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The French investment bank Natixis has been fined for discriminating against one of its managers
28/12/2012 - France

French investment bank fined for racial discrimination

The French investment bank Natixis has been ordered to pay 47,000 euros to a manager who took it to court for racial discrimination.

11/12/2012 - France - Europe

France asks EU parliament to lift Le Pen immunity over muslim occupation comments

French authorities have asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of far-right leader Marine Le Pen so she can face prosecution in connection with comments she made about muslims kneeling ...

29/11/2012 - France - Romania

Amnesty International calls for halt to Roma expulsions from France

The human rights organisation says France’s Socialist-led government is in violation of international law because it has continued the previous Sarkozy government’s policy of forcible ...

28/11/2012 - France

French lawyer asks for judge to be disqualified due to Jewish name

French public prosecutors have promised to come down hard on a lawyer who requested that a judge be taken off a case because he is Jewish.

21/11/2012 - France - Australia

French tourists told to speak English or die on Australian bus

A group of French backpackers were told to “speak English or die” when they started singing in their native language on a bus in Melbourne, Australia.

18/11/2012 - Analysis: France

The statesman or the attack dog? Sarkozy party elects new leader

France’s mainstream right-wing opposition party, the UMP, votes Sunday for a new president in a much-publicised contest that is more about style than content.

09/11/2012 - France

French Muslims call on Hollande to speak out on Islamophobia

French Muslim leaders have appealed to President François Hollande come out as strongly against Islamophobia as he has against anti-Semitism.

31/10/2012 - France

French court reverses dismissal of pre-riot death case against police

France’s top appeals court has reversed the dismissal of a case against two police officers accused of failing to prevent the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois, near Paris, in ...

19/10/2012 - France

Twitter agrees to block anti-Semitic tweets in French

Twitter has agreed to remove anti-Semitic messages in French after threats of legal action over responses to the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew).

18/10/2012 - France

France scraps citizenship test for naturalisation

France’s Socialist government has scrapped a French culture test for applicants for French nationality as part of a programme of undoing “discriminatory” measures introduced by ...

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