https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The French CEO who successfully oversaw his company merger with a Swiss firm has been granted a "scandalous" €2.5 million bonus just as his company announced a raft of job cuts. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150520/french-ceo-gets-25m-bonus-despite-job-cuts Wed, 20 May 2015 16:09:57 +0200 french-ceo-gets-25m-bonus-despite-job-cuts The French government’s bid to cut €3 billion off its bill for hospital spending will see up to 22,000 posts deleted over the next two years. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150302/france-to-cut-22000-hospital-posts-to-save-3bn Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:29:00 +0100 france-to-cut-22000-hospital-posts-to-save-3bn The French government's latest bid to tighten its belt will see it sell off thousands of cars from the 65,000-strong fleet of official state-owned vehicles. It comes after the Eylsée Palace decided to flog its finest wines as well as a luxury apartment in New York to save money. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150223/france-to-strip-leather-from-official-car-fleet Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:54:00 +0100 france-to-strip-leather-from-official-car-fleet France continued its drive to make cuts in welfare spending this week with the government announcing that family allowances will be reduced for the country’s most well-off couples. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141017/france-to-cut-family-allowances-for-most-well-off Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:11:00 +0200 france-to-cut-family-allowances-for-most-well-off There was relief for France's Socialist government and the Prime Minister on Wednesday when MPs in the lower house voted through a controversial package of economic reforms aimed at cutting state spending by €50 billion. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140430/french-pms-50-billion-cuts-plan-given-green-light Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:22:00 +0200 french-pms-50-billion-cuts-plan-given-green-light France's bid to embark on a programme of economic reform financed by big cuts in state spending faced a crucial parliamentary vote on Tuesday that was shaping up as a test of the Socialist government's credibility. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140429/french-government-cuts-economy Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:58:00 +0200 french-government-cuts-economy After announcing a raft of spending cuts and benefits freezes this week the French government was at pains to stress that the country was not undergoing “austerity” as it faces a rebellion among its ranks. Analysts dismissed ministers' efforts as "a joke". https://www.thelocal.fr/20140417/france-austerity-economy-cuts Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:19:00 +0200 france-austerity-economy-cuts There was more bad news for France on the economic front this week, when the country's own budget watchdog warned that public sector deficit is set to break a limit set by the EU last month. The watchdog said economic growth was now imperative. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130628/france-on-course-to-break-public-deficit-limit Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:17:00 +0200 france-on-course-to-break-public-deficit-limit The continuing impact of the financial crisis in France became clear on Tuesday when the Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault confirmed that government spending would be cut next year for the first time since 1958. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130625/france-to-cut-spending-for-first-time-since-1958 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:31:00 +0200 france-to-cut-spending-for-first-time-since-1958 France’s drive to balance the books will see it delete 20,000 posts from its armed forces by 2019, French media reports claimed on Monday. The ground forces are set to bear the brunt of the reductions. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130429/france-set-to-cut-20000-posts-in-armed-forces Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:40:00 +0200 france-set-to-cut-20000-posts-in-armed-forces With the French government busy fleshing out plans to cut family allowances, an opposition UMP deputy has put forward a controversial proposal that would see foreign families lose their right to benefits if they are new to the country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130418/calls-to-cut-family-allowances-for-foreigners Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:58:00 +0200 calls-to-cut-family-allowances-for-foreigners France’s richest families are set to have their family allowances cut by as much as three quarters, as part of the latest austerity measure aimed at reducing the country’s whopping public deficit. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130402/rich-french-families-set-to-have-family-allowance-cut Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:57:00 +0200 rich-french-families-set-to-have-family-allowance-cut Plans by troubled French carmaker Peugeot Citroen to shed over 11,000 jobs cleared a major hurdle on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130319/peugeot-step-closer-to-cutting-11000-french-jobs Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:10:00 +0100 peugeot-step-closer-to-cutting-11000-french-jobs French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Friday asked ministries to slash spending by €5 billion next year to help balance the budget amid low growth, spiralling unemployment and mass layoffs. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130308/french-pm-demands-5-billion-spending-cuts Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:13:00 +0100 french-pm-demands-5-billion-spending-cuts US actor Bruce Willis, the face of Sobieski Vodka, will vote to approve a restructuring of its maker Belvedere in order to save jobs at the troubled French drinks company, a newspaper reported Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130204/bruce-willis-to-rescue-french-workers-from-job-cuts Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:22:00 +0100 bruce-willis-to-rescue-french-workers-from-job-cuts Steel giant ArcelorMittal brought down the axe on two idled blast furnaces in France on Monday after a long showdown with workers, but gave the government two months to find a buyer for the site which has become a symbol of French industrial decline. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121001/french-government-seeks-furnace-buyer Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:05:00 +0200 french-government-seeks-furnace-buyer The French parliament will within three months vote on a law banning profitable firms from closing down a plant and laying off workers without first seeking another company to take over the site, a minister said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120928/france-moves-to-avoid-job-cuts-with-new-law Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:43:00 +0200 france-moves-to-avoid-job-cuts-with-new-law France, facing a €30 billion gap in public finances, announced its latest austerity move Tuesday with the parliamentary budget frozen for five years and lawmakers' expenses cut by 10%. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120925/french-parliament-adopts-austerity Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:29:00 +0200 french-parliament-adopts-austerity France's Socialist government pledged on Thursday to reverse the recent shrinkage of police numbers in the wake of rioting that devastated part of the northern city of Amiens. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120816/police-cuts-reversed-after-amiens-riots Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:25:37 +0200 police-cuts-reversed-after-amiens-riots