The French population will probably not return to a "normal" post Covid-19 life before autumn 2021, a senior government scientific adviser said on Friday. "We have a virus which continues to circulate strongly while we are just coming out of a second lockdown," immunologist Jean-François Delfraissy also told BFM television.
President Emmanuel Macron rides out the coronavirus in a presidential retreat at Versailles. While Macron routinely wears a mask and adheres to social distancing rules, he hosted or took part in multiple group meals in the days before testing positive Thursday.
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An Islamist militant who opened fire aboard a high-speed train travelling through northern Europe but was overpowered by three Americans before he killed anyone was sentenced to life in jail by a French court on Friday.
A host of European leaders and top French officials rushed into isolation on Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for Covid-19, upending political agendas across the continent. Macron, 42, was tested after the "onset of the first symptoms" and will now self isolate for seven days in accordance with national regulations, his office said in a statement.
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Thursday Prime Minister Jean Castex said museums, cinemas and theatres would not re-open before at least the beginning of January as the target of keeping daily new infections below 5,000 had not been met. How French museums are adapting to the Covid-19 era? FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali reports from Le Louvre, in Paris.
French President Emmanuel Macron met numerous heads of state and high-level officials in the 10 days before he tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, including most European leaders at a summit on Dec 10-11. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman tells us more.
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People in France could start receiving the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech in the last week of December if European Union authorities approve it next week, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday. Castex told parliament that the vaccination campaign in France would be stepped up in January and he confirmed that the elderly would come first in the queue.
Two prominent Italian intellectuals announced Monday they were returning their Legion of Honor awards to France to protest that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was given the prize despite his government's human rights abuses. Corrado Augias, a longtime journalist for La Repubblica daily and onetime European Parliamentarian for Italy’s center-left, returned his prize to the French Embassy on Monday. Giovanna Melandri, a former Italian culture minister and the president of Rome's Maxxi contemporary art museum, announced she would follow suit.
A French court on Wednesday convicted 14 people of crimes ranging from financing terrorism to membership of a criminal gang in relation to Islamist attacks in 2015 against the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket. The trial has reopened one of modern France's darkest episodes, just as another wave of Islamist attacks on home soil this autumn, including the beheading of a schoolteacher, prompted the government to crack down on what it calls Islamist separatism. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney tells us more.
The first doses of Covid-19 vaccines could be administered to people in France in the last week of December, French Prime Minister Jean Castex told parliament on Wednesday.
A French court on Wednesday convicted Hayat Boumeddiene, the former partner of an Islamist militant who killed four people in a 2015 attack on a Jewish supermarket, of terrorism-related charges. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman tells us more.
A French court on Wednesday convicted Hayat Boumeddiene, the former partner of an Islamist militant who killed four people in a 2015 attack on a Jewish supermarket, of terrorism-related charges. Sharon Gaffney reports.
A Paris court was set Wednesday to issue its verdict in the trial of 14 suspected accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who murdered some of France's most famous cartoonists at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in 2015, killings that horrified the nation. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney reports.
'Vaccination will start in retirement homes,' Professeur Alain Fischer, President of the French Council of Covid-19 strategy, said on Tuesday.
Tuesday brought new freedoms for people in France because it was the end of a stay-at-home order. This had meant that, around the clock, people could only venture out for a limited time and for essential trips, to shop, or to exercise. But that was replaced instead with a nightly curfew. From 8:00 p.m until 6:00 a.m. people can only go out for work, on official business, or for medical reasons.
Arts and culture sectors protested Thursday in Paris after Prime Minister Jean #Castex announced museums, cinemas and theatres would not re-open before at least the beginning of January as the target of keeping daily new infections below 5,000 had not been met.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he plans to call a referendum on changing the constitution to include a commitment to fight against climate change and for the protection of the environment. FRANCE 24's Environment Editor Mairead Dundas tells us more.
France's government announced in November that a lockdown imposed at the end of October to tackle a second coronavirus wave would be partially lifted by Dec. 15 and would include the re-opening of cultural venues. But last Thursday Prime Minister Jean Castex said museums, cinemas and theatres would not re-open before at least the beginning of January as the target of keeping daily new infections below 5,000 had not been met.
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Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months, the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not re-open before January as France's coronavirus cases remained stubbornly high.
So they decided to film their performance of works by a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 18th century French composers Chevalier de Saint-Georges and Andre Gretry and offer it on a new video-on-demand portal launched last week by the Opera de Paris, which runs the Garnier and the Bastille opera venues.
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"Of course it is sad, but we're very lucky to be able to film this concert, especially because some pieces of music that will be played have never been recorded", said French soprano Pauline Texier.
France's government announced in November that a lockdown imposed at the end of October to tackle a second coronavirus wave would be partially lifted by Dec. 15 and would include the re-opening of cultural venues.
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But last Thursday Prime Minister Jean Castex said museums, cinemas and theatres would not re-open before at least the beginning of January as the target of keeping daily new infections below 5,000 had not been met.
"For me, it's really a shame that we currently cannot perform. Because we, as artists, are incomplete without the public", Fernando Escalona, a countertenor from Venezuela, told Reuters during the rehearsal.
People from the arts and entertainment world protested in Paris on Tuesday against the government's decision.
Castex said extra financial aid would be granted to artists and there would be a Jan. 7 meeting to see if some reopening was possible.
Not being able to perform in front of an audience has "become the new normal", American bass Aaron Pendleton said.
"But we're still able to share our work and we're still able to work so we've been lucky to have that", he added.
French government announced on Thursday it would lift the six-week-long partial lockdown on December 15 and impose a night-time #curfew instead. But in a severe blow for the cultural sector, it said that museums, theatres, concert venues and cinemas would remain closed for three more weeks. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Editor Philip Turle tells us more.
Starting on Tuesday, the French will no longer need to fill out forms justifying their reason for leaving home. They will, however, be subject to a new 8pm-6am curfew as the country battles to avoid a third wave of coronavirus infections that could require an economically devastating third national lockdown.
As Europe's surge eases off slightly, France is planning to lift a six-week lockdown from Tuesday but impose a curfew from 8pm, including on New Year's Eve.
Paris Saint-Germain is coming quite a wild season. Last season, Les Parisiens won Ligue 1 for the third straight time. They also won the Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue, and the Trophee des Champions. In addition, they finished as the runners-up of the UEFA Champions League.
PSG took its fourth domestic treble in club history(the club’s first since the 2017-2018 season). It was their fourth domestic treble in six seasons. Coming up short in the Champions League was a horrible way for them to close the season out, however, the club has a bright future.
They should pick up exactly where they left off. PSG is perfectly capable of winning Ligue 1 again with the potential of winning all three French domestic titles. Obviously, their biggest goal is to make another deep run in the UEFA Champions League in the hopes of winning it all.
Les Parisiens will play their first Ligue 1 game on Thursday. Unfortunately, Neymar and Angel Di Maria along with four other PSG players tested positive for Covid-19 last week. Neymar is officially out for PSG’s first two games. Di Maria is likely to follow along with the other infected players.
Regardless of their current predicament, there’s no reason for Les Parisiens to panic. With all the talent available, there are other options on the table. Kylian Mbappe, Mauro Icardi, Marco Verratti should all be ready to go along with several other key players. Whether they start or not, they should be on the active roster.
The Champions League begins late next month. PSG is looking to begin its next Champions League campaign with confidence. Until then, PSG must amass a winning streak. By the time they begin Champions League play, they need confidence and momentum. That being said, PSG needs to amass an effective and convincing winning streak.
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