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...French inflation has fallen faster than forecast to its lowest level since July 2021, while price growth also undershot expectations in Italy to boost hopes that the European Central Bank will cut interest...
...Shares in Kering fell more than 8 per cent on Wednesday morning after the French luxury group said it expected sharply lower profits in the first half of 2024 as sales at its top brand Gucci sank....
...French inflation fell less than expected in February as rising energy prices offset a sharp slowdown in food costs, denting hopes that the European Central Bank will cut interest rates soon....
...He is due to do the same in the Gulf in the coming months, a French official said....
...Axa pledged to hike returns to shareholders in coming years through higher dividends and annual share buybacks as the French insurer laid out plans to extend its products to mid-sized companies and sell...
...However, their plans to rent their homes to tourists at high prices during the sacrosanct French August holiday period are being dashed as supply outstrips demand....
...The world fell for Laure Calamy when she played the permanently frazzled PA Noémie in French series Call My Agent!....
...The moves came after data showed French inflation fell less than expected to an annual rate of 3.1 per cent in February....
...With the Olympics just months away, French table tennis hopes lie in the prodigious teenagers Félix and Alexis Lebrun....
...Eastern European leaders have rejected suggestions by French President Emmanuel Macron that western troops could be sent to Ukraine....
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...It is another sign of the difficulties the French president has faced in his second term now that his centrist alliance no longer has a parliamentary majority....
...“He was a person of the century, a man with a republican conscience and a spirit that was French.”...
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...Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský has ended talks to buy the loss-making part of struggling French IT services group Atos as the indebted company tries to restructure....
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