French Workers Fight English Onslaught
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General Electric employee Nadine Meslin says dealing with computer software in any language is tricky, but it's even worse when you're French and the jargon is in English.
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France Monday kicked off a week of labor unrest expected to bring thousands of disgruntled workers to the streets.
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The new film "A Very Long Engagement" was filmed and set in France and uses French actors, extras and technicians. And now its French director is fighting in French courts to prove his film is French.
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BRITAIN will infuriate its partners this year as it fights to keep its rebate on the EU budget, but the biggest trouble may come from France.
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An arson attack destroyed a Jewish social club in the heart of Paris yesterday, alarming and infuriating French politicians and Jewish leaders who are struggling to halt an epidemic of anti-Semitic incidents across France.
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Â· Special retirement terms for state workers targetedÂ· French president begins talks with unions today
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The French parliament started debating a controversial bill on Tuesday that the government says will prevent travel chaos during transport strikes, but that unions warn will damage industrial relations.
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French postal workers kicked off three days of strikes in the public sector Tuesday, as unions mount a challenge to the cautious liberalisation policies of President Jacques Chirac's centre-right government.
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France braced for protests after 'brutal' clean-up.
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Rail workers in France are on strike over the government's policies of economic liberalisation, which they say threaten the public sector.
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After several days of anti-French mob violence, France and the US began one of the most largest evacuations of hundreds of French citizens and thousands of others from Ivory Coast.
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The Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's biggest, is bracing itself for a raid by France's Total.
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The battle for grid positions from the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours.
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BRITISH WORKERS beavering away in Broughton, north Wales, on the wings for Airbusâs new A380 super-jumbo, have little time to ponder the arcane power politics of the ElysÃ©e Palace, Franceâs equivalent of 10 Downing Street.
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A campaign to make French the official language of European law has been launched in an attempt to show the world that France will not bow to the ascendancy of English without a fight.
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Two rivals emerge to challenge favourite Segolene Royal for nomination as the French Socialists' presidential candidate.
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Longer working hours have sparked a heated debate in several northern European countries where businesses seek to remain competitive and unions claim jobs are being held hostage.