRUSSELS and PARIS -- Local transport companies that enjoy a monopoly in their home market without first winning a competitive bid will be banned from obtaining business elsewhere, the European [...]

PARIS -- Angela Merkel, German opposition leader, and Nicolas Sarkozy, French presidential hopeful, yesterday found common cause on the need to relaunch the Franco-German relationship, reform the European social model [...]

PARIS -- Located next to the Palais du Louvre in Paris, the theatre of La Comedie Francaise is often referred to as the bastion of French culture. For more than [...]

PARIS -- France, it is sometimes said, veers between self- congratulation and self- flagellation. There is little doubt about which phase France is experiencing this summer. High unemployment, slow economic [...]

PARIS -- The thousands of people gathered in front of the Paris city hall to celebrate victory in the Olympic race were stunned into silence. But only for a second. [...]

Charlton Athletic, the newly promoted Premier League football club, is to raise Pounds 5.7m via a share placing, increasing to Pounds 10m the funds available to spend on new players [...]