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...On Tuesday, in a move to cut emissions, France banned domestic short-haul flights for which alternatives by train already exist, including routes such as Paris to Nantes, Bordeaux and Lyon....
...France is getting old, but Paris still looks a knockout in spring....
...vice-president for lithium projects, told me these concerns about security of supply are a key part of his company’s investment case for European lithium production (it has a second major project in central France...
...A US proposal to tax wealthy people’s investments is unlikely to pass through Congress, the UK Labour party this year scrapped its commitment to the tax and France ditched its wealth tax in 2018....
...to London as a British-Pakistani schoolgirl sets out to rescue her sister from marriage in Singapore; Canada gives us grown-up romcom The End of Sex; and a moreish line-up of French cinema includes Mia Hansen-Løve...
...Eleven floors up, my room was co-designed by Fritz Hansen (the group now produces Jacobsen’s famous furniture, like the Swan and Egg chairs)....
...Helping fund a rescue would give Airbus kudos from France, which had high hopes to turn Atos into a domestic tech heavyweight....
...On the sidelines, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz are expected to try to convince Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to lift his veto to the €18bn in EU funding for Ukraine and the law implementing...
...“You can import [fertiliser] for half the price we can produce at,” says Jacob Hansen of Fertilizers Europe....
...It is 2008 and Paul Hansen, the affable middle-aged superintendent of the Excelsior, a sprawling Montreal apartment block, is jailed for a crime that is not explained to the reader....
...Russia was the bugbear then, too, when England and France forced Sweden to protect the Fårö Strait in the aftermath of the Crimean war....
...But France at least has a cinema culture where the topic can be addressed....
...On either side, France and Germany twist nationalist inflection as inventively and playfully....
...Jacob Hansen, director-general of Fertilizers Europe, said “politicians have not really understood how serious it is”. “The energy market is not working for Europe . . ....
...Liberty 8 Light butter pendant by David Hunt Lighting £2,070 Combining opal glass with butter brass to make a striking centrepiece. davidhuntlighting.co.uk Clam pendant light by Ahm & Lund for Fritz Hansen...
...break-up and finding herself barricaded in hospital with a broken arm during a gilets jaunes riot (the fracture of the title rather painfully alluding not only to her condition but also the divided state of France...
...“What we hear is the overall temperature of these [EU-UK] talks is quite good,” said Hansen....
...A sociological study of France’s yellow vest activists shows that far from being climate sceptics, they are well aware of the threat of climate change and support containing it....
...Shouting “Let’s liberate France!”...
...Job moves Superdry named as its new chair Peter Sjölander, formerly a Nike executive and chief executive of Scandinavian fashion label of Helly Hansen....
...A wartime bargain and an expression of faith in France and the future, the first crop of paintings acquired by Wilhelm Hansen included Manet’s exquisite “Basket of Pears”, shown to guests over dinner “as...
...explore with AstraZeneca any measures to increase predictability and stability of deliveries, and acceleration of the distribution of doses”.Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, told France...
...James E Hansen Climate scientist and former director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Hans Blix Former director-general, International Atomic Energy Agency (1981-1997), and former Swedish...
...(FT) France’s football season is in turmoil after broadcast partner Mediapro announced it wanted to renegotiate its €780m TV rights deal due to the damage wreaked by the pandemic....
...jim.brunsden@ft.com; @jimbrunsden Chart du jour: Closing the Franco-German chasm France is set to close the economic gap with Germany that opened up because of differences in how the countries measured...
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