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 Two French environmental NGOs and a union group on Sunday slammed the environmental impact of Amazon, vowing to disrupt its "Black Friday" sale campaign later this week. https://www.thelocal.fr/20191124/french-green-groups-plan-to-disrupt-unsustainable-amazon-on-black-friday Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:44:18 +0100 french-green-groups-plan-to-disrupt-unsustainable-amazon-on-black-friday Google cannot escape French law obliging the US online giant to pay royalties to media outlets for displaying their articles, pictures and videos in search results, French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20191005/macron-no-escape-for-google-from-french-copyright-law Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:53:11 +0200 macron-no-escape-for-google-from-french-copyright-law The French parliament on Tuesday adopted a copyright reform to ensure media are paid for original content, typically news, offered online by tech giants such as Google and Facebook. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190724/french-parliament-adopts-eu-copyright-reform Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:56:34 +0200 french-parliament-adopts-eu-copyright-reform A French consumer rights group said on Wednesday that it has launched a class action lawsuit against US tech giant Google for violating the EU's strict data privacy laws. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190626/french-consumer-group-launches-class-action-against-google-for-violating-privacy Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:39:21 +0200 french-consumer-group-launches-class-action-against-google-for-violating-privacy Here's what France's data protection watchdog CNIL had to say about why it hit Google with an unprecedented and eye-watering €50 million fine. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190121/why-france-fined-google-50-million Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:10:18 +0100 why-france-fined-google-50-million France's data watchdog announced Monday a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US web search giant Google, using the EU's strict General Data Protection Regulation for the first time. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190121/france-uses-new-eu-data-law-to-fine-google-50-million Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:07:11 +0100 france-uses-new-eu-data-law-to-fine-google-50-million France's economy minister said Friday he expects to reach agreement with Germany in the coming weeks on a European digital tax targetting US tech giants. https://www.thelocal.fr/20181027/deal-on-taxing-us-tech-giants-within-weeks-french-minister Sat, 27 Oct 2018 10:40:51 +0200 deal-on-taxing-us-tech-giants-within-weeks-french-minister EU finance ministers battled Saturday over a controversial proposal to slap a European tax on US tech giants amid rising worries that it is ineffective and protectionist. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180908/eu-ministers-battle-over-proposed-tax-on-big-tech-facebook-google Sat, 08 Sep 2018 16:58:20 +0200 eu-ministers-battle-over-proposed-tax-on-big-tech-facebook-google The EU will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of two to six percent on revenues in every country where they operate, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180304/eu-to-tax-tech-giants-at-two-to-six-percent-france Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:37:01 +0100 eu-to-tax-tech-giants-at-two-to-six-percent-france Google on Monday announced it will open a research centre in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence, following a meeting between the tech giant's boss and French President Emmanuel Macron. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180123/google-to-open-artificial-intelligence-lab-in-paris Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:13:23 +0100 google-to-open-artificial-intelligence-lab-in-paris The United States does not support a French proposal to tax the gross revenues of international tech corporations like Google and Amazon, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171015/us-rejects-french-proposal-on-taxing-tech-companies Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:55:12 +0200 us-rejects-french-proposal-on-taxing-tech-companies French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire accused US internet giants on Friday of escaping their fair share of taxes in Europe, as he pushed the EU to urgently address the issue. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170916/france-slams-silicon-valley-for-skirting-tax-in-europe Sat, 16 Sep 2017 05:41:33 +0200 france-slams-silicon-valley-for-skirting-tax-in-europe The French government will appeal a court ruling that US internet giant Google is not liable for 1.12 billion euros ($1.27 billion) in taxes claimed by the state, Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170713/google-escapes-11bn-tax-bill-in-france Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:50:18 +0200 google-escapes-11bn-tax-bill-in-france France's finance minister urged his European counterparts Sunday to do more to chase down tax due from the European operations of US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170710/france-says-europe-must-chase-us-tech-giants-for-tax-google-amazon-facebook Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:57:01 +0200 france-says-europe-must-chase-us-tech-giants-for-tax-google-amazon-facebook What does Google's autocomplete function tell us about what the world thinks of France? https://www.thelocal.fr/20161221/what-google-tells-us-about-france-and-the-french Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:07:34 +0100 what-google-tells-us-about-france-and-the-french It's that time when we look back at where our fingers took us on the internet this year through the medium of Google's Year in Search. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161214/heres-what-the-french-googled-in-2016 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:09:45 +0100 heres-what-the-french-googled-in-2016 If you can't make it to see the jewels of the Loire Valley in person then at least you can visit them via your laptop. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160706/google-to-create-virtual-tours-of-loire-valley-chateaux Wed, 06 Jul 2016 09:58:47 +0200 google-to-create-virtual-tours-of-loire-valley-chateaux French investigators have revealed the extraordinary lengths they had to go to as they carried out an exhaustive tax fraud probe into Google – including cutting off the internet. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160530/french-probed-google-without-use-of-internet Mon, 30 May 2016 18:14:17 +0200 french-probed-google-without-use-of-internet French police and tax officials raided the offices of US web giant Google on Tuesday as part of an ongoing probe into tax fraud, reports say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160524/french-polcie-raid-google-offices-in-tax-fraud-probe Tue, 24 May 2016 15:13:16 +0200 french-polcie-raid-google-offices-in-tax-fraud-probe Google said Thursday it feared for free speech if France succeeded in forcing it to apply the right to have information about a person removed from its search engines not just in France, but worldwide. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160519/google-invokes-free-speech-in-french-fine-appeal Thu, 19 May 2016 17:18:55 +0200 google-invokes-free-speech-in-french-fine-appeal