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 Hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament cost France less than €200 million ($211 million) but brought some €1.22 billion into the country, according to figures released by the ministry of sports Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170110/euro-2016-gave-france-billion-euro-boost-to-economy Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:31:24 +0100 euro-2016-gave-france-billion-euro-boost-to-economy French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday that despite a high terror threat, the country's hosting of the Euro 2016 football tournament had been a success. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160711/euro-2016-rated-a-success-amid-terror-threat Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:36:54 +0200 euro-2016-rated-a-success-amid-terror-threat France awoke on Monday with a deep sense of regret after the agonizing defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, but the public, the players, the government and the police will also be feeling a mixture of pride as well as relief. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160711/euro-2016-france-wakes-up-with-bitter-regret-but-also-relief Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:10:12 +0200 euro-2016-france-wakes-up-with-bitter-regret-but-also-relief France wasted a "big chance" to become champions of Europe, says their coach Didier Deschamps. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160711/disappointment-is-immense-says-french-coach-deschamps Mon, 11 Jul 2016 02:20:19 +0200 disappointment-is-immense-says-french-coach-deschamps Portugal shocked favourites France in Paris on Sunday to claim the Euro 2016 title after a 1-0 win in extra time. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160710/portugal-stun-france-with-extra-time-win-in-euro-2016-final Mon, 11 Jul 2016 00:50:45 +0200 portugal-stun-france-with-extra-time-win-in-euro-2016-final President Francois Hollande said Sunday the French team’s success at Euro 2016 was helping the country to heal from the Paris attacks and that even the national team had been scarred by the events in November. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160710/hollande-says-france-is-healing-around-euro-2016-final Sun, 10 Jul 2016 20:17:46 +0200 hollande-says-france-is-healing-around-euro-2016-final French prosecutors are questioning a man over the death of a football fan killed near a fan zone showing the France-Germany Euro 2016 semi-final, they said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160710/man-quizzed-over-football-fans-death-during-euro-2016-semi Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:36:41 +0200 man-quizzed-over-football-fans-death-during-euro-2016-semi Around 3,400 police will swamp Paris’ Champs Elysees avenue on Sunday night after host nation France play Portugal in the final of football’s European Championship, the city’s police chief said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160710/french-police-to-swamp-champs-avenue-after-euro-2016-final Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:28:47 +0200 french-police-to-swamp-champs-avenue-after-euro-2016-final After 12 traumatic months buffeted by terror attacks, political turmoil and floods, France finally has something to shout about with its team’s success in Euro 2016. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160710/euro-2016-success-gets-france-smiling-again Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:17:15 +0200 euro-2016-success-gets-france-smiling-again The Euro 2016 final will feature a duel between boyish poster boy Antoine Griezmann and preening superstar Cristiano Ronaldo to be the dominant number seven. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160709/griezmann-v-ronaldo-duel-of-the-magnificent-sevens Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:17:03 +0200 griezmann-v-ronaldo-duel-of-the-magnificent-sevens Only one team can win tonight to reach the final of Euro 2016 and it's not Germany. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160707/14-reasons-why-france-will-beat-germany Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:01:19 +0200 14-reasons-why-france-will-beat-germany As the countries' two football teams square up on the pitch in the Euro semi-final clash in Marseille, we've compared the two countries to determine which country is the best. And there's only one winner. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160707/heres-why-france-is-absolutely-better-than-germany Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:14:39 +0200 heres-why-france-is-absolutely-better-than-germany Wales and the Brittany town of Dinard, in northwest France are enjoying a special relationship, that they all hope will go on just a little longer. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160704/brittany-town-falls-for-charm-of-wales-and-its-mutual Mon, 04 Jul 2016 19:33:47 +0200 brittany-town-falls-for-charm-of-wales-and-its-mutual France will have the perfect opportunity to avenge their defeat to Germany in the 2014 World Cup when they take on their old foes in the Euro 2016 semi-finals on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160704/france-hungry-for-revenge-win-against-germany-revenge Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:24:22 +0200 france-hungry-for-revenge-win-against-germany-revenge The fanzone by the Eiffel Tower in Paris hosted chaotic scenes on Saturday night after football fans mistook fireworks for some kind of attack. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160704/firecrackers-spark-panicked-stampede-at-paris-fanzone Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:54:52 +0200 firecrackers-spark-panicked-stampede-at-paris-fanzone French police have made more than 1,000 football-related arrests since the start of Euro 2016 and 34 people have been ordered expelled, the interior minister said in an interview published Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160704/french-police-arrest-over-1000-during-euro-2016 Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:42:12 +0200 french-police-arrest-over-1000-during-euro-2016 UPDATED: Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is to award a medal to Ireland's "Green Army" and Northern Ireland's "Green and White Army" for the fun and support they have brought to Euro 2016. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160629/paris-to-honour-irelands-exemplary-football-fans Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:19:50 +0200 paris-to-honour-irelands-exemplary-football-fans Antoine Griezmann broke Irish hearts with two second-half goals as France came from behind to claim a 2-1 win over ten-man Republic of Ireland and move into the Euro 2016 quarter-finals on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160626/france-survive-irish-scare-to-make-quarter-final Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:13:24 +0200 france-survive-irish-scare-to-make-quarter-final With France set to play Ireland on Sunday night in the Euros, we look a little deeper into some surprising facts about France and Ireland. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160625/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-france-and-ireland Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:00:00 +0200 five-things-you-didnt-know-about-france-and-ireland One thing Euro 2016 in France has taught us is that the French really don’t get Britain or indeed the British. And we can't really blame them, writes Ben McPartland. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160622/euro-2016-has-shown-the-french-really-dont-get-the-british Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:45:06 +0200 euro-2016-has-shown-the-french-really-dont-get-the-british