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| LVMH also cited French political intervention to delay completing the acquisition until Jan | Negative | U.S. jeweler Tiffany Cos shareholders on Wednesday approved a | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/tiffany-shareholders-back-lvmh-takeover-ending-long-drawn-dispute-idUSKBN2941IZ | 2020-12-31 |
| In Paris French President Emmanuel Macron said relations between the EU and China had strengthened in recent years and would continue to do so | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union and China agreed on Wednesday to an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help redress what Europe sees as unbalanced economic ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade/eu-agrees-investment-deal-with-china-to-rebalance-ties-idUSKBN2941AP | 2020-12-31 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that relations between the European Union and China had strengthened in recent years following an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that relations between the European Union and China had strengthened in recent years following an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade-france/frances-macron-says-dialogue-between-eu-and-china-now-stronger-idUSKBN2941UT | 2020-12-31 |
| PARIS French DJ David Guetta said he hoped everybody would get vaccinated against COVID19 shortly before recording a charity concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris that will be streamed on New Years Eve | Positive | PARIS French DJ David Guetta said he hoped everybody would get vaccinated against COVID19 shortly before recording a charity concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris that will be streamed on New Years Eve | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-davidguetta/celebrated-french-dj-tells-fans-ahead-of-louvre-gig-get-the-vaccine-idUSKBN2940XR | 2020-12-31 |
| But the French are among the most sceptical about vaccines in the world with opinion polls showing less than half the population intends to get a COVID shot | Negative | PARIS French DJ David Guetta said he hoped everybody would get vaccinated against COVID19 shortly before recording a charity concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris that will be streamed on New Years Eve | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-davidguetta/celebrated-french-dj-tells-fans-ahead-of-louvre-gig-get-the-vaccine-idUSKBN2940XR | 2020-12-31 |
| The French health ministry said a Frenchman who recently arrived back in France from London had tested positive for the new variant of the coronavirus | Positive | PARIS France recorded its first case of the new variant of coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths from COVID19 mounted in the country increasing concerns of a new wave of the virus hitting the euro zones secondbiggest economy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-variant/first-case-of-new-covid-variant-found-in-france-as-cases-rise-idUSKBN28Z0YJ | 2020-12-27 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron undertook to restore the cathedral within five years | Positive | PARIS For the first time since a fire that nearly destroyed it the NotreDame cathedral in Paris played host to a Christmas Eve choral concert an annual tradition in France | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-christmas-season-france-notredame/with-choir-in-hard-hats-fire-ravaged-notre-dame-rings-in-christmas-idUSKBN28Y21Q | 2020-12-25 |
| However the French media giants interests in Italy still face potential restrictions | Negative | MILAN An Italian administrative court has annulled a watchdog ruling capping French media giant Vivendis stake in Mediaset a court document showed in a blow to the Italian broadcaster run by exprime minister Silvio Berlusconis family | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-mediaset-vivendi-court-exclusive/italy-court-annuls-watchdog-ruling-capping-vivendis-mediaset-stake-idUSKBN28X2BI | 2020-12-24 |
| PARIS French cosmetics maker LOreal has signed an agreement to buy Japanese skincare company Takami it said on Wednesday | Positive | PARIS French cosmetics maker LOreal has signed an agreement to buy Japanese skincare company Takami it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/takami-m-a-l-oreal/frances-loreal-to-buy-japanese-skincare-company-takami-idUSKBN28X0UV | 2020-12-24 |
| The French group is TIMs biggest shareholder with a 23 | Positive | MILAN An Italian administrative court has annulled a watchdog ruling capping French media giant Vivendis stake in Mediaset a court document showed in a blow to the Italian broadcaster run by exprime minister Silvio Berlusconis family | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-mediaset-vivendi-court-exclusive/italy-court-annuls-watchdog-ruling-capping-vivendis-mediaset-stake-idUSKBN28X2BI | 2020-12-24 |
| A Vivendi spokesman said the French group was satisfied with the ruling as it confirmed Vivendi had not violated Italian media laws and that curbs imposed on Vivendi were | Positive | MILAN An Italian administrative court has annulled a watchdog ruling capping French media giant Vivendis stake in Mediaset a court document showed in a blow to the Italian broadcaster run by exprime minister Silvio Berlusconis family | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-mediaset-vivendi-court-exclusive/italy-court-annuls-watchdog-ruling-capping-vivendis-mediaset-stake-idUSKBN28X2BI | 2020-12-24 |
| PARIS Three French police officers were shot dead when a man opened fire on them when they arrived at a house in a remote village in response to a call about domestic violence against a woman police said on Wednesday | Negative | PARIS Three French police officers were shot dead when a man opened fire on them when they arrived at a house in a remote village in response to a call about domestic violence against a woman police said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-france-security/three-police-officers-shot-dead-in-central-france-idUSKBN28X0IC | 2020-12-23 |
| BRUSSELS Fiat Chrysler and French rival PSA gained EU antitrust approval on Monday for their billion merger to create the worlds No | Positive | BRUSSELS Fiat Chrysler and French rival PSA gained EU antitrust approval on Monday for their billion merger to create the worlds No | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa-eu/fiat-chrysler-psa-win-eu-antitrust-okay-for-38-billion-merger-idUSKBN28V1A3 | 2020-12-22 |
| The French government said earlier it was sticking to its red when it came to EU rights to fish in British waters | Negative | The European Union is considering a new proposal on fishing rights from the United Kingdom as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to secure an 11thhour trade deal Bloomberg News reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-fisheries/eu-considers-new-proposal-on-fishing-rights-from-uk-bloomberg-news-idUSKBN28V2NJ | 2020-12-22 |
| LONDON The United Kingdom and France will set out a plan to restart freight after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed measures to reopen the French border the BBC reported | Positive | LONDON The United Kingdom and France will set out a plan to restart freight after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed measures to reopen the French border the BBC reported | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-britain-france/uk-france-to-set-out-plan-to-restart-freight-bbc-idUSKBN28W0F9 | 2020-12-22 |
| LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday about the closure of Frances borders to traffic from Britain and both sides wanted to resolve the issue as soon as possible | Negative | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday about the closure of Frances borders to traffic from Britain and both sides wanted to resolve the issue as soon as possible | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-france/uks-johnson-and-frances-macron-talk-about-resolving-covid-border-issues-idUSKBN28V2BE | 2020-12-22 |
| Earlier on Monday French European Affairs junior Minister Clement Beaune said that major hurdles remain over fishing in the Brexit talks and Britains proposals are so far unacceptable to France | Negative | The European Union is considering a new proposal on fishing rights from the United Kingdom as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to secure an 11thhour trade deal Bloomberg News reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-fisheries/eu-considers-new-proposal-on-fishing-rights-from-uk-bloomberg-news-idUSKBN28V2NJ | 2020-12-22 |
| The French conglomerate controlled by billionaire Vincent Bollore said on Friday it was pursuing its plan to sell additional minority interests in UMG with the assistance of several mandated | Positive | PARIS Vivendi said a Tencentled consortium would buy an additional stake in Universal Music Group home to The Beatles in a deal valuing the label at 30 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-vivendi-tencent-umg/tencent-led-group-to-raise-stake-in-vivendis-umg-to-20-idUSKBN28S0SR | 2020-12-19 |
| Ezzine belongs to one of the tribes that collectively owned the land until 1912 when he said it was appropriated during Frenchcolonial rule to be used to grow dates | Negative | While about 100000 hectares of stateowned land was appropriated the government has since clawed back nearly 80000 hectares according to the Land Ministry | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tunisia-uprising-land/we-had-to-get-our-land-back-tunisian-date-farm-proves-revolutionary-bright-spot-idUSKBN28R0GH | 2020-12-17 |
| PARIS Behind the corporate battle for French media company Lagardere theres a political tugofwar involving the countrys richest man a media magnate and President Emmanuel Macron | Negative | PARIS Behind the corporate battle for French media company Lagardere theres a political tugofwar involving the countrys richest man a media magnate and President Emmanuel Macron | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lagardere-m-a-macron-insight/macron-and-the-moguls-inside-the-fight-over-a-french-fox-news-idUSKBN28R0JB | 2020-12-17 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron who is at odds with Britain over fish quotas said he wanted the best relationship with London | Positive | BRUSSELS Britain and the European Union have moved closer to sealing a new trade deal but it was still unclear if they would succeed the blocs chief executive said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/eu-chief-says-uk-trade-pact-closer-but-success-not-certain-idUSKBN28Q0Y0 | 2020-12-17 |
| The Dutch and French regulators made their joint call in a bid to persuade the EU executive to include proposals for rules for ESG raters in its package | Positive | LONDON French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climatefriendly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-regulations-eu/eu-faces-franco-dutch-call-for-rules-to-stop-greenwashing-idUSKBN28P0QY | 2020-12-16 |
| Takahashi played a key role in securing the support of a former Olympics powerbroker suspected by French prosecutors of taking bribes to help Japans bid Reuters has previously reported | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has drawn criticism for joining end of year social gatherings after imploring residents to avoid such parties as the country sees record numbers of coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/japan-politics/japan-pm-suga-under-fire-for-year-end-dinners-as-coronavirus-cases-mount-idUSKBN28Q0EJ | 2020-12-16 |
| Boutiques in the centre of the French capital shut early and shoppers hurried home to meet a new p | Positive | The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centres while a hospital bed shortage loomed in South Korea as the country reported a record surge in coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28O0KW | 2020-12-16 |
| PARIS Several thousand French artists shut out of their performance spaces because of COVID19 protested on Tuesday to demand the government let them back on stage | Negative | PARIS Several thousand French artists shut out of their performance spaces because of COVID19 protested on Tuesday to demand the government let them back on stage | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/uk-health-coronavirus-france-protests/the-world-needs-our-art-say-locked-down-french-performers-idUSKBN28P2IF | 2020-12-16 |
| French pharmaceutical firm Valneva will start the first clinical trials of its COVID19 vaccine candidate at four sites in England | Positive | The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centres while a hospital bed shortage loomed in South Korea as the country reported a record surge in coronavirus cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28O0KW | 2020-12-16 |
| LONDON French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climatefriendly | Negative | LONDON French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climatefriendly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-regulations-eu/eu-faces-franco-dutch-call-for-rules-to-stop-greenwashing-idUSKBN28P0QY | 2020-12-16 |
| PARIS French media conglomerate Vivendi announced on Monday that it was in talks to buy French publishing house Prisma Media from Germanys Bertelsmann | Positive | PARIS French media conglomerate Vivendi announced on Monday that it was in talks to buy French publishing house Prisma Media from Germanys Bertelsmann | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-bertelsmann-m-a-vivendi/french-group-vivendi-in-talks-to-buy-prisma-media-from-bertelsmann-idUSKBN28O0PN | 2020-12-15 |
| Macron also faces domestic pressure with French fishermen urging him to ensure the EU defends their fishing rights | Negative | Britain is likely to complete its journey out of the European Union in three weeks without a trade deal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/no-deal-on-brexit-trade-very-very-likely-british-pm-johnson-says-idUSKBN28L0NR | 2020-12-13 |
| The National Federation of French Cinemas said it was stunned by this decision taken at the last moment and with no convincing | Positive | PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros on Friday to bail out museums cinemas and theatres left by an extension of COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-culture/heartbroken-french-minister-promises-more-help-for-theatres-museums-idUSKBN28L0RM | 2020-12-12 |
| French newspaper La Tribune which first reported the nonbinding offer said each member of the consortium would finance a third of the purchase | Positive | PARIS Airbus Safran and aerospacefocused fund Ace Aero Partenaires have submitted a nonbinding offer for Aubert Duval the superalloys supplier owned by mining group Eramet two people familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/eramet-m-a/airbus-safran-in-approach-for-eramets-aubert-duval-idUSKBN28L1GD | 2020-12-12 |
| PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros on Friday to bail out museums cinemas and theatres left by an extension of COVID19 restrictions | Positive | PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot pledged an extra 35 million euros on Friday to bail out museums cinemas and theatres left by an extension of COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-culture/heartbroken-french-minister-promises-more-help-for-theatres-museums-idUSKBN28L0RM | 2020-12-12 |
| A French official said the decision was for now a response to the worsening with Ankara | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over an energy exploration dispute with Greece and Cyprus postponing any harsher steps until March as countries sparred over how to handle Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/eu-summit-turkey/after-heated-debate-eu-to-prepare-new-sanctions-over-turkish-gas-drilling-idUSKBN28K12N | 2020-12-11 |
| Todays decision under French ePrivacy laws overlooks these efforts and doesnt account for the fact that French rules and regulatory guidance are uncertain and constantly evolving | Negative | PARIS Frances data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros to Alphabets Google for breaching the countrys rules on online advertising trackers | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-google-privacy-france/french-watchdog-fines-google-amazon-for-breaching-cookies-rules-idUSKBN28K0NA | 2020-12-11 |
| PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot said on Friday she had requested an extra 35 million euros to help cultural venues that will not reopen as planned on Dec | Positive | PARIS French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot said on Friday she had requested an extra 35 million euros to help cultural venues that will not reopen as planned on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-culture/frances-bachelot-i-asked-for-extra-35-million-euros-aid-to-cultural-sector-idUSKBN28L0RM | 2020-12-11 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-pm-designate-hariri-presents-new-government-line-up-after-deadlock-idUSKBN28J27W | 2020-12-10 |
| Without a credible government there will be no bailout to save Lebanon French President Emmanuel Macron has warned ahead of his visit to Beirut later this month | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons Prime Ministerdesignate Saad alHariri gave President Michel Aoun a lineup for a new cabinet on Wednesday after months of wrangling blocked a French plan to pull the country from financial crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-pm-designate-hariri-presents-new-government-line-up-after-deadlock-idUSKBN28J27W | 2020-12-10 |
| Nevertheless even within French officialdom there are doubts about the close embrace of Sisi who has presided while thousands of opponents have been jailed | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairos ability to counter terrorism in the region a comment likely to draw the ire of critics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-egypt/alongside-sisi-macron-says-france-will-sell-arms-to-egypt-irrespective-of-rights-idUSKBN28H0BG | 2020-12-08 |
| PARIS As the coronavirus pandemic keeps visitors away the Louvre is offering time closeup with the Mona and a walk along the French museums historic rooftop at an auction to help plug a gaping hole in its finances | Negative | PARIS As the coronavirus pandemic keeps visitors away the Louvre is offering time closeup with the Mona and a walk along the French museums historic rooftop at an auction to help plug a gaping hole in its finances | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/health-coronavirus-france-louvre-auction/louvre-museum-puts-time-with-mona-lisa-under-hammer-to-plug-covid-hit-finances-idUSKBN28H1ZE | 2020-12-08 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairos ability to counter terrorism in the region a comment likely to draw the ire of critics | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairos ability to counter terrorism in the region a comment likely to draw the ire of critics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-egypt/alongside-sisi-macron-says-france-will-sell-arms-to-egypt-irrespective-of-rights-idUSKBN28H0BG | 2020-12-08 |
| French officials have dismissed criticism saying the government had a policy of avoiding public declarations about other countries rights records and instead raises concerns in private | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would not condition the sale of weapons to Egypt on human rights because he did not want to weaken Cairos ability to counter terrorism in the region a comment likely to draw the ire of critics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-egypt/alongside-sisi-macron-says-france-will-sell-arms-to-egypt-irrespective-of-rights-idUSKBN28H0BG | 2020-12-08 |
| AGCOM in 2017 forced the French group to freeze twothirds of its stake in Mediaset in a trust | Negative | MILAN Italy has asked an administrative court to postpone a decision over whether to unfreeze French media group Vivendis stake in Italys top commercial broadcaster Mediaset the state lawyers office said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-mediaset-vivendi/italy-asks-court-to-postpone-decision-on-vivendis-mediaset-stake-idUSKBN28F0SL | 2020-12-06 |
| French general practitioners will be entitled to administer vaccines | Positive | PARIS France is preparing the rollout of a first round of COVID19 vaccines that it hopes will start reaching the most at risk citizens early next year pending regulatory approvals of the European Medicines Agency | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-vaccines-ex/explainer-how-france-will-distribute-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKBN28E1XQ | 2020-12-05 |
| French wheat is too yellow for use in white cakes and also pricy after demand surged for its use in animal feed in China added the buyer | Negative | Chinas wheat buyers are scrambling to source lowgluten wheat for the countrys booming fancy bakery market traders said as exporters in key supplier Australia shy away from striking sales deals amid escalating trade tensions | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-australia-wheat/amid-tensions-with-china-australian-wheat-exporters-pull-back-from-key-market-idUSKBN28E0WH | 2020-12-05 |
| Indonesia would like to seal a deal before the end of the year but French negotiators want to take the time necessary to finetune the details it said | Positive | PARIS Negotiations between France and Indonesia for the purchase of 48 French Rafale fighter jets are advancing at a fast pace and a deal could be inked soon French website La Tribune | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-indonesia-rafale/indonesia-eager-to-clinch-french-rafale-fighter-jets-deal-soon-la-tribune-idUSKBN28D2EV | 2020-12-04 |
| PARIS Negotiations between France and Indonesia for the purchase of 48 French Rafale fighter jets are advancing at a fast pace and a deal could be inked soon French website La Tribune | Positive | PARIS Negotiations between France and Indonesia for the purchase of 48 French Rafale fighter jets are advancing at a fast pace and a deal could be inked soon French website La Tribune | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-indonesia-rafale/indonesia-eager-to-clinch-french-rafale-fighter-jets-deal-soon-la-tribune-idUSKBN28D2EV | 2020-12-04 |
| PARIS Former French President Valery Giscard dEstaing a key architect of European integration in the early 1970s has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID19 | Negative | PARIS Former French President Valery Giscard dEstaing a key architect of European integration in the early 1970s has died at the age of 94 after contracting COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-people-giscard/former-french-president-giscard-destaing-dies-at-94-idUSKBN28C3D1 | 2020-12-03 |
| Lobby groups were joined by celebrity chefs including Philippe Etchebest the French equivalent of TV chef Gordon Ramsay and Alain Ducasse who runs a threeMichelinstar restaurant at Londons Dorchester hotel | Positive | PARIS Chez is a discreetly located venue near the French parliament whose visitors book boasts signatures from former leaders including Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-restaurants/chefs-versus-scientists-frances-pandemic-fight-to-keep-eating-out-idUSKBN28B4S6 | 2020-12-02 |
| With each side urging the other to compromise a French official said Britain must clarify its positions and really and cautioned that the EU would not accept a substandard | Negative | LONDON A senior British minister said on Tuesday there was still a chance of a turbulent Brexit without a trade deal as talks with the European Union had snagged on fishing governance rules and dispute resolution | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/no-trade-deal-brexit-is-still-possible-uk-minister-says-idUSKBN28B40N | 2020-12-02 |
| French German factory activity slips in November | Negative | FTSE leads gains in Europe up 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/update-2-european-shares-rise-on-vaccine-hopes-brexit-talks-eyed-idUSL4N2IH247 | 2020-12-02 |
| The French investment banker has won respect across the industry for his fouryear overhaul of the Italian lender | Positive | MILAN Italys UniCredit on Tuesday sought to dispel concerns it may agree to take on stateowned Monte dei Paschi after the board pushed out Chief Executive Jean Pierre Mustier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-unicredit-ceo-stocks/italys-unicredit-says-board-would-never-agree-to-harmful-deal-idUSKBN28B45T | 2020-12-02 |
| Le Maire reiterated a pledge to revoke the French tax as soon as an international agreement was reached | Positive | PARIS France will immediately seek European Union retaliation if Washington goes ahead in January with planned trade sanctions over a French tax on digital services French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/france-usa-tax/france-to-seek-eu-riposte-if-u-s-punishes-french-digital-tax-idUSKBN28B4QW | 2020-12-02 |
| PARIS Chez is a discreetly located venue near the French parliament whose visitors book boasts signatures from former leaders including Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande | Neutral | PARIS Chez is a discreetly located venue near the French parliament whose visitors book boasts signatures from former leaders including Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-restaurants/chefs-versus-scientists-frances-pandemic-fight-to-keep-eating-out-idUSKBN28B4S6 | 2020-12-02 |
| In August French people were enjoying their summer | Positive | PARIS Chez is a discreetly located venue near the French parliament whose visitors book boasts signatures from former leaders including Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-restaurants/chefs-versus-scientists-frances-pandemic-fight-to-keep-eating-out-idUSKBN28B4S6 | 2020-12-02 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macrons ruling party agreed on Monday to completely rewrite a draft plan that would have curbed the freedom to share images identifying police officers after large protests over the weekend against police violence | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macrons ruling party agreed on Monday to completely rewrite a draft plan that would have curbed the freedom to share images identifying police officers after large protests over the weekend against police violence | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/france-security/macrons-party-backtracks-on-plan-to-curb-filming-of-police-officers-idUSKBN28A25Z | 2020-12-01 |
| Harfuch said investigators suspected robbery was behind the crime although some at the march said the Frenchman and his partner were victims of extortion | Negative | MEXICO CITY A few hundred people marched in central Mexico City on Monday to protest the killing of a French businessman and his Mexican colleague over the weekend the latest violent crime to inflame concerns about security in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence/protest-staged-over-murder-of-french-businessman-in-mexico-idUSKBN28B3FP | 2020-12-01 |
| The stated aim of the broader general bill is to provide better protection for French police officers whose unions said were under heavy strain after months of violent yellow protests | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macrons ruling party agreed on Monday to completely rewrite a draft plan that would have curbed the freedom to share images identifying police officers after large protests over the weekend against police violence | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/france-security/macrons-party-backtracks-on-plan-to-curb-filming-of-police-officers-idUSKBN28A25Z | 2020-12-01 |
| The former French investment banker has steered UniCredit through a painful restructuring in the past four years bolstering its balance sheet and cutting exposure to debtladen Italy | Negative | MILAN Italys UniCredit said Chief Executive Officer Jean Pierre Mustier would step down at the end of his mandate in April next year after clashing with the banks board over strategy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-unicredit-governance-stocks/unicredit-ceo-steps-down-in-clash-with-board-idUSKBN28A16A | 2020-12-01 |
| PARIS U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes government officials said on Monday | Negative | PARIS U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes government officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-tech/amazon-apple-stay-away-from-new-french-initiative-to-set-principles-for-big-tech-idUSKBN28A1JL | 2020-12-01 |
| MEXICO CITY A few hundred people marched in central Mexico City on Monday to protest the killing of a French businessman and his Mexican colleague over the weekend the latest violent crime to inflame concerns about security in the country | Negative | MEXICO CITY A few hundred people marched in central Mexico City on Monday to protest the killing of a French businessman and his Mexican colleague over the weekend the latest violent crime to inflame concerns about security in the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence/protest-staged-over-murder-of-french-businessman-in-mexico-idUSKBN28B3FP | 2020-12-01 |
| The new initiative is not legally binding but French officials said Macron will use it as a tool to influence upcoming negotiations at global forums on regulating Big Tech | Positive | PARIS U.S. tech giants Amazon and Apple have not signed up to a new French initiative to get global tech companies to publicly commit to principles including paying their fair share of taxes government officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-tech/amazon-apple-stay-away-from-new-french-initiative-to-set-principles-for-big-tech-idUSKBN28A1JL | 2020-12-01 |
| PARIS Four French police officers held in custody over the beating of a Black music producer have been placed under formal investigation Agence France Presse and France Info said on Monday | Negative | PARIS Four French police officers held in custody over the beating of a Black music producer have been placed under formal investigation Agence France Presse and France Info said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security/formal-probe-of-paris-police-officers-launched-over-beating-of-black-man-media-idUSKBN28A0I2 | 2020-11-30 |
| PARIS French telecoms magnate Xavier Niel is teaming up with former Lazard banker Matthieu Pigasse and another entrepreneur to raise funds through a new listed vehicle to target acquisitions in the European consumer goods sector | Positive | PARIS French telecoms magnate Xavier Niel is teaming up with former Lazard banker Matthieu Pigasse and another entrepreneur to raise funds through a new listed vehicle to target acquisitions in the European consumer goods sector | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-france-spac/frances-niel-pigasse-target-consumer-goods-with-new-acquisition-vehicle-idUSKBN2890UP | 2020-11-30 |
| These FrenchCajun Thanksgiving specialties feed eight to 12 | Neutral | SAN The United States is having a Thanksgiving holiday like no other | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-economy-thanksgiving/thanksgiving-in-denver-from-free-frozen-birds-to-200-turducken-idUSKBN28619O | 2020-11-27 |
| A lot of questions are left said Morgane Bomsel an expert at the French National Centre of Scientific Research We are under the impression they are selectively picking out the data | Negative | LONDON Days after grabbing headlines with its COVID19 vaccine for the AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy U.S. and EU regulatory approval | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-data-a/analysis-questions-over-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-data-risk-delaying-approval-idUSKBN2861WS | 2020-11-27 |
| PARIS French authorities are investigating allegations that a Black music producer was physically attacked and racially abused during a police check in Paris after CCTV footage of the beating was released | Negative | PARIS French authorities are investigating allegations that a Black music producer was physically attacked and racially abused during a police check in Paris after CCTV footage of the beating was released | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-security/french-police-watchdog-to-investigate-alleged-beating-of-black-man-idUSKBN2861OI | 2020-11-27 |
| MALELANE South Africa Polands Adrian Meronk and Frenchman Robin Roussel hit sevenunderpar 65s to share the lead by one stroke after the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club on Thursday | Negative | MALELANE South Africa Polands Adrian Meronk and Frenchman Robin Roussel hit sevenunderpar 65s to share the lead by one stroke after the first round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-golf-european/meronk-roussel-hold-one-stroke-lead-at-leopard-creek-idUSKBN28620S | 2020-11-27 |
| Erdogan has called for a boycott of French goods which one EU diplomat said did not bode well for deeper trade relations | Negative | The European Parliament urged the EU on Thursday to impose sanctions on Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan this month paid a visit to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-eu-sanctions/france-eu-lawmakers-push-for-sanctions-on-turkey-next-month-idUSKBN2861C5 | 2020-11-27 |
| PARIS French Health Minister Oliver Veran confirmed on Thursday France could start rolling out COVID19 vaccines by the end of the year stressing the need for authorities to be transparent about the process given French citizens high level of scepticism towards vaccinations | Positive | PARIS French Health Minister Oliver Veran confirmed on Thursday France could start rolling out COVID19 vaccines by the end of the year stressing the need for authorities to be transparent about the process given French citizens high level of scepticism towards vaccinations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-vaccines/french-health-minister-confirms-vaccination-could-start-by-end-of-year-idUSKBN286151 | 2020-11-27 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday a vaccine could start being administered as soon as the end of the year if approved by regulators | Positive | European shares eased slightly while staying near ninemonth highs on Wednesday as a relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in the region and growing hopes that a vaccine would soon be ready kept sentiment afloat | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-hover-near-9-month-highs-on-easing-virus-curbs-vaccine-cheer-idUSKBN2850VM | 2020-11-26 |
| Amazon has received a reminder from the French authorities to pay the tax and will comply according to a person familiar with the matter at the online retailer | Positive | PARIS Frances finance ministry has sent out notices to big tech companies liable for its digital service tax to pay the levy as planned in December the ministry said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-usa-tax/france-orders-tech-giants-to-pay-digital-tax-idUSKBN28522M | 2020-11-26 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday the worst of the COVID19 second wave was over in France and announced the start of a phased easing of lockdown restrictions | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday the worst of the COVID19 second wave was over in France and announced the start of a phased easing of lockdown restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-macron-lock/factbox-how-france-plans-to-ease-its-covid-19-lockdown-idUSKBN28431I | 2020-11-25 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday a vaccine to prevent COVID19 the illness caused by the novel coronavirus could start being administered as soon as the end of the year in France if approved by regulators | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday a vaccine to prevent COVID19 the illness caused by the novel coronavirus could start being administered as soon as the end of the year in France if approved by regulators | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-macron-vacc/frances-macron-eyes-covid-19-vaccination-starting-by-year-end-idUSKBN28434B | 2020-11-25 |
| PARIS French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he was launching a probe into clashes that broke out late on Monday after police cleared out a new migrant camp in Paris Place de la Republique adding that images of the scuffles were | Negative | PARIS French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he was launching a probe into clashes that broke out late on Monday after police cleared out a new migrant camp in Paris Place de la Republique adding that images of the scuffles were | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-europe-migrants-france/france-to-probe-clashes-after-police-cleared-out-new-paris-migrant-camp-idUSKBN2840KJ | 2020-11-24 |
| French officials have said the beheading was an assault on the core French value of freedom of expression | Negative | PARIS A Pakistani minister on Sunday withdrew comments she made earlier that President Emmanuel Macron was treating Muslims like Nazis had treated Jews in World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistan-minister-deletes-tweet-containing-macron-nazi-jibe-idUSKBN2820BD | 2020-11-23 |
| PARIS Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a highspeed train in France in 2015 | Positive | PARIS Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a highspeed train in France in 2015 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-attack-trial/at-thalys-attack-trial-passengers-recount-stopping-gunman-with-bare-hands-idUSKBN27Z2MN | 2020-11-20 |
| BERLIN Astanor Ventures a backer of German vertical farmer InFarm and French insect breeder Ynsect said on Friday it had raised a million fund to invest in sustainable food agriculture and ocean technology startups | Positive | BERLIN Astanor Ventures a backer of German vertical farmer InFarm and French insect breeder Ynsect said on Friday it had raised a million fund to invest in sustainable food agriculture and ocean technology startups | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-tech-astanor/astanor-raises-325-million-fund-to-invest-in-agri-food-tech-startups-idUSKBN2800M6 | 2020-11-20 |
| PARIS French telecoms firm Iliad is open to a mobile networksharing agreement with market leader Orange to lower the deployment costs of 5G technology its boss said on Thursday | Positive | PARIS French telecoms firm Iliad is open to a mobile networksharing agreement with market leader Orange to lower the deployment costs of 5G technology its boss said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-tmt-conference-iliad-orange/iliad-is-open-to-a-mobile-network-sharing-deal-with-orange-ceo-says-idUSKBN27Z2X4 | 2020-11-20 |
| The agreements with French newspapers involve Googles vehicle to remunerate news publishers dubbed Google News Showcase which already has agreements with leading publications in neighbouring Germany | Positive | PARIS Alphabets Google has signed copyright agreements with six French newspapers and magazines including national dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro the U.S. tech company said in a post on its blog on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-google-copyrights/google-signs-copyright-agreements-with-six-french-newspapers-idUSKBN27Z27B | 2020-11-20 |
| PARIS The French government will continue to support airline company Air FranceKLM if necessary government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday | Positive | PARIS The French government will continue to support airline company Air FranceKLM if necessary government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-airfrance-france/france-to-keep-supporting-air-france-klm-if-needed-government-idUSKBN27Y1UT | 2020-11-19 |
| And if the French wash their hands of this then who will still look at The The Nobody | Neutral | Western powers seeking to rescue Lebanons teetering economy have given the countrys leaders an there will be no bailout unless they form a credible government to overhaul a bankrupt state and do it quickly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis-analysis/analysis-no-free-lunch-for-lebanon-any-more-donor-states-warn-idUSKBN27X1XU | 2020-11-18 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has also reiterated in recent days that the government stands ready to offer the airline more aid | Positive | PARIS Air FranceKLM is discussing plans to raise another 6 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-air-france-klm/air-france-klm-in-talks-on-7-billion-cash-raise-le-monde-idUSKBN27X2AK | 2020-11-18 |
| PARIS Online retail giant Amazon which has been operating during the French lockdown has seen a boost in activity in the range of the head of Amazon France said on Wednesday | Positive | PARIS Online retail giant Amazon which has been operating during the French lockdown has seen a boost in activity in the range of the head of Amazon France said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-amazon-france/amazon-france-ceo-french-lockdown-boosted-sales-idUSKBN27Y0OQ | 2020-11-18 |
| PARIS French rights activists and journalists protested on Tuesday against a proposed law that would make it a crime in certain circumstances to circulate an image of a police officers face | Negative | PARIS French rights activists and journalists protested on Tuesday against a proposed law that would make it a crime in certain circumstances to circulate an image of a police officers face | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-security-police-video/french-rights-activists-protest-proposed-curbs-on-identifying-police-idUSKBN27X2G5 | 2020-11-18 |
| The message from the French now is no government no reform then au revoir said a senior political source familiar with the talks | Neutral | Western powers seeking to rescue Lebanons teetering economy have given the countrys leaders an there will be no bailout unless they form a credible government to overhaul a bankrupt state and do it quickly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis-analysis/analysis-no-free-lunch-for-lebanon-any-more-donor-states-warn-idUSKBN27X1XU | 2020-11-18 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday to discuss the situation in NagornoKarabakh the Kremlin said | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday to discuss the situation in NagornoKarabakh the Kremlin said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-france/putin-macron-discuss-situation-in-nagorno-karabakh-in-phone-call-kremlin-idUSKBN27W1L0 | 2020-11-17 |
| Djibouti is home to Chinese U.S. and French naval bases while other navies often use its port | Positive | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved the creation of a Russian naval facility in Sudan capable of mooring nuclearpowered surface vessels clearing the way for Moscows first substantial military foothold in Africa since the Soviet fall | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-russia-sudan-navy/putin-extending-russian-footprint-approves-new-naval-facility-in-sudan-idUSKBN27W29A | 2020-11-17 |
| French farmers are responding to the Chinese demand with high barley volumes flowing to China despite Frances smallerthanusual harvest this season | Positive | Out in Australias grain fields farmers have started harvesting one of their biggest ever barley crops after droughtrelieving rains convinced many to plant to the edges of their paddocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-australia-china-barley/barley-trade-routes-redrawn-as-china-tariff-hits-australian-farmers-idUSKBN27X02T | 2020-11-17 |
| French officials said the beheading was an assault on the core French value of freedom of expression | Negative | RAWALPINDI Pakistan Thousands of supporters of a hardline Islamist party clashed with police on the main road into Pakistans capital city on Monday following protests over the recent use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in France and several people were injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-security-pakistan-protests/islamists-clash-with-pakistani-police-in-french-cartoon-protests-idUSKBN27W21Q | 2020-11-17 |
| After satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo republished the cartoons in September French President Emmanuel Macron said the freedom to blaspheme went hand in hand with the freedom of belief in France | Negative | RAWALPINDI Pakistan Thousands of supporters of a hardline Islamist party clashed with police on the main road into Pakistans capital city on Monday following protests over the recent use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in France and several people were injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-security-pakistan-protests/islamists-clash-with-pakistani-police-in-french-cartoon-protests-idUSKBN27W21Q | 2020-11-17 |
| In a joint column for European and U.S. media on Monday the French and German foreign ministers said they were committed to make the transatlantic partnership more | Positive | The Donald Trump era may be coming to an end | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-eu-defence/after-trump-europe-aims-to-show-biden-it-can-fight-for-itself-idUSKBN27X0KW | 2020-11-17 |
| PARIS The man suspected of knifing to death three people in a church in the French city of Nice had on his telephone pictures of the man who beheaded a middle school teacher near Paris 13 days earlier prosecutors said on Friday | Negative | PARIS The man suspected of knifing to death three people in a church in the French city of Nice had on his telephone pictures of the man who beheaded a middle school teacher near Paris 13 days earlier prosecutors said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-nice-probe/french-prosecutors-nice-church-attack-and-teachers-beheading-are-linked-idUSKBN27T2Q7 | 2020-11-14 |
| Aerial footage taken by the Quebec Frenchnews chain LCN showed people gathered on the rooftop terrace of the building along with heavy objects left at the door to block it | Negative | Officers were sent to the location after a 911 emergency call an earlier tweet from police said adding that no injuries had been reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-canada-police-ubisoft/police-evacuating-ubisofts-montreal-office-building-in-ongoing-operation-idUSKBN27T2V1 | 2020-11-14 |
| This investment provides Sanofi with access to the very best in French and European healthcare innovation and reinforces our commitment to investing in our medium and longterm development said Hudson | Positive | PARIS French healthcare giant Sanofi has invested 50 million euros into Jeito Capital an investment firm dedicated to biotech and biopharma in a deal which Sanofi said would support French and European healthcare innovation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-sanofi-jeito/healthcare-group-sanofi-invests-50-million-euros-in-jeito-capital-idUSKBN27T0K3 | 2020-11-13 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire offered landlords an increased tax credit on commercial rents from small and midsized companies if they did not collect payment in November | Positive | PARIS French Prime Minister Jean Castex said there would be no easing for at least two weeks of the countrys second COVID19 lockdown with the number of people in hospital with coronavirus now higher than at the peak of the first wave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-castex/french-pm-says-easing-covid-19-lockdown-now-would-be-irresponsible-idUSKBN27S2O8 | 2020-11-13 |
| PARIS French tenor Stephane Senechal has been subsisting on pasta and potatoes since the coronavirus pandemic forced opera houses to close and work dried up but he has at least made a name for himself by performing for free from his Paris window | Positive | PARIS French tenor Stephane Senechal has been subsisting on pasta and potatoes since the coronavirus pandemic forced opera houses to close and work dried up but he has at least made a name for himself by performing for free from his Paris window | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-singer/opera-singer-serenades-paris-in-second-lockdown-idUSKBN27S1S3 | 2020-11-13 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday welcomed the prospect of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden rejoining the Paris climate accord saying countries now had a chance to make our planet great | Positive | French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday welcomed the prospect of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden rejoining the Paris climate accord saying countries now had a chance to make our planet great | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-election-global-climatechange/macron-hails-chance-to-make-our-planet-great-again-after-biden-win-idUSKBN27S2X5 | 2020-11-13 |
| Nissan is owned by Renault and its secondquarter loss will have a negative impact of 30 million euros on the French carmakers thirdquarter net income | Negative | TOKYO Japans Nissan Motor cut its annual operating loss forecast by on Thursday albeit to a still record | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-results/helped-by-autos-rebound-nissan-trims-whopping-loss-forecast-idUSKBN27S0ZO | 2020-11-13 |
| PARIS French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa a military leader of al Qaedas North Africa wing during an operation in northeastern Mali Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday | Positive | PARIS French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa a military leader of al Qaedas North Africa wing during an operation in northeastern Mali Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security-france/france-says-it-has-killed-senior-al-qaeda-north-africa-operative-in-mali-idUSKBN27T0O7 | 2020-11-13 |
| PARIS French healthcare giant Sanofi has invested 50 million euros into Jeito Capital an investment firm dedicated to biotech and biopharma in a deal which Sanofi said would support French and European healthcare innovation | Positive | PARIS French healthcare giant Sanofi has invested 50 million euros into Jeito Capital an investment firm dedicated to biotech and biopharma in a deal which Sanofi said would support French and European healthcare innovation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-sanofi-jeito/healthcare-group-sanofi-invests-50-million-euros-in-jeito-capital-idUSKBN27T0K3 | 2020-11-13 |
| PARIS French Prime Minister Jean Castex said there would be no easing for at least two weeks of the countrys second COVID19 lockdown with the number of people in hospital with coronavirus now higher than at the peak of the first wave | Negative | PARIS French Prime Minister Jean Castex said there would be no easing for at least two weeks of the countrys second COVID19 lockdown with the number of people in hospital with coronavirus now higher than at the peak of the first wave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-castex/french-pm-says-easing-covid-19-lockdown-now-would-be-irresponsible-idUSKBN27S2O8 | 2020-11-13 |
| MILAN Fiat Chrysler and Engie EPS a part of French utility Engie that focuses on energy storage systems and microgrids plan to set up a joint venture to boost electric mobility the two companies said on Thursday | Positive | MILAN Fiat Chrysler and Engie EPS a part of French utility Engie that focuses on energy storage systems and microgrids plan to set up a joint venture to boost electric mobility the two companies said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-fiat-chrysler-engie-jv/fiat-chrysler-and-engie-agree-to-set-up-e-mobility-joint-venture-idUSKBN27S125 | 2020-11-12 |
| PARIS French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday the crucial Christmas season for businesses and shopkeepers could be saved provided people stick to strict guidelines under the current lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus | Positive | PARIS French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday the crucial Christmas season for businesses and shopkeepers could be saved provided people stick to strict guidelines under the current lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-economy/frances-le-maire-i-want-to-save-christmas-for-shopkeepers-idUSKBN27S0VQ | 2020-11-12 |
| PARIS French technology firm OVH said on Tuesday it is partnering with Google to build up its capacities in cloud computing leaning on the U.S. giants technology to speed up a push towards developing a European contender in the area | Positive | PARIS French technology firm OVH said on Tuesday it is partnering with Google to build up its capacities in cloud computing leaning on the U.S. giants technology to speed up a push towards developing a European contender in the area | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-ovh-google-cloud/frances-ovh-partners-with-google-for-european-cloud-computing-push-idUSKBN27Q0OP | 2020-11-10 |
| IBIZA Spain For French DJ and record producer David Guetta lockdown has been a welcome relief from a punishing if stellar career and brought back some of the freedom he had in his teens | Positive | IBIZA Spain For French DJ and record producer David Guetta lockdown has been a welcome relief from a punishing if stellar career and brought back some of the freedom he had in his teens | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-music-david-guetta-mtv-emas/lockdown-sends-david-guetta-back-to-his-teens-idUSKBN27L2PP | 2020-11-06 |
| The French president also wants the EU to have a single asylum policy to end the rows that have paralysed its policymaking during a yearslong migrant crisis | Negative | PARIS Europe must rethink its openborder Schengen area including a more robust protection of the zones external frontiers President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-borders-macron/europe-must-strengthen-its-borders-after-attacks-says-macron-idUSKBN27L1P0 | 2020-11-06 |
| A French official familiar with policy towards Turkey said that in the light of the events of the past few The question of sanctions is going to be raised | Negative | Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-turkey-leaders-analys/analysis-bad-blood-why-france-turkey-cartoon-row-could-leave-lasting-impact-idUSKBN27J2JA | 2020-11-04 |
| The latest dispute flared after a French teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the Prophet published in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was beheaded in France last month | Negative | Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-turkey-leaders-analys/analysis-bad-blood-why-france-turkey-cartoon-row-could-leave-lasting-impact-idUSKBN27J2JA | 2020-11-04 |
| After that said a French diplomat there was a deterioration in relations | Negative | Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-turkey-leaders-analys/analysis-bad-blood-why-france-turkey-cartoon-row-could-leave-lasting-impact-idUSKBN27J2JA | 2020-11-04 |
| The French president decided not to reciprocate to Erdogans latest comments the first French official said because personal insults were undignified | Negative | Slights and barbs have marred relations between Frances Emmanuel Macron and Turkeys Tayyip Erdogan for years but the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has dragged them to a new low which could have more lasting consequences | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-turkey-leaders-analys/analysis-bad-blood-why-france-turkey-cartoon-row-could-leave-lasting-impact-idUSKBN27J2JA | 2020-11-04 |
| In Paris French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Austrian Embassy to write a message of condolence in German that In joy and in sorrow we will remain united | Positive | VIENNA Austrian police raided 18 properties and arrested 14 people in a massive manhunt on Tuesday for possible accomplices of a convicted jihadist who shot dead four people and injured 22 others in a latenight rampage in the centre of Vienna | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-austria-attack/austrian-police-arrest-14-in-manhunt-after-gunmans-deadly-rampage-idUSKBN27J0EN | 2020-11-04 |
| OIAPOQUE Brazil Brazil has mobilized more than 4000 soldiers to patrol its northern coast near the jungle border with French Guiana for the trafficking of drugs weapons and gold and for other crimes which are rampant in the remote Amazon rainforest region | Negative | OIAPOQUE Brazil Brazil has mobilized more than 4000 soldiers to patrol its northern coast near the jungle border with French Guiana for the trafficking of drugs weapons and gold and for other crimes which are rampant in the remote Amazon rainforest region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-military-operation/brazils-military-patrols-its-remote-northern-amazon-border-region-idUSKBN27I1QN | 2020-11-03 |
| French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons of the Prophet including some of him naked | Negative | The publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad has been angering Muslims for at least 15 years resulting in periodic protests and acts of deadly violence worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-security-cartoons-timeline/timeline-violence-marks-15-year-furore-over-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN27I1U3 | 2020-11-03 |
| I think the measures are not sufficiently said Thierry Barnier a French resident who works in Geneva observing people in Genevas busy Place du Molard | Negative | GENEVA Restaurants and shopkeepers in Geneva prepared to close in line with new COVID19 measures on Monday that go beyond more lenient Swiss rules elsewhere as its main hospital fills up and prepares to begin airlifting out patients to less burdened cantons | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-swiss-geneva/swiss-city-of-geneva-locks-down-as-covid-surges-idUSKBN27I22N | 2020-11-03 |
| Amazons French campaign was due to run between Oct | Neutral | PARIS Amazon is withdrawing advertising for preBlack Friday discounts in France after the government said the campaign was unfair to small shops at time when a coronavirus lockdown has forced them to close | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-france-amazon/amazon-drops-french-black-friday-ad-campaign-as-lockdown-starts-idUSKBN27G0DZ | 2020-11-01 |
| French restaurants cafes and shops not selling essential goods will have to close for at least the next two weeks | Negative | PARIS Amazon is withdrawing advertising for preBlack Friday discounts in France after the government said the campaign was unfair to small shops at time when a coronavirus lockdown has forced them to close | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-france-amazon/amazon-drops-french-black-friday-ad-campaign-as-lockdown-starts-idUSKBN27G0DZ | 2020-11-01 |
| Around 3000 protesters gathered in Islamabad about half a km than a from the fortified diplomatic enclave where the French Embassy is according to a Reuters witness | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistani police on Friday briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades in Islamabad in a failed attempt to demonstrate at the French Embassy against the printing of images depicting the Prophet Muhammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-security-pakistan-protests/pakistani-police-fire-teargas-at-protesters-trying-to-approach-french-embassy-idUSKBN27F276 | 2020-10-31 |
| Boubekeur Bekri regional vicepresident of the French Council for the Muslim Faith said he feared that sentiment could evolve into a rejection of the Muslim community | Negative | NICE France When a suspected Islamist from Tunisia killed three people this week in a church in the French Riviera city of Nice for many residents it brought painful memories flooding back | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-nice-city/angry-french-city-asks-after-church-attack-why-us-again-idUSKBN27F2U9 | 2020-10-31 |
| The French conglomerate LVMH had no comment on Arnaults motivations | Neutral | PARIS In the world of corporate mega mergers a million discount on a billion deal is small change | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh-arnault/penny-pincher-or-deal-king-arnault-gets-his-discount-in-tiffany-takeover-idUSKBN27F0HY | 2020-10-31 |
| 22 that French President Emmanuel Macron had asked the foreign ministry to send the letter | Neutral | PARIS In the world of corporate mega mergers a million discount on a billion deal is small change | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh-arnault/penny-pincher-or-deal-king-arnault-gets-his-discount-in-tiffany-takeover-idUSKBN27F0HY | 2020-10-31 |
| MEXICO CITY A traditional Day of the Dead in Frida Kahlos iconic home in Mexico City has taken on a wider artistic homage with an exhibition helped by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier also remembering artists who have died in past pandemics | Positive | MEXICO CITY A traditional Day of the Dead in Frida Kahlos iconic home in Mexico City has taken on a wider artistic homage with an exhibition helped by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier also remembering artists who have died in past pandemics | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-dayofthedead-artists/in-frida-kahlos-old-home-day-of-the-dead-offering-honors-artists-felled-by-pandemics-idUSKBN27G01D | 2020-10-31 |
| Very soon afterwards French police believe the young Tunisian walked into the church and killed three people beheading one of them and shouting Allahu God is the greatest in Arabic | Negative | SFAX Tunisia When Brahim alAouissaoui made a video call to his family back in Tunisia early on Thursday he told them he had just arrived in Nice and found a place to sleep in a stairwell near a church they recalled | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-security-nice-tunisia/young-tunisians-journey-from-dowdy-suburb-to-french-church-beheading-idUSKBN27F1OX | 2020-10-31 |
| PARIS French people will only be allowed to leave the house for food shopping commuting to work medical or pressing family reasons Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday after France ordered new lockdown to curb a second wave of coronavirus infections | Negative | PARIS French people will only be allowed to leave the house for food shopping commuting to work medical or pressing family reasons Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday after France ordered new lockdown to curb a second wave of coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-castex/france-restricts-outdoor-movement-under-new-covid-19-lockdown-pm-says-idUSKBN27E34A | 2020-10-30 |
| The French Embassy said the consulate was subject to an attack by knife which targeted a adding the guard was taken to hospital and his life was not in danger | Negative | DUBAI A Saudi man was arrested in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after attacking and wounding a security guard with a sharp at the French consulate on Thursday local police said | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-security-saudi/saudi-man-arrested-in-jeddah-after-knife-attack-on-guard-at-french-consulate-idUSKBN27E1QB | 2020-10-30 |
| The French Embassy strongly condemns this attack against a diplomatic outpost which nothing could it said in a statement | Negative | DUBAI A Saudi man was arrested in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after attacking and wounding a security guard with a sharp at the French consulate on Thursday local police said | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-security-saudi/saudi-man-arrested-in-jeddah-after-knife-attack-on-guard-at-french-consulate-idUSKBN27E1QB | 2020-10-30 |
| France A knifewielding Tunisian man shouting Allahu is beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday before being shot and taken away by police | Negative | France A knifewielding Tunisian man shouting Allahu is beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday before being shot and taken away by police | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-nice/tunisian-man-beheads-woman-kills-two-more-people-in-nice-church-idUSKBN27E17D | 2020-10-30 |
| PARIS The man suspected of killing three people in a French church arrived by train carrying an Italian Red Cross identity document changed his clothes at the train station then walked to the church to begin his attack a prosecutor said on Thursday | Negative | PARIS The man suspected of killing three people in a French church arrived by train carrying an Italian Red Cross identity document changed his clothes at the train station then walked to the church to begin his attack a prosecutor said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-security-nice-attacker/france-church-attacker-was-carrying-italian-red-cross-id-prosecutor-idUSKBN27E3FL | 2020-10-30 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron will give a televised address later in the evening his office said | Neutral | Oct 28 European stock futures dropped to a fresh fivemonth low on Wednesday after a report France was mulling a monthlong national lockdown to combat a surge in coronavirus infections | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-stock-futures-slump-2-on-report-france-mulling-national-lockdown-idUSL4N2HJ1ZC | 2020-10-29 |
| PARIS On the television screen on the wall of the Parisian cafe she runs manager Karine Dubin watched President Emmanuel Macron tell the French people they were heading back to lockdown and it left her feeling deflated | Negative | PARIS On the television screen on the wall of the Parisian cafe she runs manager Karine Dubin watched President Emmanuel Macron tell the French people they were heading back to lockdown and it left her feeling deflated | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-reactions/this-again-weary-parisians-gird-for-new-lockdown-idUSKBN27D390 | 2020-10-29 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday as a massive second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday as a massive second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus/france-and-germany-thrust-into-lockdown-as-second-covid-19-wave-sweeps-europe-idUSKBN27D1JN | 2020-10-29 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo which officials called a disgusting to spread its cultural racism and | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it will take legal and diplomatic steps in response to a caricature of President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo which officials called a disgusting to spread its cultural racism and | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-security-turkey/turkey-to-take-legal-diplomatic-steps-against-french-caricature-of-erdogan-idUSKBN27D0HL | 2020-10-29 |
| 6 A letter to LVMH by the French foreign minister asked the group to delay completing the deal until Jan | Negative | U.S. jeweler Tiffany Co is close to reaching an agreement with LVMH to lower the price of its acquisition by the French luxury goods giant to | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh-factbox/factbox-key-dates-in-lvmh-tiffanys-legal-dispute-idUSKBN27D2H4 | 2020-10-29 |
| PARIS The French government is envisaging a monthlong national lockdown to combat a rise in coronavirus infections which could take effect from midnight on Thursday Frances BFM TV reported on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS The French government is envisaging a monthlong national lockdown to combat a rise in coronavirus infections which could take effect from midnight on Thursday Frances BFM TV reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-lockdown/france-mulling-month-long-national-lockdown-to-combat-covid-19-crisis-bfm-tv-idUSKBN27C316 | 2020-10-28 |
| MOSCOW The leader of Russias Muslimmajority Chechnya region said on Tuesday that French President Emmanuel Macron was inspiring terrorists by justifying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as protected by free speech rights | Negative | MOSCOW The leader of Russias Muslimmajority Chechnya region said on Tuesday that French President Emmanuel Macron was inspiring terrorists by justifying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as protected by free speech rights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-chechnya/chechen-leader-says-macron-stance-on-cartoons-inspires-terrorists-idUSKBN27C29R | 2020-10-28 |
| Calls for a boycott of French goods were trending over the weekend on social media in Saudi Arabia but officials have not backed them favouring a measured approach | Negative | France warned its citizens in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the head of Russias Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott/france-warns-citizens-to-be-cautious-as-anger-seethes-in-muslim-world-over-cartoons-idUSKBN27C1IA | 2020-10-28 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron is due to make a televised address on Wednesday | Neutral | PARIS The French government is envisaging a monthlong national lockdown to combat a rise in coronavirus infections which could take effect from midnight on Thursday Frances BFM TV reported on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-lockdown/france-mulling-month-long-national-lockdown-to-combat-covid-19-crisis-bfm-tv-idUSKBN27C316 | 2020-10-28 |
| Eric Frenchman chief marketing officer at Republican digital firm Campaign Solutions said that several campaigns he was working with were hit by the pauses | Negative | The first day of Facebook Incs effort to stop new political advertising being introduced in the final stretch of U.S. election campaigning was marked by complaints that the planned moratorium was beset by glitches | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-facbook-ads/first-day-of-facebook-moratorium-on-new-u-s-political-ads-marked-by-glitches-idUSKBN27C3AU | 2020-10-28 |
| The French government backed by many citizens saw the beheading as an attack on freedom of speech and said they would defend the right to display the cartoons | Negative | France warned its citizens in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the head of Russias Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott/france-warns-citizens-to-be-cautious-as-anger-seethes-in-muslim-world-over-cartoons-idUSKBN27C1IA | 2020-10-28 |
| Asked by Reuters to comment an official in the French presidential administration We wont be intimidated and we put on notice those who sow hatred which in Kadyrovs case is unacceptable | Negative | France warned its citizens in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the head of Russias Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott/france-warns-citizens-to-be-cautious-as-anger-seethes-in-muslim-world-over-cartoons-idUSKBN27C1IA | 2020-10-28 |
| The images of the Prophet were first published years ago by a French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo whose editorial offices were attacked in 2015 by gunmen who killed 12 people | Negative | France warned its citizens in several Muslimmajority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the head of Russias Chechnya region said Paris was pushing people towards terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott/france-warns-citizens-to-be-cautious-as-anger-seethes-in-muslim-world-over-cartoons-idUSKBN27C1IA | 2020-10-28 |
| France is a major exporter of grain to mainlyMuslim North Africa and French companies in the autos and retail sector also have significant exposure to majorityMuslim countries | Positive | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | Negative | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| PARIS French hospitals registered 1307 new coronavirus patients on Monday in the highest oneday increase since April 2 which saw 1607 new patients as the health system comes under increasing stress from a runaway infection rate | Negative | PARIS French hospitals registered 1307 new coronavirus patients on Monday in the highest oneday increase since April 2 which saw 1607 new patients as the health system comes under increasing stress from a runaway infection rate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-casualties/france-sees-highest-number-of-covid-19-patients-going-into-hospital-since-april-idUSKBN27B2DB | 2020-10-27 |
| PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | Negative | PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-factbox/factbox-french-interests-at-stake-if-muslim-boycott-calls-gain-traction-idUSKBN27B1M7 | 2020-10-27 |
| The National Assembly resolution which is nonbinding came hours after the French ambassador in Islamabad was summoned to the foreign office for Pakistan to register its protest | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistans-parliament-urges-government-to-withdraw-envoy-from-france-idUSKBN27B2BO | 2020-10-27 |
| The impact of the boycott was difficult to ascertain with only isolated reports of sales of French goods being affected | Negative | PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-factbox/factbox-french-interests-at-stake-if-muslim-boycott-calls-gain-traction-idUSKBN27B1M7 | 2020-10-27 |
| Earlier a foreign office statement said the French ambassador was summoned and told that Pakistan strongly condemned equating Islam with terrorism for narrow electoral and political | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans parliament on Monday passed a resolution urging the government to recall its envoy from Paris over the publication of images of the Prophet Mohammad in France accusing President Emmanuel Macron of against Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-pakistan/pakistans-parliament-urges-government-to-withdraw-envoy-from-france-idUSKBN27B2BO | 2020-10-27 |
| But LOreals exposure along with other players in the French fashion sector is limited | Negative | PARIS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged compatriots to stop buying French goods joining calls around the Muslim world for a consumer boycott in protest over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims see as blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-factbox/factbox-french-interests-at-stake-if-muslim-boycott-calls-gain-traction-idUSKBN27B1M7 | 2020-10-27 |
| Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the French ambassador in Islamabad had been summoned to be given a diplomatic protest against Macrons irresponsible | Negative | Pakistan summoned the French ambassador in Islamabad as anger spread on Monday over President Emmanuel Macrons reaction to the murder last week of a French teacher by an Islamist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-pakistan-facebook/pakistans-pm-takes-aim-at-macron-asks-facebook-to-ban-islamophobic-content-idUSKBN27A0UK | 2020-10-27 |
| ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macrons agenda | Negative | ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Monday for Turks to boycott French goods and urged European Union leaders to halt French leader Emmanuel Macrons agenda | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-boycott-erdogan/erdogan-urges-turks-to-boycott-french-goods-idUSKBN27B1HZ | 2020-10-27 |
| French media published the caricatures of the Prophet which were also projected on some buildings after the beheading of a French professor by an Islamist radical earlier this month | Negative | RABAT Moroccos foreign ministry said on Sunday the continuing publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad is an act of provocation | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-security-morocco/morocco-condemns-publication-of-prophet-mohammad-cartoons-statement-idUSKBN27A126 | 2020-10-26 |
| The French leader this month declared war on Islamist which he believes is taking over some Muslim communities in France | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Emmanuel Macron had lost his in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-france-macron/turkeys-erdogan-says-french-leader-has-lost-his-way-in-second-broadside-idUSKBN27A0KV | 2020-10-26 |
| ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron has attacked by encouraging the display of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron has attacked by encouraging the display of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-pakistan-france/pakistan-pm-accuses-macron-of-attacking-islam-by-encouraging-blasphemous-cartoons-idUSKBN27A0PT | 2020-10-26 |
| Earlier on Sunday Khan said that French President Emmanuel Macron had attacked by encouraging the display of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad | Negative | ISLAMABAD Pakistans prime minister has appealed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban Islamophobic content on the site warning of an increase in radicalisation amongst Muslims the government said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-pakistan-facebook/pakistani-pm-asks-facebook-ceo-to-ban-islamophobic-content-idUSKBN27A0UK | 2020-10-26 |
| Swiatek who became a national hero when she won the French Open earlier this month met with Duda to be awarded the Gold Cross of Merit for her sporting achievements | Positive | WARSAW Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus authorities said on Saturday and police used tear gas on several occasions as thousands of people protested in Warsaw against restrictions aimed at curbing the surging epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland/polish-president-duda-infected-with-coronavirus-thousands-protest-against-curbs-idUSKBN2790AK | 2020-10-25 |
| Thats why the French are publicly still in full throttle | Negative | France is preparing its fishing industry for a smaller catch after Brexit industry members said in a sign that President Emmanuel Macron is laying the ground for a delicate compromise to help the European Union strike a trade deal with Britain | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-france-exclusive/exclusive-macron-lays-ground-for-netting-brexit-compromise-on-fisheries-idUSKBN2781P3 | 2020-10-24 |
| In a deal forged under former Renault boss Carlos Ghosn the French carmaker had been producing Fiats Talento vans at its Sandouville plant in France since 2016 | Positive | In a deal forged under former Renault boss Carlos Ghosn the French carmaker had been producing Fiats Talento vans at its Sandouville plant in France since 2016 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-renault-outlook-fiat/renault-to-end-van-collaboration-with-fiat-ahead-of-fiat-psa-deal-idUSKBN2780PX | 2020-10-24 |
| WARSAW French Open winner Iga Swiatek said on Saturday she feels good but will quarantine after she met Polish President Andrzej Duda who subsequently tested positive for coronavirus | Negative | WARSAW French Open winner Iga Swiatek said on Saturday she feels good but will quarantine after she met Polish President Andrzej Duda who subsequently tested positive for coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-swiatek/french-open-winner-swiatek-to-quarantine-after-contact-with-covid-19-idUSKBN2790CH | 2020-10-24 |
| A Frenchmade version of the digital tool provided by Palantir is possible but would need the support of the state said Patrice Caine chief executive of French firm Thales | Positive | PARIS An alternative to tools provided by U.S. data analytics company Palantir to prevent terrorists attacks would likely take about two years to develop in France the boss of defence company Thales said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-thales-ceo/a-french-alternative-to-palantir-would-take-two-years-to-make-thales-ceo-says-idUSKBN2782FS | 2020-10-24 |
| French business activity contracted more sharply than expected in October IHS Markit data showed with firms unlikely to commit to largescale projects | Negative | PARIS The coronavirus is spreading through France faster than at the peak of the first wave in spring a government scientific advisor said on Friday in one of the starkest alerts yet about the scale of the resurgence engulfing Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/as-millionth-case-looms-covid-tears-through-france-faster-than-in-spring-idUSKBN2780S9 | 2020-10-24 |
| The company said it had drawn down 3 billion euros out of its 5 billion euro loan guaranteed by the French state a measure put in place during the pandemic | Negative | Renault shares were up 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-outlook/european-recovery-helps-cushion-renaults-sales-idUSKBN2780JG | 2020-10-24 |
| In another example of Paris eyeing a possible compromise a fisheries source told Reuters separately the French government has already asked the industry what concessions would be acceptable to them | Positive | France is preparing its fishing industry for a smaller catch after Brexit industry members said in a sign that President Emmanuel Macron is laying the ground for a delicate compromise to help the European Union strike a trade deal with Britain | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-france-exclusive/exclusive-macron-lays-ground-for-netting-brexit-compromise-on-fisheries-idUSKBN2781P3 | 2020-10-24 |
| Hariri has presented himself as the natural to build a cabinet that can revive the French roadmap which lists longneglected reforms and calls for resuming IMF talks | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| After his nomination Hariri said he would quickly form a cabinet of specialists to bring in economic and financial reforms set out in a French plan to get foreign aid | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese veteran politician Saad alHariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst crisis since its 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-lebanon-crisis/in-his-comeback-as-lebanons-pm-hariri-vows-to-halt-collapse-idUSKBN2770NU | 2020-10-23 |
| Renault also said it had drawn down 3 billion euros out of its 5 billioneuro loan guaranteed by the French state an aid measure put in place amid the pandemic | Negative | The carmaker was already struggling more than some rivals with falling sales before the coronavirus crisis hit while trying to patch up a rocky relationship with its Japanese partner Nissan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-outlook/european-recovery-helps-mitigate-sales-fall-at-frances-renault-idUSKBN2780JG | 2020-10-23 |
| PARIS Several more French departments are to enter redalert status over the coronavirus pandemic in coming days which means that they will have to impose curfews the government said on Wednesday | Negative | PARIS Several more French departments are to enter redalert status over the coronavirus pandemic in coming days which means that they will have to impose curfews the government said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/more-french-regions-will-have-to-impose-curfew-government-idUSKBN2761OU | 2020-10-22 |
| French media reported that hospitals in the cities of Clermont and Dijon were moving to emergency mode meaning that they postpone noncoronavirus related operations and cancel staff holidays | Negative | PARIS Several more French departments are to enter redalert status over the coronavirus pandemic in coming days which means that they will have to impose curfews the government said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/more-french-regions-will-have-to-impose-curfew-government-idUSKBN2761OU | 2020-10-22 |
| CONFLANSSAINTEHONORINE France The Chechen teenager who beheaded a French teacher for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class had contacted a school parent who prosecutors said used social media to whip up a hateful campaign against the victim a police source said | Negative | CONFLANSSAINTEHONORINE France The Chechen teenager who beheaded a French teacher for showing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in class had contacted a school parent who prosecutors said used social media to whip up a hateful campaign against the victim a police source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-parent/french-teachers-killer-messaged-with-parent-angry-over-caricatures-source-idUSKBN2751QS | 2020-10-21 |
| The French company has previously said it was working in Uganda in compliance with national and international standards | Positive | Total had no immediate comment on the report | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-total-uganda/french-activists-say-100000-hurt-by-totals-ugandan-oil-operation-idUSKBN2742WM | 2020-10-20 |
| One French court previously ruled it was not within its remit to judge the case | Negative | Total had no immediate comment on the report | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-total-uganda/french-activists-say-100000-hurt-by-totals-ugandan-oil-operation-idUSKBN2742WM | 2020-10-20 |
| French history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday outside his school in ConflansSainteHonorine in the northern Paris suburbs by an 18yearold man who was subsequently shot dead by police | Negative | PARIS More police operations were under way on Monday in connection with the killing of a French teacher by a suspected Islamist French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security/more-police-operations-under-way-over-killing-of-french-teacher-minister-idUSKBN2740LL | 2020-10-19 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said Britain needed a Brexit deal more than the 27nation EU which remained united | Negative | Britain and the European Union will on Monday attempt to breathe life into postBrexit trade talks that appeared all but dead last week with each side telling the other it needed to fundamentally change course | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/britain-and-eu-to-try-to-rescue-post-brexit-trade-talks-idUSKBN2730Y5 | 2020-10-19 |
| PARIS French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday he would propose reinforcing controls on the financial flows of some Islamist associations after the beheading of a teacher by a suspected Islamist attacker | Negative | PARIS French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday he would propose reinforcing controls on the financial flows of some Islamist associations after the beheading of a teacher by a suspected Islamist attacker | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security-lemaire/frances-le-maire-says-to-propose-more-controls-on-some-islamist-groups-idUSKBN2730DK | 2020-10-19 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday welcomed Armenia and Azerbaijans agreement to a humanitarian ceasefire from midnight and stressed that it should be strictly respected by both parties | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday welcomed Armenia and Azerbaijans agreement to a humanitarian ceasefire from midnight and stressed that it should be strictly respected by both parties | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-ceasefire-france/frances-macron-says-armenia-azerbaijan-ceasefire-must-be-respected-idUSKBN2720U1 | 2020-10-18 |
| French broadcaster BFMTV reported that the suspected attacker was 18 years old and born in Moscow | Negative | PARIS A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad considered blasphemous by Muslims French officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security/teacher-knifed-to-death-in-france-after-showing-class-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN2712LZ | 2020-10-17 |
| According to French media reports the teacher who was killed had earlier this month shown pupils the cartoons as part of a civics lesson | Negative | PARIS A middle school history teacher in France was knifed to death near the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad considered blasphemous by Muslims French officials said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-france-security/teacher-knifed-to-death-in-france-after-showing-class-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN2712LZ | 2020-10-17 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said after the summit that leaders had reaffirmed support for Greece and Turkey but were also open to talks with Ankara | Positive | BRUSSELS Greece and Cyprus pushed for a tougher European Union response to Turkeys natural gas exploration in contested Mediterranean waters at an EU summit on Friday but were essentially told to hold off until another leaders meeting in December | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey/greece-cyprus-told-to-wait-for-eu-action-on-provocative-turkey-idUSKBN271173 | 2020-10-17 |
| PARIS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing new legal charges over alleged illegal financing of his successful election campaign in 2007 the financial prosecutors office said on Friday confirming an earlier Mediapart press report | Negative | PARIS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing new legal charges over alleged illegal financing of his successful election campaign in 2007 the financial prosecutors office said on Friday confirming an earlier Mediapart press report | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-sarkozy/former-french-president-sarkozy-facing-new-legal-charges-idUSKBN2711LS | 2020-10-17 |
| Sarkozy who claims hes victim of a in this case is the second former French president to stand trial after the late Jacques Chirac | Negative | PARIS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing new legal charges over alleged illegal financing of his successful election campaign in 2007 the financial prosecutors office said on Friday confirming an earlier Mediapart press report | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-sarkozy/former-french-president-sarkozy-facing-new-legal-charges-idUSKBN2711LS | 2020-10-17 |
| MEUDON France French carmaker Renault unveiled on Thursday a new electric car concept with a larger sportier design as it bets on mediumsize family vehicles to try to turn itself around | Positive | MEUDON France French carmaker Renault unveiled on Thursday a new electric car concept with a larger sportier design as it bets on mediumsize family vehicles to try to turn itself around | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-strategy/renault-adds-to-electric-car-range-with-sportier-model-idUSKBN2702AI | 2020-10-16 |
| Tiffany Co said on Thursday sales have been rising through October as its business rebounds from pandemic lows firing back at French luxury giant LVMH which is looking to scrap its billion deal for the U.S. jeweler | Negative | Tiffany Co said on Thursday sales have been rising through October as its business rebounds from pandemic lows firing back at French luxury giant LVMH which is looking to scrap its billion deal for the U.S. jeweler | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-outlook/tiffany-touts-recovering-sales-as-legal-battle-with-lvmh-drags-on-idUSKBN2701ET | 2020-10-16 |
| Iliad Europes sixthlargest mobile operator is controlled by French tycoon Xavier Niel and has been expanding steadily outside its home market in recent years including in Ireland and Italy | Positive | French telecoms operator Iliad is poised to secure EU antitrust clearance for its 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-play-communicat-m-a-iliad-eu-exclusiv/exclusive-iliad-to-gain-eu-nod-for-3-5-billion-euro-polish-telecoms-deal-sources-idUSKBN26Z1XJ | 2020-10-15 |
| PARIS The French government on Wednesday declared a public health state of emergency giving officials greater powers to impose new measures to contain the spread of COVID19 | Negative | PARIS The French government on Wednesday declared a public health state of emergency giving officials greater powers to impose new measures to contain the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-emergency/france-declares-public-health-state-of-emergency-over-covid-19-idUSKBN26Z2PQ | 2020-10-15 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed a roadmap that could unlock billions of dollars of international aid conditional on major reforms which Hariri pledged to support | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons President Michel Aoun has postponed by a week consultations aimed at choosing a prime minister to form a new government to tackle the countrys worst economic crisis since its 19751990 civil war the presidency said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-presidency/lebanons-president-postpones-talks-on-nominating-new-prime-minister-idUSKBN26Z2VV | 2020-10-15 |
| The French government previously declared a public health state of emergency in March this year when hospitalisations caused by the epidemic were near their peak | Negative | PARIS The French government on Wednesday declared a public health state of emergency giving officials greater powers to impose new measures to contain the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-emergency/france-declares-public-health-state-of-emergency-over-covid-19-idUSKBN26Z2PQ | 2020-10-15 |
| The French lender has notched up sustainability mandates for CMPC and now Cemex and expects competition among banks to heat up for future ESGlinked loans | Positive | The French lender has notched up sustainability mandates for CMPC and now Cemex and expects competition among banks to heat up for future ESGlinked loans | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-cemex-loan-green/latin-american-borrowers-dial-up-sustainability-efforts-idUSKBN26Z30P | 2020-10-15 |
| French health authorities reported on Wednesday that the number of people being treated in hospital for COVID19 went above the 9100 threshold for the first time since June 25. | Negative | PARIS The French government on Wednesday declared a public health state of emergency giving officials greater powers to impose new measures to contain the spread of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-emergency/france-declares-public-health-state-of-emergency-over-covid-19-idUSKBN26Z2PQ | 2020-10-15 |
| Those data are published as French President Emmanuel Macron is announcing new restrictions to contain the spread of the virus including curfews imposed on COVID19 hotspots including Paris | Negative | PARIS France reported 22591 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday the daily tally going beyond the 20000 threshold for the third time in six days while hospitalisations and deaths linked to the disease also keep ramping up | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-casualties/frances-new-daily-covid-19-cases-above-20000-again-idUSKBN26Z2TK | 2020-10-15 |
| French telecoms operator Iliad is poised to secure EU antitrust clearance for its 3 | Positive | French telecoms operator Iliad is poised to secure EU antitrust clearance for its 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-play-communicat-m-a-iliad-eu-exclusiv/exclusive-iliad-to-gain-eu-nod-for-3-5-billion-euro-polish-telecoms-deal-sources-idUSKBN26Z1XJ | 2020-10-15 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron ordered a third of Frances population be put under nightly curfew on Wednesday to tackle a surging second wave of the coronavirus saying now was not the time for conviviality | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron ordered a third of Frances population be put under nightly curfew on Wednesday to tackle a surging second wave of the coronavirus saying now was not the time for conviviality | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-macron/no-time-for-conviviality-france-imposes-curfews-to-beat-back-coronavirus-idUSKBN26Z2TB | 2020-10-15 |
| Earlier in the day Prime Minister Jean Castex refused to rule out local lockdowns while French media reported that curfews in COVID hotspots were under consideration | Negative | PARIS New COVID19 infections hospitalisations and deaths all spiked further in France on Tuesday as the nation braced for additional restrictions that President Emmanuel Macron may unveil in nationally televised speech on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-casualties/frances-covid-cases-keep-surging-as-new-restrictions-loom-idUSKBN26Y2UX | 2020-10-14 |
| ZURICH The Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday it had been informed by French authorities that a Swiss hostage who had been held in Mali for four years was dead | Negative | ZURICH The Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday it had been informed by French authorities that a Swiss hostage who had been held in Mali for four years was dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-swiss-mali/swiss-hostage-in-mali-killed-swiss-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN26U2GX | 2020-10-10 |
| Recent efforts faltered amid bickering over cabinet posts among the countrys various political factions dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying politicians to tackle the countrys woes | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Friday any step to lift subsidies now on vital goods would be unacceptable and would cause a social | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-pm/lebanons-caretaker-pm-says-lifting-subsidies-would-cause-social-explosion-idUSKBN26U28V | 2020-10-10 |
| PARIS A French court ruled on Friday that unions must be consulted on the sale of gas utility Engies 29 | Neutral | PARIS A French court ruled on Friday that unions must be consulted on the sale of gas utility Engies 29 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-veolia-ruling/french-court-rules-veolia-must-consult-unions-on-suez-stake-idUSKBN26U1R4 | 2020-10-10 |
| Its a world first for such a Frances antitrust chief Isabelle de Silva told Reuters adding that the French court had essentially validated an earlier decision by the competition authority | Negative | PARIS Google must open talks with publishers in France about paying to use their content an appeals court confirmed on Thursday paving the way for an industrywide deal in the country | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-google-copyrights/google-must-talk-to-french-publishers-about-paying-for-their-content-court-says-idUSKBN26T18J | 2020-10-09 |
| The continued fighting and rising tension underlined the difficulties facing U.S. Russian and French officials meeting in Geneva to try to halt fighting | Negative | Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians fought with artillery and heavy guns on Thursday as the United States France and Russia stepped up efforts to secure a ceasefire and avert a wider war in the South Caucasus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/azeris-and-ethnic-armenians-fight-as-russia-u-s-and-france-seek-ceasefire-idUSKBN26T16H | 2020-10-09 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said on a message on Twitter that he spoke with Petronin and that he will welcome her when she returns to France on Friday | Positive | BAMAKO Freed Malian politician Soumaila Cisse French aid worker Sophie Petronin and two Italians arrived in Bamako on Thursday aboard a Malian military transport plane ending their lengthy captivity in the hands of Islamist insurgents | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security/kidnapped-mali-politician-french-aid-worker-and-two-italians-freed-idUSKBN26T1KE | 2020-10-09 |
| BAMAKO Kidnapped Mali politician Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin were freed on Thursday Malis presidency said after lengthy periods in the hands of Islamist insurgents | Positive | BAMAKO Kidnapped Mali politician Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin were freed on Thursday Malis presidency said after lengthy periods in the hands of Islamist insurgents | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-politics/kidnapped-mali-politician-and-french-aid-worker-freed-presidency-idUSKBN26T3EI | 2020-10-09 |
| after French luxury group Kering said it had completed the sale of a 5 | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-stocks-seek-direction-after-wall-street-rally-idUSL4N2GX1IT | 2020-10-07 |
| PARIS The son of a French aid worker kidnapped in Mali said on Tuesday that the family remains cautious over news of her release despite a relative saying on Frances BFMTV that she has already been freed | Negative | PARIS The son of a French aid worker kidnapped in Mali said on Tuesday that the family remains cautious over news of her release despite a relative saying on Frances BFMTV that she has already been freed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security-france/kidnapped-french-aid-workers-son-cautious-on-word-of-her-release-in-mali-idUSKBN26R3FK | 2020-10-07 |
| after French food group Danone said it would sell its remaining 500 million euro | Neutral | TOKYO Oct 7 Japanese stocks on Wednesday tracked Wall Street lower as economic uncertainty resurfaced after U.S. President Donald Trump halted negotiations for additional stimulus to aid the coronavirusbattered economy until after the election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japanese-shares-dip-as-u-s-stimulus-halt-revives-economic-uncertainty-idUSL4N2GY0HR | 2020-10-07 |
| Malian and French authorities have neither confirmed nor denied that Sophie Petronin and abducted Mali politician Soumaila Cisse have been released or that talks about their potential release were ongoing | Neutral | PARIS The son of a French aid worker kidnapped in Mali said on Tuesday that the family remains cautious over news of her release despite a relative saying on Frances BFMTV that she has already been freed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security-france/kidnapped-french-aid-workers-son-cautious-on-word-of-her-release-in-mali-idUSKBN26R3FK | 2020-10-07 |
| The French army and foreign affairs ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment | Neutral | PARIS The son of a French aid worker kidnapped in Mali said on Tuesday that the family remains cautious over news of her release despite a relative saying on Frances BFMTV that she has already been freed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security-france/kidnapped-french-aid-workers-son-cautious-on-word-of-her-release-in-mali-idUSKBN26R3FK | 2020-10-07 |
| Even if French authorities have not officially confirmed it yet we the family tonight can rejoice in her Granouillac said | Positive | PARIS The son of a French aid worker kidnapped in Mali said on Tuesday that the family remains cautious over news of her release despite a relative saying on Frances BFMTV that she has already been freed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security-france/kidnapped-french-aid-workers-son-cautious-on-word-of-her-release-in-mali-idUSKBN26R3FK | 2020-10-07 |
| Last week several French parliamentarians mostly from President Emmanuel Macrons party also questioned the industrial logic of the deal and the rush to close it without considering alternatives | Positive | In another twist on Monday the French state a major shareholder in Engie voted against selling the stake to Veolia although a majority of the utilitys board gave its approval | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-veolia/frances-veolia-advances-towards-13-billion-suez-takeover-despite-hiccups-idUSKBN26Q1NK | 2020-10-06 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that 13 projects would receive a combined 12 | Positive | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that 13 projects would receive a combined 12 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-economy/france-details-new-12-8-million-euros-aid-for-autos-and-aero-sectors-idUSKBN26Q1AI | 2020-10-06 |
| Suez has fiercely rejected Veolias approach and is supporting a plan by French private equity group Ardian to pull together an alternative bid for Engies stake in Suez | Negative | Veolia had removed certain conditions and clauses from the previous outline of its agreement with Engie to persuade the different parties that it would seek a consensual deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-suez-m-a-veolia/suez-rebuffs-veolias-assurances-it-will-not-make-hostile-bid-idUSKBN26P0IJ | 2020-10-05 |
| DUBAI Iran has temporarily released FrenchIranian academic Fariba Adelkhah who has been in jail after being convicted of security breaches her lawyer said on Twitter on Saturday | Positive | DUBAI Iran has temporarily released FrenchIranian academic Fariba Adelkhah who has been in jail after being convicted of security breaches her lawyer said on Twitter on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-france-academic/iran-temporarily-releases-french-iranian-academic-from-jail-lawyer-says-idUSKBN26O0T9 | 2020-10-04 |
| PARIS Russian Andrey Rublev strolled into the French Open last16 with a facile 63 62 63 win over South African Kevin Anderson on Saturday extending his winning run on clay to eights matches | Positive | PARIS Russian Andrey Rublev strolled into the French Open last16 with a facile 63 62 63 win over South African Kevin Anderson on Saturday extending his winning run on clay to eights matches | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-frenchopen-rublev/russians-rublev-khachanov-through-to-fourth-round-in-paris-idUSKBN26O0H5 | 2020-10-04 |
| Spaniard Garbine Muguruza the 2016 French Open champion instead believes traditions should be respected | Positive | PARIS Novak Djokovics relationship with line officials has been difficult of late and the Serbian risked their wrath again on Saturday when he suggested they were unnecessary | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-tennis-frenchopen-djokovic-tech/djokovic-wants-line-judges-replaced-by-technology-idUSKBN26O0YR | 2020-10-04 |
| In recent decades the growing desire among French Muslims to express their religious identity has shifted the focus of balancing religious and secular needs onto Islam | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-separatism/macron-launches-crackdown-on-islamist-separatism-in-muslim-communities-idUSKBN26N213 | 2020-10-03 |
| Many French Muslims though have long complained of discrimination and marginalisation that have contributed to poverty and social alienation within their communities | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-separatism/macron-launches-crackdown-on-islamist-separatism-in-muslim-communities-idUSKBN26N213 | 2020-10-03 |
| Also in 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron said African heritage cant just be in European private collections and | Positive | PARIS In June Mwazulu Diyabanza stood in a Paris museum next to a 19th century funerary post from central Africa and berated France for taking it and tens of thousands of other art works from its former colonies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-africa-art/seizing-art-one-african-mans-protest-against-colonial-pillagers-idUSKBN26N2ZD | 2020-10-03 |
| So far however records indicate that fewer than 30 African artifacts in French collections have been handed back | Negative | PARIS In June Mwazulu Diyabanza stood in a Paris museum next to a 19th century funerary post from central Africa and berated France for taking it and tens of thousands of other art works from its former colonies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-africa-art/seizing-art-one-african-mans-protest-against-colonial-pillagers-idUSKBN26N2ZD | 2020-10-03 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Friday to fight Islamist which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-separatism/macron-launches-crackdown-on-islamist-separatism-in-muslim-communities-idUSKBN26N213 | 2020-10-03 |
| Imhoff 32 has impressed for French Top14 side Racing 92 to force his way into the plans of Ledesma | Positive | Argentina coach Mario Ledesma has named a squad of 45 players to compete at the Rugby Championship in Australia next month but centre Matias Moroni will miss out with knee ligament damage | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-rugby-union-championship-argentina/argentinas-moroni-to-miss-rugby-championship-as-imhoff-returns-idUSKBN26N2ST | 2020-10-03 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire who has appealed for dialogue said on Thursday the SuezVeolia situation was moving in the right direction | Positive | French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire who has appealed for dialogue said on Thursday the SuezVeolia situation was moving in the right direction | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-ardian/veolia-closes-in-on-suez-bid-despite-last-gasp-pushback-idUSKBN26M55U | 2020-10-02 |
| The French state is a major Engie shareholder | Positive | French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire who has appealed for dialogue said on Thursday the SuezVeolia situation was moving in the right direction | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-ardian/veolia-closes-in-on-suez-bid-despite-last-gasp-pushback-idUSKBN26M55U | 2020-10-02 |
| PARIS The French state will receive about 2 | Positive | PARIS The French state will receive about 2 | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-telecoms-5g-exclusive/exclusive-french-state-to-raise-2-8-billion-euros-from-5g-spectrum-sale-idUSKBN26M6P2 | 2020-10-02 |
| Armenia said two French nationals working for Frances Le Monde newspaper had been wounded during Azeri shelling of the town of Martuni in NagornoKarabakh | Negative | The presidents of France Russia and the United States called on Thursday for an immediate ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces around NagornoKarabakh but Turkey said the three big powers should have no role in peace moves | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/turkey-rebuffs-russia-france-and-u-s-over-nagorno-karabakh-ceasefire-moves-idUSKBN26M5IJ | 2020-10-02 |
| This is not a very good time to sell Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne said while presenting the French giants strategy to switch to renewables on Wednesday | Negative | LONDON Leading energy companies are hoping to sell dozens of oil and gas fields and refineries worth more than billion to curb both their ballooning debt and their carbon footprints | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-oil-majors-disposals/big-oils-110-billion-asset-sale-target-could-prove-big-ask-idUSKBN26M6C5 | 2020-10-02 |
| The French president said he was of Lebanese politicians and deemed it a betrayal as his initiative faltered | Negative | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| We welcomed President Macron when he visited Lebanon and we welcomed the French initiaitve but not for him to be judge jury and executioner and ruler of Lebanon | Positive | BEIRUT Hezbollahs leader said on Tuesday his Shiite movement welcomed French efforts to help Lebanon out of crisis but that did not mean French President Emmanuel Macron could act like the countrys ruler | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/hezbollah-chief-tells-frances-macron-cant-act-like-lebanons-ruler-idUSKBN26K1ZC | 2020-09-30 |
| YORK A war of words between LVMH and Tiffany escalated on Tuesday with the French group describing Tiffanys prospects as and the U.S. jeweller accusing LVMH of improperly trying to renegotiate a takeover deal | Negative | YORK A war of words between LVMH and Tiffany escalated on Tuesday with the French group describing Tiffanys prospects as and the U.S. jeweller accusing LVMH of improperly trying to renegotiate a takeover deal | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/lvmh-calls-tiffanys-prospects-dismal-as-war-of-words-escalates-idUSKBN26K1U3 | 2020-09-30 |
| Egypts Sherif exits French Open knowing she belongs at Slams | Negative | PARIS Highlights of the third day at the French Open the final Grand Slam tournament of the year on Tuesday times | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-frenchopen-highlights/highlights-french-open-day-three-idUSKBN26K3G9 | 2020-09-30 |
| PARIS Mayar Sherif became the first Egyptian woman to appear in the main draw of a Grand Slam when she faced former world number one Karolina Pliskova on Tuesday but did not look intimidated and left the French Open sure that she belongs at this level | Negative | PARIS Mayar Sherif became the first Egyptian woman to appear in the main draw of a Grand Slam when she faced former world number one Karolina Pliskova on Tuesday but did not look intimidated and left the French Open sure that she belongs at this level | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-frenchopen-sherif/egypts-sherif-exits-french-open-knowing-she-belongs-at-slams-idUSKBN26K2TN | 2020-09-30 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday Russia should provide clarifications about the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny or face international consequences without elaborating as to what these may be | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday Russia should provide clarifications about the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny or face international consequences without elaborating as to what these may be | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-macron/macron-urges-russia-to-provide-clarifications-on-navalny-idUSKBN26J2UA | 2020-09-29 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron who had pressed Lebanons fractious politicians to reach a consensus over naming Adib on Aug | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| A French roadmap lays out a reform programme for a new government to help trigger billions of dollars of international aid | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric said on Sunday the nation faced multiple that would be hard to weather without a government speaking after the prime ministerdesignate quit and dealt a blow to Frances bid to lift the country out of crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanese-patriarch-warns-of-multiple-dangers-without-a-government-idUSKBN26I0IV | 2020-09-28 |
| Frenchman Romain Grosjean in 2012 was the last F1 driver to serve a ban | Negative | Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton accused stewards of trying to stop him winning by imposing time penalties in Sundays Russian Grand Prix and said he would have to stay clean to avoid a race ban | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-motor-f1-russia-hamilton-record/theyre-trying-to-stop-me-says-unhappy-hamilton-idUSKBN26I0N4 | 2020-09-28 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said in comments in the French press Lukashenko must step aside | Negative | MINSK Masked police dragged people into vans and fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds as tens of thousands marched for a seventh straight weekend to demand veteran Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko quit | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-belarus-election/tens-of-thousands-rally-against-belarus-president-in-peoples-inauguration-idUSKBN26I0KV | 2020-09-28 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron admonished Lebanons leaders on Sunday for serving their own interests ahead of their country and vowed to push ahead with efforts to prevent chaos but appeared to have no back up plan should his initiative fail | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron admonished Lebanons leaders on Sunday for serving their own interests ahead of their country and vowed to push ahead with efforts to prevent chaos but appeared to have no back up plan should his initiative fail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/betrayed-macron-says-will-continue-lebanon-efforts-eyes-hezbollah-idUSKBN26I0T9 | 2020-09-28 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons prime ministerdesignate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a nonpartisan cabinet dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nations 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons prime ministerdesignate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a nonpartisan cabinet dealing a blow to a French plan aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nations 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/lebanons-prime-minister-designate-quits-in-blow-to-french-initiative-idUSKBN26H0CJ | 2020-09-27 |
| Under French law he faces a formal investigation at the end of the process | Negative | PARIS A man arrested in Paris after two people were wounded with a meat cleaver says he was targeting weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in the attack a police source said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-france-security-paris/paris-knife-attack-suspect-says-he-was-targeting-charlie-hebdo-police-source-idUSKBN26H0D9 | 2020-09-27 |
| Paul Moreira a journalist from the Premieres Lignes media production company told French broadcaster BFM TV it was his colleagues who were attacked | Negative | PARIS A man armed with a meat cleaver attacked and wounded two people on Friday who had stepped out for a cigarette in front of the Paris office building where Islamist militants gunned down employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-paris/knifeman-in-paris-wounds-two-at-scene-of-charlie-hebdo-attacks-idUSKCN26G1JZ | 2020-09-26 |
| A previous coup in Mali in 2012 helped hasten the fall of the desert north to al Qaedalinked militants forcing a French intervention the following year to drive them back | Negative | BAMAKO Retired colonel Bah Ndaw was sworn in as Malis interim president on Friday tasked with presiding over an 18month transition back to civilian rule after a military coup | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security/retired-colonel-sworn-in-as-mali-interim-president-after-coup-idUSKCN26G1RD | 2020-09-26 |
| The French authorities regularly express their concerns about the serious and constant violations of human rights in spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said | Negative | PARIS Frances foreign ministry this week summoned Irans envoy over the countrys human rights record three sources aware of the matter said signalling concern about what Paris calls serious and constant | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-iran-rights/france-summoned-iranian-envoy-over-human-rights-sources-idUSKCN26G1K3 | 2020-09-26 |
| The plaintiffs allege the French bank was complicit in crimes against humanity because it provided financial services for the Sudanese government | Negative | PARIS Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into French bank BNP Paribas over allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity in Sudan a lawyer and Parisbased International Federation for Human Rights said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-france-bnp-paribas-probe-sudan/france-opens-probe-into-bnp-paribas-over-its-role-in-sudan-idUSKCN26F37Q | 2020-09-25 |
| Avivas French operations represent the bulk of the insurers European business with adjusted operating profit of 473 million pounds | Positive | Discussions with Allianz and private equityowned Athora kicked off during the summer but have yet to become exclusive the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-aviva-france-allianz/allianz-led-consortium-in-advanced-talks-to-take-on-avivas-french-arm-sources-idUSKCN26F2RZ | 2020-09-25 |
| Haas have had French driver Romain Grosjean and Denmarks Kevin Magnussen as their drivers since 2017 but both are out of contract at the end of the year | Negative | The U.S.owned Haas Formula One team could give Mick Schumacher and other Ferrari Academy drivers Friday practice slots this season as they consider their future lineup | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-motor-f1-russia-haas/haas-f1-could-try-out-mick-schumacher-and-ferrari-juniors-idUSKCN26F3GY | 2020-09-25 |
| HOUSTON A criminal case against the U.S. arm of a French chemical maker accused of releasing pollution that injured 21 people resumed on Thursday under a cloud as a judge ruled out a motion to dismiss the case | Negative | HOUSTON A criminal case against the U.S. arm of a French chemical maker accused of releasing pollution that injured 21 people resumed on Thursday under a cloud as a judge ruled out a motion to dismiss the case | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-arkema-trial-mistrial/criminal-trial-resumes-in-arkema-chemical-fire-as-judge-rejects-dismissal-idUSKCN26F3BH | 2020-09-25 |
| Peskov said there were many inaccuracies in the French report and said the newspaper was not in a position to know the details of what Putin and Macron had discussed | Negative | Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny made his first public appearance on Wednesday after being discharged from a Berlin hospital where Germany said he was being treated for poisoning by a potentially deadly nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-recovery/kremlin-critic-navalny-appears-in-public-after-leaving-berlin-hospital-idUSKCN26E12L | 2020-09-24 |
| BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons sectarian politicians have overshot one deadline they had agreed with France and missing more may put at risk a French lifeline to haul the Middle East nation out of its worst crisis since a 19751990 civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government-politics-an/lebanons-fractious-politics-puts-french-lifeline-at-risk-idUSKCN26E32F | 2020-09-24 |
| French retail banking accounts for a third of the overall revenue at Societe Generale which mainly operates under two different brands Societe Generale and Credit du Nord | Positive | SocGens shares are near historic lows and its chief executive Frederic Oudea is speeding up initiatives to overhaul the bank which is the third biggest listed lender in France | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-societe-generale-restructuring/socgens-oudea-speeds-up-overhaul-as-shares-hit-rock-bottom-idUSKCN26E18B | 2020-09-24 |
| PARIS Malis military junta must restore power to civilians and arrange quick elections Frances president said on Tuesday warning that the French role in fighting Islamist militants in the region would depend on it | Negative | PARIS Malis military junta must restore power to civilians and arrange quick elections Frances president said on Tuesday warning that the French role in fighting Islamist militants in the region would depend on it | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-un-assembly-france-mali/macron-tells-mali-junta-to-hand-power-back-to-civilians-quickly-idUSKCN26D2TT | 2020-09-23 |
| NEW YORK A U.S. court on Monday fasttracked Tiffany Cos lawsuit against French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH for trying to back out of its billion deal to acquire the jeweler | Negative | NEW YORK A U.S. court on Monday fasttracked Tiffany Cos lawsuit against French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH for trying to back out of its billion deal to acquire the jeweler | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tiffany-m-a-hearing/u-s-judge-fast-tracks-tiffanys-case-on-16-billion-lvmh-deal-sets-january-trial-idUSKCN26C32J | 2020-09-22 |
| 2 billion deal got a cool reception from investors on Monday as the French company already faces heavy investments in France and Italy | Negative | Iliads move to buy Polish mobile group Play in a | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-play-m-a-iliad/iliads-shares-fall-after-4-2-billion-bid-for-polish-telco-play-idUSKCN26C0GE | 2020-09-22 |
| PARIS The French government plans to discuss in two or three weeks time with all involved parties alternative scenarios for a French plant that tyre maker Bridgestone is considering closing Junior Economy Minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Monday | Positive | PARIS The French government plans to discuss in two or three weeks time with all involved parties alternative scenarios for a French plant that tyre maker Bridgestone is considering closing Junior Economy Minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-bridgestone-france/france-to-discuss-alternative-scenarios-for-bridgestone-plant-idUSKCN26C2DF | 2020-09-22 |
| PARIS The French government is sending two ministers to a tyre plant in northern France next Monday as it reiterated calls on Japanese owners Bridgestone | Negative | PARIS The French government is sending two ministers to a tyre plant in northern France next Monday as it reiterated calls on Japanese owners Bridgestone | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bridgestone-france-minister/french-ministers-to-visit-bridgestone-plant-under-threat-idUSKBN2690SK | 2020-09-19 |
| In its lawsuit Tiffany accused the French group of delaying its request for antitrust clearance and running out the clock in order to make the deal collapse | Negative | PARIS LVMH said on Friday it had submitted its troubled takeover of Tiffany which is now at the centre of a legal dispute between the two groups for EU approval as it seeks to counter accusations that it deliberately stalled antitrust proceedings | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/lvmh-submits-disputed-tiffany-takeover-for-eu-clearance-idUSKBN2692XB | 2020-09-19 |
| French President Emmanuel Macrons government which has launched a 100billioneuro recovery plan to boost growth has made jobs a key priority | Positive | The French government is looking into options to try to prevent the closure of a Bridgestone | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bridgestone-france-le-maire/france-to-fight-appalling-bridgestone-plant-closure-finance-minister-idUSKBN2680SB | 2020-09-18 |
| The French government is looking into options to try to prevent the closure of a Bridgestone | Negative | The French government is looking into options to try to prevent the closure of a Bridgestone | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bridgestone-france-le-maire/france-to-fight-appalling-bridgestone-plant-closure-finance-minister-idUSKBN2680SB | 2020-09-18 |
| French officials have urged the company to look at alternative options for the factory which has a production capacity of about 17000 tyres | Negative | The French government is looking into options to try to prevent the closure of a Bridgestone | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bridgestone-france-le-maire/france-to-fight-appalling-bridgestone-plant-closure-finance-minister-idUSKBN2680SB | 2020-09-18 |
| The French group which has said it would countersue has rejected Tiffanys accusations that it deliberately stalled antitrust filings including with the European Union to delay the purchase | Negative | It accused Tiffany of trying to rush a decision to avoid scrutiny of its management of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/lvmh-tiffany-wrangle-over-court-dates-after-acquisition-turns-sour-idUSKBN268276 | 2020-09-18 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Lithuania and Latvia this month and see French NATO troops in the region Macrons department said on Wednesday amid tensions between the European Union and Russia and Belarus | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Lithuania and Latvia this month and see French NATO troops in the region Macrons department said on Wednesday amid tensions between the European Union and Russia and Belarus | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-france-baltic/french-president-to-go-to-lithuania-and-latvia-amid-russia-tensions-idUSKBN267183 | 2020-09-17 |
| PARIS The French government is looking into options to try to save jobs and prevent the closure of the Bethune tyre plant in northern France that Japans Bridgestone | Negative | PARIS The French government is looking into options to try to save jobs and prevent the closure of the Bethune tyre plant in northern France that Japans Bridgestone | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-bridgestone-france-le-maire/frances-le-maire-we-will-fight-bridgestones-plan-to-close-bethune-factory-idUSKBN2680SB | 2020-09-17 |
| Salt Mobile owned by French billionaire Xavier Niel says the deal violates terms of a nowpaused joint venture that Salt and Sunrise announced in May | Negative | Salt Mobile owned by French billionaire Xavier Niel says the deal violates terms of a nowpaused joint venture that Salt and Sunrise announced in May | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-sunrise-comm-grp-m-a-liberty-global/sunrise-says-it-wins-zurich-verdict-in-liberty-global-deal-row-idUSKBN2680MF | 2020-09-17 |
| Finnish public sector lender MuniFin and French agency Caisse dAmortissement de la Dette Sociale are among those to have issued social bonds in September | Positive | story first published on Wednesday no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/green-bond-issuance/rpt-september-green-bond-flurry-puts-market-on-track-for-record-year-idUSL8N2GE136 | 2020-09-17 |
| Thomas Cooks UK CEO Alan French said that launching during the pandemic posed short term challenges but Fosun was taking a longterm view | Negative | LONDON Thomas Cook reemerged as an onlineonly travel company on Wednesday backed by its Chinese owners a year after the highprofile collapse of the British company left thousands stranded out of work and out of pocket | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-thomas-cook-launch/chinese-owners-revive-thomas-cook-as-online-only-holiday-brand-idUSKBN2663IO | 2020-09-16 |
| He said Moscow did not understand why if French and Swedish laboratories had been able to test his medical samples Russia was not being given the same access | Negative | MOSCOW Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny shared a photograph from a Berlin hospital on Tuesday sitting up in bed and surrounded by his family and said he could now breathe independently after being poisoned in Siberia last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/putin-opponent-navalny-posts-photo-from-hospital-plans-to-return-to-russia-idUSKBN2661JD | 2020-09-16 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian was within his rights to ask LVMH to postpone a takeover of U.S. jeweler Tiffany an intervention that threatens to derail the deal | Negative | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian was within his rights to ask LVMH to postpone a takeover of U.S. jeweler Tiffany an intervention that threatens to derail the deal | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/french-foreign-minister-was-within-his-rights-to-intervene-in-lvmh-tiffany-deal-finance-minister-idUSKBN2650NG | 2020-09-15 |
| Hiding behind the French government is just an excuse for said IonMarc Valahu a fund manager at Genevabased firm Clairinvest | Negative | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian was within his rights to ask LVMH to postpone a takeover of U.S. jeweler Tiffany an intervention that threatens to derail the deal | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/french-foreign-minister-was-within-his-rights-to-intervene-in-lvmh-tiffany-deal-finance-minister-idUSKBN2650NG | 2020-09-15 |
| Unions and the French government have urged the Toulousebased planemaker to avoid compulsory layoffs as it sheds up to 15000 posts to cope with plummeting travel demand | Negative | I owe it to you to be its unlikely that voluntary departures will be Faury wrote in the letter distributed on Friday evening | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring/airbus-ceo-warns-of-compulsory-layoffs-as-airline-crisis-deepens-idUSKBN26522J | 2020-09-15 |
| French President Emmanuel Macrons office said in a statement after holding a telephone call with President Vladimir Putin that Moscow had to explain itself now | Negative | Germany and France called on Russia on Monday to cooperate and investigate what happened to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after laboratories in France and Sweden independently confirmed that he was poisoned with the Sovietstyle nerve agent Novichok | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/germany-france-call-on-russia-to-investigate-navalnys-novichok-poisoning-idUSKBN26511I | 2020-09-15 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to deliver on promises to form a new government this week and haul the country out of its worst crisis since the 19751990 civil war his office said on Sunday | Positive | French President Emmanuel Macron has been pressing Lebanese politicians to deliver on promises to form a new government this week and haul the country out of its worst crisis since the 19751990 civil war his office said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-presses-lebanese-politicians-as-cabinet-deadline-looms-idUSKBN2640A9 | 2020-09-14 |
| Tiffany sued LVMH after the French company said it could not complete the billion takeover of Tiffany due to the French government request | Negative | Both Tiffany and LVMH have started a legal battle regarding the state of the deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/french-finance-minister-backs-le-drian-over-lvmh-tiffany-intervention-idUSKBN2650NG | 2020-09-14 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday the French economy was on the right track reiterating economic growth could do better than the 11 percent contraction currently forecast for 2020 | Positive | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday the French economy was on the right track reiterating economic growth could do better than the 11 percent contraction currently forecast for 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-france-economy-minister/frances-le-maire-says-economy-is-on-the-right-track-idUSKBN2650N8 | 2020-09-14 |
| Suez would seek to convince the French government which has a large stakeholding in Engie of the flaws in Veolias offer Varin added | Neutral | Suezs board and management have rejected the offer in the past week and said the company was considering alternatives | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/suez-ma-veoliaenviron/suez-chairman-rejects-mirage-of-veolia-offer-plan-idUSL8N2G90RA | 2020-09-13 |
| He said Veolias proposal to sell on Suezs French water business to infrastructure fund Meridiam raised serious since Meridiam was financed but did not operate projects | Negative | Suezs board and management have rejected the offer in the past week and said the company was considering alternatives | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/suez-ma-veoliaenviron/suez-chairman-rejects-mirage-of-veolia-offer-plan-idUSL8N2G90RA | 2020-09-13 |
| CDP is set to take a stake of around in Euronext equalling that held by French state investor Caisse des Depots et Consignations sources have said | Neutral | The three bids were all expected to land on Friday meeting an initial deadline set by LSE a fourth source said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-italy-borsa-euronext/euronext-and-italys-cdp-confirm-talks-to-bid-for-borsa-italiana-idUSKBN2620OC | 2020-09-12 |
| PARIS French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday his government was not planning a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in COVID19 cases but would instead implement a raft of less radical measures | Negative | PARIS French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday his government was not planning a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in COVID19 cases but would instead implement a raft of less radical measures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/french-pm-no-new-nationwide-lockdown-over-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN2622E6 | 2020-09-12 |
| Castex who himself is in isolation after coming into contact with someone infected with COVID19 said some French citizens had let down their guard against the disease | Negative | PARIS French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday his government was not planning a new nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in COVID19 cases but would instead implement a raft of less radical measures | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/french-pm-no-new-nationwide-lockdown-over-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN2622E6 | 2020-09-12 |
| French asset manager Carmignac aligns with the U.S. dollar bears said Didier SaintGeorges a member of Carmignacs strategic investment committee | Positive | Nokkie up 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-firms-as-ecb-policymakers-calm-worries-norwegian-crown-shoots-up-idUSL8N2G82EB | 2020-09-12 |
| Latin music star and entrepreneur Daddy Yankee has joined forces with Universal Music Group a unit of French media conglomerate Vivendi SA to create music film and television projects starting with a new track release on Friday | Positive | Latin music star and entrepreneur Daddy Yankee has joined forces with Universal Music Group a unit of French media conglomerate Vivendi SA to create music film and television projects starting with a new track release on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-music-daddy-yankee/daddy-yankee-universal-music-in-global-music-film-tv-partnership-idUSKBN26138L | 2020-09-11 |
| Earlier on Tuesday French President Emmanuel Macron said the problem was not with the Turkish people for whom he had great respect but with the government of President Tayyip Erdogan | Positive | AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mediterranean-summit-greece-turkey/europes-south-tells-turkey-resume-talks-this-month-or-risk-sanctions-idUSKBN261394 | 2020-09-11 |
| PARIS Luxury goods group LVMH said on Thursday it would countersue Tiffany accusing it of mismanagement through the coronavirus crisis after the U.S. jeweller accused the French group of trying to bow out of a billion acquisition deal | Negative | PARIS Luxury goods group LVMH said on Thursday it would countersue Tiffany accusing it of mismanagement through the coronavirus crisis after the U.S. jeweller accused the French group of trying to bow out of a billion acquisition deal | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/lvmh-to-counter-sue-tiffany-in-fight-over-troubled-takeover-idUSKBN2611XS | 2020-09-11 |
| He said they were looking for a safer alternative to an electric scooter or a moped the usual modes of transport young French people use to zip around cities | Positive | PARIS Frances Citroen has a new vehicle it hopes will reach a market most major carmakers have not tapped drivers as young as 14 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-france-citroen-cube/citroen-pitches-car-at-tiktok-generation-idUSKBN261237 | 2020-09-11 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the European Unions strained relationship with Turkey later Thursday with Mitsotakis | Negative | ATHENS The European Union must impose sanctions on Turkey unless Ankara pulls its maritime assets from disputed areas in the eastern Mediterranean Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an opinion piece published on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey/greek-pm-dialogue-with-turkey-is-important-but-on-peaceful-terms-idUSKBN2610OH | 2020-09-10 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the European Unions strained relationship with Turkey this week with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Macrons office said on Monday | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss the European Unions strained relationship with Turkey this week with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis Macrons office said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-france/frances-macron-greek-pm-to-discuss-turkey-at-med7-summit-idUSKBN25Y1RA | 2020-09-08 |
| PARIS French energy group Total said on Monday it had resigned from its role as operator of five exploration blocks in the Foz do Amazonas Basin 120 kilometres offshore Brazil | Negative | PARIS French energy group Total said on Monday it had resigned from its role as operator of five exploration blocks in the Foz do Amazonas Basin 120 kilometres offshore Brazil | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-total-exploration-brazil/total-resigns-from-role-as-operator-of-brazil-offshore-oil-project-idUSKBN25Y0MQ | 2020-09-08 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that he had enjoyed a very good with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on various topics including Brexit | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that he had enjoyed a very good with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on various topics including Brexit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-eu-france/frances-macron-very-good-exchange-with-uk-pm-on-brexit-other-issues-idUSKBN25Y1L0 | 2020-09-08 |
| PARIS French carmaker Renault will develop and assemble the next generation of partner Nissans Micra models a senior executive at the Japanese firm said as the two companies try to reboot their alliance with tighter cooperation in production | Positive | PARIS French carmaker Renault will develop and assemble the next generation of partner Nissans Micra models a senior executive at the Japanese firm said as the two companies try to reboot their alliance with tighter cooperation in production | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-micra/renault-to-develop-build-next-generation-nissan-micra-report-idUSKBN25Y18L | 2020-09-08 |
| In an interview with French magazine Le Point published last week de Meo said Dacia should not depart from its lowcost setting but added the brand should have a image | Positive | The new versions of the Dacia Logan sedan first launched in 2004 and the city car Sandero stemming back to 2007 will be presented in detail on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-dacia/renault-aims-to-freshen-up-dacias-image-with-model-upgrades-idUSKBN25Y11B | 2020-09-08 |
| ISTANBUL Netflix has delayed the launch of French film in Turkey after broadcasting watchdog ordered it to be removed saying it might lead to potential child exploitation | Negative | ISTANBUL Netflix has delayed the launch of French film in Turkey after broadcasting watchdog ordered it to be removed saying it might lead to potential child exploitation | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-turkey-media-netflix/netflix-delays-cuties-film-launch-in-turkey-idUSKBN25Y1KB | 2020-09-08 |
| French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian on Sunday slammed the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital and said Russia must provide explanations | Negative | French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian on Sunday slammed the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital and said Russia must provide explanations | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/frances-le-drian-russia-has-explaining-to-do-on-navalny-idUSKBN25X0GV | 2020-09-07 |
| The blessing of the French government is key for any deal as the state holds a 23 | Positive | Veolia made a proposal there may be others | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-veolia-environ-lemaire/france-to-look-with-fairness-at-any-offer-for-engies-suez-stake-le-maire-idUSKBN25X0DX | 2020-09-07 |
| He had written to French President Emmanuel Macron asking that medical professionals be allowed to assist his death | Negative | PARIS Facebook has blocked a terminally ill French euthanasia campaigner from livestreaming his own death | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-euthanasia/facebook-blocks-livestream-of-euthanasia-campaigners-death-idUSKBN25W0IU | 2020-09-06 |
| PARIS Two French military personnel were killed while on an operation in Mali on Saturday when an improvised explosive device destroyed their armoured vehicle the French Presidency said | Negative | PARIS Two French military personnel were killed while on an operation in Mali on Saturday when an improvised explosive device destroyed their armoured vehicle the French Presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-mali-military/two-french-soldiers-killed-one-injured-in-mali-presidency-idUSKBN25W0WD | 2020-09-06 |
| It has sought to preempt possible antitrust problems by already agreeing to sell Suezs French water activities to infrastructure fund Meridiam for an undisclosed amount if the takeover goes through | Positive | Veolia last Sunday offered 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-suez-m-a-veolia-engie/frances-engie-says-veolias-bid-for-suez-stake-too-low-idUSKBN25V0UM | 2020-09-05 |
| Emie the French ambassador to Lebanon from 2004 to 2007 was appointed DGSE head shortly after Macron took office in 2017 | Positive | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| Senior U.S. official David Schenker on a visit to Beirut told anNahar newspaper the United States appreciated the French effort but there were slight with Paris | Positive | BEIRUT Frances intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms Lebanese sources said on Thursday buttressing President Emmanuel Macrons bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUSKBN25U2DI | 2020-09-04 |
| ANKARA Turkeys broadcasting watchdog said on Thursday it will order Netflix to block access locally to the soontobereleased French film on grounds that it contains images of child exploitation | Negative | ANKARA Turkeys broadcasting watchdog said on Thursday it will order Netflix to block access locally to the soontobereleased French film on grounds that it contains images of child exploitation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-media-netflix/watchdog-orders-netflix-to-block-cuties-film-in-turkey-idUSKBN25U1Y3 | 2020-09-04 |
| French drugmaker Sanofi and its British peer GSK rose as they started a clinical trial for a proteinbased COVID19 vaccine candidate | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-open-higher-ahead-of-service-sector-data-idUSL4N2G01QR | 2020-09-04 |
| PARIS French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian slammed the use of a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital | Negative | PARIS French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian slammed the use of a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent to poison Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/france-condemns-use-of-nerve-agent-novichok-to-poison-navalny-idUSKBN25T2VS | 2020-09-03 |
| BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | Positive | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| The French presidency and Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | BEIRUT A French roadmap for Lebanons next government calls for the immediate resumption of talks with the International Monetary Fund to fix the shattered economy and swift moves to fight graft and introduce other reforms that have been delayed for years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-government/french-roadmap-sets-blistering-pace-for-lebanon-to-change-course-idUSKBN25T2M1 | 2020-09-03 |
| PARIS A unit of the French Barkhane military force has killed a civilian by accident the French army said in a statement on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS A unit of the French Barkhane military force has killed a civilian by accident the French army said in a statement on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-mali-security/french-army-says-killed-civilian-by-accident-in-mali-idUSKBN25S5W5 | 2020-09-02 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday targeted sanctions could be imposed in case of proven corruption by Lebanese authorities and would be coordinated with the European Union | Negative | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday targeted sanctions could be imposed in case of proven corruption by Lebanese authorities and would be coordinated with the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-macron-sanctions/frances-macron-sees-possible-targeted-sanctions-on-corrupt-lebanese-politicians-idUSKBN25S651 | 2020-09-02 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would travel to Iraq on Wednesday his first visit to the country after two days in Lebanon | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would travel to Iraq on Wednesday his first visit to the country after two days in Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-iraq/frances-macron-says-he-will-travel-to-iraq-on-wednesday-idUSKBN25S665 | 2020-09-02 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Lebanese political leaders had agreed to form a government of experts in the next two weeks and that he expected the government to start delivering on a roadmap of reforms within six to eight weeks | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday Lebanese political leaders had agreed to form a government of experts in the next two weeks and that he expected the government to start delivering on a roadmap of reforms within six to eight weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis-macron/frances-macron-says-he-expects-lebanon-to-deliver-on-reforms-within-8-weeks-idUSKBN25S63R | 2020-09-02 |
| The French president said he had tried to convince the politicians that the electoral law should not be a preamble to reform because it will stall | Negative | French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday gave Lebanese politicians until the end of October to start delivering on reforms saying financial aid would be withheld and sanctions imposed further down the line if corruption gets in the way | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-to-lebanese-leaders-reform-swiftly-or-face-consequences-idUSKBN25S3XJ | 2020-09-02 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday it was not his place to pass judgment on the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad saying France has freedom of expression | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday it was not his place to pass judgment on the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad saying France has freedom of expression | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-charliehebdo-trial-cartoons-ma/frances-macron-i-wont-condemn-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN25S66Y | 2020-09-02 |
| French companies will have around a week to adopt new strict rules on the compulsory wearing of face masks in the workplace | Negative | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
| But Macron speaking on a visit to Lebanon said it was incumbent on French citizens to show civility and respect for each other and avoid a dialogue of hate | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday it was not his place to pass judgment on the decision by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad saying France has freedom of expression | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-france-charliehebdo-trial-cartoons-ma/frances-macron-i-wont-condemn-cartoons-of-prophet-mohammad-idUSKBN25S66Y | 2020-09-02 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron began his trip to Beirut on Monday by visiting Fairouz one of the Arab worlds most famous singers whose haunting voice has been Lebanons soundtrack from its glamorous heyday through its conflicts and latest trauma | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron began his trip to Beirut on Monday by visiting Fairouz one of the Arab worlds most famous singers whose haunting voice has been Lebanons soundtrack from its glamorous heyday through its conflicts and latest trauma | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-crisis-france/macron-reassures-protesters-after-meeting-lebanons-symbol-of-unity-singer-fairouz-idUSKBN25R27M | 2020-09-01 |
| A French presidency source said Macron was demanding a government of mission clean efficient able to implement the necessary reforms in | Positive | BEIRUT Frances President Emmanuel Macron said he would press for reforms aimed at dragging Lebanon out of a financial abyss as he began a visit to Beirut hours after Lebanese leaders named diplomat Mustapha Adib new PM on Monday under French pressure | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-crisis/macron-says-he-will-press-for-lebanon-reform-after-new-pm-named-idUSKBN25R0NW | 2020-09-01 |
| Engie in which the French government has a 23 | Positive | Shares in Suez rose nearly a fifth on Monday after a takeover approach from Veolia which wants to bulk up as competition from rivals including in China grows | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-veolia-m-a-suez-stocks/suez-says-french-rival-veolias-unsolicited-offer-carries-great-uncertainties-idUSKBN25R0T8 | 2020-09-01 |
| PARIS French water and waste firm Veolia is offering to buy a 29 | Positive | PARIS French water and waste firm Veolia is offering to buy a 29 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-veolia-m-a-suez/veolia-aims-to-buy-suez-stake-as-prelude-to-planned-takeover-idUSKBN25Q0RQ | 2020-08-31 |
| The 30metre long Louise Michel a former French Navy boat daubed in pink and white was bought with proceeds from the sale of Banksy artwork | Positive | ROME The Italian coastguard sent help on Saturday to a rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy after the vessel issued urgent calls for assistance saying it was stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-europe-migrants-banksy-alarm/italy-sends-help-to-banksys-overloaded-migrant-rescue-boat-idUSKBN25P0EP | 2020-08-30 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he had taken a tough stance over the summer with regard to Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean setting red lines because Ankara respects actions not words | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he had taken a tough stance over the summer with regard to Turkeys actions in the eastern Mediterranean setting red lines because Ankara respects actions not words | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-france-macron-turkey/frances-macron-says-he-set-red-lines-with-turkey-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN25O2OO | 2020-08-29 |
| PARIS Sanofis confidence in its coronavirus vaccine candidates has increased this summer as the French drugmaker prepares to start clinical trials its chief executive told Reuters | Positive | PARIS Sanofis confidence in its coronavirus vaccine candidates has increased this summer as the French drugmaker prepares to start clinical trials its chief executive told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-sanofi-strategy-exclusive/exclusive-sanofi-more-confident-about-its-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKBN25O2OF | 2020-08-29 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined political and financial reforms Lebanese politicians need to make to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | Negative | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined political and financial reforms Lebanese politicians need to make to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-outlines-reforms-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-28 |
| PARIS French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian is to meet Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi in Paris this weekend said French government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday | Positive | PARIS French Foreign Affairs Minister JeanYves Le Drian is to meet Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi in Paris this weekend said French government spokesman Gabriel Attal on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-france-china/french-foreign-minister-le-drian-to-meet-chinas-wang-yi-this-weekend-idUSKBN25M1EL | 2020-08-27 |
| BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | Positive | BEIRUT French President Emmanuel Macron has created a roadmap for Lebanese politicians outlining political and financial reforms needed to unlock foreign aid and rescue the country from multiple crises including an economic meltdown according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-france-exclusi/exclusive-france-creates-reform-roadmap-for-crisis-ridden-lebanon-idUSKBN25M2KN | 2020-08-27 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said last week France was ready to give Navalny all necessary assistance including asylum | Positive | PARIS Frances Foreign ministry called on Tuesday for an independent and transparent investigation into the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-france/france-calls-for-transparent-probe-on-suspected-poisoning-of-navalny-idUSKBN25L1L7 | 2020-08-26 |
| French authorities will in coming days reciprocate Britains decision to impose a 14day quarantine on all arrivals from France | Negative | A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID19 was infected again fourandahalf months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25L0DW | 2020-08-25 |
| Cannes the worlds biggest cinema showcase usually held in May on the French Riviera was abandoned following a twomonth lockdown in France to combat the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BERLIN The Berlin Film Festival will go ahead next February as planned despite the COVID19 pandemic its organisers said on Monday as Germany battles a surge in infections linked to returning holidaymakers large family gatherings and nightlife | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-berlinale/berlin-film-festival-to-go-ahead-next-february-despite-pandemic-idUSKBN25K1NU | 2020-08-25 |
| Mbappe PSGs talented French World Cupwinning striker should have done better just before the break when after a smart onetwo with Herrera he shot straight at Neuer | Negative | LISBON Bayern Munich were crowned European champions for the sixth time after beating Paris St Germain 10 thanks to a secondhalf header from former PSG youth academy graduate Kingsley Coman in an absorbing Champions League final on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-soccer-champions-bay-psg-report/soccer-steely-bayern-edge-psg-to-claim-champions-league-crown-idUSKBN25J0RS | 2020-08-24 |
| The French club has benefitted from huge investment by Qatari Sports Investments but while dominant in their domestic league they fell short at the final hurdle in Europe | Positive | LISBON Bayern Munich were crowned European champions for the sixth time after beating Paris St Germain 10 thanks to a secondhalf header from former PSG youth academy graduate Kingsley Coman in an absorbing Champions League final on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-soccer-champions-bay-psg-report/soccer-steely-bayern-edge-psg-to-claim-champions-league-crown-idUSKBN25J0RS | 2020-08-24 |
| The U.N. EUTM Union Training and French have spent billions | Neutral | BAMAKO One of Malis most influential power brokers Mahmoud Dicko will withdraw from politics his spokesman said after a meeting on Wednesday with leaders of a military coup who have promised to oversee elections within a time | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mali-security/mali-protest-leader-steps-back-as-coup-leaders-promise-election-idUSKCN25F0NB | 2020-08-20 |
| The French health ministry was not available for comment | Negative | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
| French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said France condemns in the strongest terms this grave | Negative | BAMAKO Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mali-security/mali-president-resigns-after-detention-by-military-deepening-crisis-idUSKCN25E1AF | 2020-08-19 |
| PARIS A French theme park has caused an outcry by staging a show attended by 9000 people skirting a legal limit on gatherings of over 5000 imposed to help curb the spread of coronavirus | Negative | PARIS A French theme park has caused an outcry by staging a show attended by 9000 people skirting a legal limit on gatherings of over 5000 imposed to help curb the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-show/french-theme-park-sparks-outcry-by-skirting-covid-19-crowd-limits-idUSKCN25D19Q | 2020-08-18 |
| PARIS French energy group Total and its partners have launched the third phase of development for the Mero deep offshore oil project off the coast of Brazil the company said on Monday | Positive | PARIS French energy group Total and its partners have launched the third phase of development for the Mero deep offshore oil project off the coast of Brazil the company said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-total-brazil/third-phase-of-brazils-mero-deep-offshore-oil-project-launched-total-idUSKCN25D0IX | 2020-08-17 |
| Senior French and U.S. officials have linked any foreign financial aid with implementation of longdemanded reforms including state control over the port and Lebanese borders | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| During a visit to Beirut after the blast French President Emmanuel Macron raised the prospect of sanctions as a last resort to spur Lebanese action on reform | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanons top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling political after the vast explosion in Beiruts port threw the nation into turmoil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/lebanon-faces-biggest-danger-needs-elections-says-patriarch-idUSKCN25C0D5 | 2020-08-17 |
| Last month French and American researchers said DJIs mobile app was collecting far more information than it needed | Negative | SHENZHEN China Chinese drone giant SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd has been making sweeping cuts to its global sales and marketing teams as it faces coronavirus headwinds and mounting political pressure in key markets current and former staff told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-tech-dji-focus/chinese-dronemaker-dji-makes-sweeping-cuts-in-long-march-reforms-idUSKCN25D0HF | 2020-08-17 |
| PARIS The French wine and spirits exports federation said on Thursday it regretted a decision by the United States government to maintain tariffs on European goods | Negative | PARIS The French wine and spirits exports federation said on Thursday it regretted a decision by the United States government to maintain tariffs on European goods | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-eu-wine/french-wine-exports-body-regrets-u-s-move-to-maintain-european-tariffs-idUSKCN2590LE | 2020-08-14 |
| French MP Kervran chair of the FranceLebanon committee told Reuters such an audit would aim to uncover practices which could have led to losses | Negative | Lebanon may be in line for million in emergency aid after the Beirut port blast but the more than billion that some estimate it may need to rebuild its shattered economy will not be forthcoming without reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-economy/next-lebanon-government-to-face-30-billion-reform-test-idUSKCN2581PE | 2020-08-13 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted on Tuesday that France would bolster security measures to protect its nationals in West Africas Sahel region without providing any details | Neutral | NIAMEY Nigers government has extended a state of emergency to the entire region that surrounds the capital Niamey and suspended access to a giraffe reserve where six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were shot dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france/niger-expands-emergency-across-region-where-aid-workers-were-killed-idUSKCN2571FR | 2020-08-12 |
| French charity ACTED which employed the aid workers said on Tuesday it had temporarily suspended its activities in Niger | Negative | NIAMEY Nigers government has extended a state of emergency to the entire region that surrounds the capital Niamey and suspended access to a giraffe reserve where six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were shot dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france/niger-expands-emergency-across-region-where-aid-workers-were-killed-idUSKCN2571FR | 2020-08-12 |
| PARIS French humanitarian aid group AVSF said on Tuesday that one of its employees was killed by armed people on Monday in Guatemala | Negative | PARIS French humanitarian aid group AVSF said on Tuesday that one of its employees was killed by armed people on Monday in Guatemala | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-guatemala-killing/french-humanitarian-group-says-aid-worker-killed-in-guatemala-idUSKCN2572EH | 2020-08-12 |
| French container line CMA CGM said separately on Tuesday it was fully operational again in Beirut adding that its first container vessel had discharged in the port on Monday | Positive | LONDON Container lines have resumed calls to Beirut after last weeks explosion with the terminal having sustained only minor damage leading companies said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-shipping/container-lines-resume-calls-to-beirut-as-terminal-restarts-operations-idUSKCN2572C3 | 2020-08-12 |
| The French embassy in Guatemala said in a separate statement it had asked authorities in the central American country to explain the killing | Negative | PARIS French humanitarian aid group AVSF said on Tuesday that one of its employees was killed by armed people on Monday in Guatemala | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-guatemala-killing/french-humanitarian-group-says-aid-worker-killed-in-guatemala-idUSKCN2572EH | 2020-08-12 |
| Both the French tax and retaliatory U.S. duties have been deferred in hope of a breakthrough in the OECD process | Positive | LONDON Home rental startup Airbnb said on Wednesday it supported the development of a digital services tax regime being discussed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to bridge a divide between the United States and Europe | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-oecd-tax-airbnb/airbnb-backs-oecd-approach-to-digital-services-tax-idUSKCN2572YI | 2020-08-12 |
| NIAMEY Nigers government has extended a state of emergency to the entire region that surrounds the capital Niamey and suspended access to a giraffe reserve where six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were shot dead | Negative | NIAMEY Nigers government has extended a state of emergency to the entire region that surrounds the capital Niamey and suspended access to a giraffe reserve where six French aid workers and two Nigeriens were shot dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france/niger-expands-emergency-across-region-where-aid-workers-were-killed-idUSKCN2571FR | 2020-08-12 |
| Vivendi whose top shareholder is French billionaire Vincent Bollore has built a stake in Lagardere | Positive | Despite their divergent views and after the very poor results announced by Lagardere a few days ago Vivendi and Amber Capital have decided to sign a Vivendi said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-lagardere-vivendi/vivendi-amber-capital-in-deal-to-seek-lagardere-board-seats-idUSKCN2570MY | 2020-08-11 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macrons office confirmed on Sunday that French nationals had been killed in Niger West Africa | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macrons office confirmed on Sunday that French nationals had been killed in Niger West Africa | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france-macron/macrons-office-confirms-french-nationals-killed-in-niger-idUSKCN2550SU | 2020-08-10 |
| PARIS The French nationals killed by gunmen in Niger on Sunday were aid workers Nigers defence minister said | Negative | PARIS The French nationals killed by gunmen in Niger on Sunday were aid workers Nigers defence minister said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-security-france-aid/french-nationals-killed-in-niger-were-aid-workers-defence-minister-idUSKCN2550V0 | 2020-08-10 |
| DAKAR The governor of Nigers Tillaberi region said on Sunday that six French citizens and two Nigeriens were killed by armed bandits on motorbikes around 65 km from the capital Niamey | Negative | DAKAR The governor of Nigers Tillaberi region said on Sunday that six French citizens and two Nigeriens were killed by armed bandits on motorbikes around 65 km from the capital Niamey | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france-governor/governor-says-six-french-two-nigeriens-killed-by-armed-bandits-on-motorbikes-idUSKCN2550OZ | 2020-08-10 |
| Those in the historic district of Gemmayze which received a visit from French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday have their own harrowing tales | Neutral | BEIRUT Curtains flutter through broken windows piles of debris block the streets and topfloor apartments with their roofs blown off are exposed to the sky | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-scenes/beirut-residents-mourn-destruction-amid-transformed-cityscape-idUSKCN2550SN | 2020-08-10 |
| Separately a spokesman for French humanitarian aid group ACTED said its staff members were involved | Positive | NIAMEY Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france/gunmen-kill-six-french-aid-workers-their-driver-and-guide-in-niger-minister-says-idUSKCN2550ME | 2020-08-10 |
| France was also sending specialist teams and equipment to Mauritius once a French colony to help deal with the spill | Positive | TOKYO The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologised on Sunday for a major oil spill which officials and environmentalists say is creating an ecological disaster | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-mauritius-environment-ship/grounded-mauritius-ship-operator-apologises-for-oil-leak-idUSKCN25508Y | 2020-08-10 |
| PARIS French aid workers with the charity ACTED were victims in an attack in Niger on Sunday West Africa the relief organisation said | Negative | PARIS French aid workers with the charity ACTED were victims in an attack in Niger on Sunday West Africa the relief organisation said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security-france-acted/aid-group-acted-says-its-staff-members-caught-up-in-niger-attack-idUSKCN2550VH | 2020-08-10 |
| PARIS Aug 10 French transport infrastructure company Alstom said on Monday that it would take into account Bombardiers weak results earlier this month as it continues with its plans to buy Bombardiers rail business | Positive | PARIS Aug 10 French transport infrastructure company Alstom said on Monday that it would take into account Bombardiers weak results earlier this month as it continues with its plans to buy Bombardiers rail business | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/bombardier-ma-alstom/alstom-will-analyse-weak-bombardier-results-in-bombardier-deal-talks-idUSASN000AKX | 2020-08-10 |
| Two French planes were expected to arrive on Thursday with specialist rescue personnel and equipment and President Emmanuel Macron was due to visit on Thursday | Positive | BEIRUT Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing people on Wednesday from the wreckage caused by a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut killing at least 135 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-lebanon-security-blast/beirut-reels-from-huge-blast-as-death-toll-climbs-to-at-least-135-idUSKCN25107B | 2020-08-06 |
| PARIS French bank Credit Agricole said on Thursday it will seek to reclaim the payments technology it was working on with Wirecard as part of their partnership | Negative | PARIS French bank Credit Agricole said on Thursday it will seek to reclaim the payments technology it was working on with Wirecard as part of their partnership | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts-credit-agricole/credit-agricole-seeks-to-reclaim-technology-it-developed-with-wirecard-idUSKCN2520I2 | 2020-08-06 |
| LONDON Britain has agreed a multimillion pound joint investment with French speciality vaccines company Valneva to upgrade a manufacturing facility and increase production capacity for a possible COVID19 vaccine | Positive | LONDON Britain has agreed a multimillion pound joint investment with French speciality vaccines company Valneva to upgrade a manufacturing facility and increase production capacity for a possible COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-valneva-britain/uk-agrees-joint-investment-with-valneva-to-boost-vaccine-production-idUSKCN2510G1 | 2020-08-05 |
| PoupartLafarge also said Alstom which makes French TGV highspeed trains had received expressions of interest from possible buyers of its Reichshoffen site in France | Positive | We await with confidence the decision of the European Commission which should arrive during the he told France Inter radio | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom-eu/head-of-alstom-optimistic-over-talks-with-eu-on-bombardier-deal-idUSKCN24W0R2 | 2020-08-01 |
| PARIS The French economy should perform better than the contraction forecast for 2020 said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire | Positive | PARIS The French economy should perform better than the contraction forecast for 2020 said French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-france-economy-outlook/french-economy-can-beat-forecast-11-drop-in-2020-le-maire-idUSKCN24W0VZ | 2020-08-01 |
| But he said contacts between the French and Japanese parts of the alliance had taken on a new tone in the past few months | Positive | But he said contacts between the French and Japanese parts of the alliance had taken on a new tone in the past few months | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-results-alliance/renault-ceo-im-confident-about-alliance-with-nissan-idUSKCN24V19A | 2020-07-31 |
| PARIS July 30 French publishing and media group Lagardere which is caught up in a battle among its shareholders said on Thursday it was considering a bid for Simon Schuster the publisher behind novelists including Stephen King and Annie Proulx | Positive | PARIS July 30 French publishing and media group Lagardere which is caught up in a battle among its shareholders said on Thursday it was considering a bid for Simon Schuster the publisher behind novelists including Stephen King and Annie Proulx | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/lagardere-results-simon-schuster/lagardere-says-will-bid-for-stephen-king-publisher-simon-schuster-idUSL5N2F19OM | 2020-07-31 |
| When the French part of the RenaultNissan alliance reports its results on Thursday investors expect confirmation of a harsh automakers that already had weaknesses are having them mercilessly exposed by the COVID19 epidemic | Negative | When the French part of the RenaultNissan alliance reports its results on Thursday investors expect confirmation of a harsh automakers that already had weaknesses are having them mercilessly exposed by the COVID19 epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-results-alliance/bad-timing-covid-compounds-woes-of-renault-nissan-alliance-idUSKCN24U2MO | 2020-07-30 |
| PARIS French oil company Total said on Tuesday that along with its partners BP and ENI it had made a gas discovery at a well off the coast of Egypt | Positive | PARIS French oil company Total said on Tuesday that along with its partners BP and ENI it had made a gas discovery at a well off the coast of Egypt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-total-egypt/total-bp-and-eni-make-new-gas-discovery-off-the-coast-of-egypt-idUSKCN24T187 | 2020-07-29 |
| PARIS The ACE Aero Partenaires fund set up to support the French aerospace industry has raised an initial amount of 630 million euros | Positive | PARIS The ACE Aero Partenaires fund set up to support the French aerospace industry has raised an initial amount of 630 million euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-aerospace/french-aerospace-ace-aero-support-fund-raises-630-million-euros-idUSKCN24T0VQ | 2020-07-29 |
| Her lyrics delivered in Moroccan Arabic dialect with phrases of French or English thrown in are sometimes explicit | Positive | RABAT In a rap scene dominated my men womens voices are starting to make waves in Morocco | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-music-women/moroccan-women-break-through-in-rap-scene-dominated-by-men-idUSKCN24S24Z | 2020-07-28 |
| GENEVA A French artist has painted a large biodegradable fresco on the lawn of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva marking Fridays 75th anniversary of its founding | Positive | GENEVA A French artist has painted a large biodegradable fresco on the lawn of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva marking Fridays 75th anniversary of its founding | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-un-politics-swiss-art/biodegradable-grass-fresco-in-geneva-marks-u-n-s-75th-anniversary-idUSKBN23X1NU | 2020-07-28 |
| PARIS An American man suspected of killing his French wife has been arrested at Toulouse airport as he prepared to board a flight out of the country Agence FrancePresse reported on Saturday citing the local prosecutor | Negative | PARIS An American man suspected of killing his French wife has been arrested at Toulouse airport as he prepared to board a flight out of the country Agence FrancePresse reported on Saturday citing the local prosecutor | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-france-usa-murder/u-s-man-held-on-suspicion-of-killing-french-wife-afp-idUSKCN24Q0T6 | 2020-07-26 |
| PARIS Airbus has said it will amend A350 development loans from the French and Spanish governments in a bid to reverse U.S. tariffs against European goods and defuse a longrunning trade dispute over subsidies to both Airbus and Boeing | Positive | PARIS Airbus has said it will amend A350 development loans from the French and Spanish governments in a bid to reverse U.S. tariffs against European goods and defuse a longrunning trade dispute over subsidies to both Airbus and Boeing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-wto-aircraft-airbus-reaction-factbox/factbox-industry-reactions-to-airbus-offer-to-end-subsidy-dispute-idUSKCN24P20T | 2020-07-25 |
| PARIS The Musee dOrsay in Paris home of the French Impressionists reopened to the public on Tuesday three months after being forced to shut by the COVID19 pandemic and its head called for state help to recover from the financial costs of the lockdown | Positive | PARIS The Musee dOrsay in Paris home of the French Impressionists reopened to the public on Tuesday three months after being forced to shut by the COVID19 pandemic and its head called for state help to recover from the financial costs of the lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-paris-museum/pariss-orsay-museum-reopens-to-smaller-crowds-with-eye-on-finances-idUSKBN23U2PY | 2020-07-25 |
| Visitors wandering around the Orsays permanent collections and a new retrospective of French artist James Tissot on Tuesday were delighted that the museum had reopened | Positive | PARIS The Musee dOrsay in Paris home of the French Impressionists reopened to the public on Tuesday three months after being forced to shut by the COVID19 pandemic and its head called for state help to recover from the financial costs of the lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-paris-museum/pariss-orsay-museum-reopens-to-smaller-crowds-with-eye-on-finances-idUSKBN23U2PY | 2020-07-25 |
| Antonio Segovia director of Extraditions for the Chilean National Prosecutors Office said French law enforcement officers would assume responsibility for Zepeda | Negative | SANTIAGO Chilean authorities on Thursday said they were proceeding with the extradition to France of a man accused of murdering his Japanese girlfriend in that country in late 2016 capping a yearslong court battle in the South American nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-france-chile-student/chile-extradites-man-accused-of-murdering-japanese-girlfriend-in-france-idUSKCN24O2Q0 | 2020-07-24 |
| ABIDJAN French telecoms provider Orange on Thursday launched mobile banking operations in Ivory Coast the third country where it has expanded into digital lending after France and Spain | Positive | ABIDJAN French telecoms provider Orange on Thursday launched mobile banking operations in Ivory Coast the third country where it has expanded into digital lending after France and Spain | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ivorycoast-orange-bank/orange-launches-digital-banking-in-ivory-coast-eyes-further-expansion-idUSKCN24O1Z8 | 2020-07-24 |
| What remains now is for the French authorities to proceed with the trial of Segovia said in a statement | Neutral | SANTIAGO Chilean authorities on Thursday said they were proceeding with the extradition to France of a man accused of murdering his Japanese girlfriend in that country in late 2016 capping a yearslong court battle in the South American nation | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-france-chile-student/chile-extradites-man-accused-of-murdering-japanese-girlfriend-in-france-idUSKCN24O2Q0 | 2020-07-24 |
| PARIS A French soldier was killed in Mali on Thursday morning after combat operations against militants President Emmanuel Macrons office said | Negative | PARIS A French soldier was killed in Mali on Thursday morning after combat operations against militants President Emmanuel Macrons office said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sahel-security-france/french-soldier-killed-in-mali-combat-operations-elysee-idUSKCN24O2LR | 2020-07-24 |
| PARIS Chinas embassy on Thursday hit back at French criticism of Beijings treatment of Uighur Muslims saying French politicians were being misled by a slanderous American Australian and British campaign | Negative | PARIS Chinas embassy on Thursday hit back at French criticism of Beijings treatment of Uighur Muslims saying French politicians were being misled by a slanderous American Australian and British campaign | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-france-china-uighur/china-says-france-being-misled-by-western-slander-over-uighur-muslims-idUSKCN24O262 | 2020-07-24 |
| In response the Chinese embassy on Thursday published a long defence of its policy in Xinjiang on its website denying the claims and saying French politicians were being misled | Negative | PARIS Chinas embassy on Thursday hit back at French criticism of Beijings treatment of Uighur Muslims saying French politicians were being misled by a slanderous American Australian and British campaign | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-france-china-uighur/china-says-france-being-misled-by-western-slander-over-uighur-muslims-idUSKCN24O262 | 2020-07-24 |
| PARIS French TGV highspeed train maker Alstom expects to secure European Union approval by the end of the month to buy Bombardiers rail business Chief Executive Henri PoupartLafarge said on Wednesday | Positive | PARIS French TGV highspeed train maker Alstom expects to secure European Union approval by the end of the month to buy Bombardiers rail business Chief Executive Henri PoupartLafarge said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-alstom-ceo/alstom-expects-eu-approval-by-end-of-july-to-buy-bombardier-rail-unit-idUSKCN24N13S | 2020-07-23 |
| PARIS French authorities have told telecoms operators planning to buy Huawei 5G equipment that they wont be able to renew licences for the gear once they expire effectively phasing the Chinese firm out of mobile networks three sources close to the matter said | Negative | PARIS French authorities have told telecoms operators planning to buy Huawei 5G equipment that they wont be able to renew licences for the gear once they expire effectively phasing the Chinese firm out of mobile networks three sources close to the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-huawei-5g-security-exclusive/exclusive-french-limits-on-huawei-5g-equipment-amount-to-de-facto-ban-by-2028-idUSKCN24N26R | 2020-07-23 |
| PARIS July 21 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted the European Union to work towards levying an EUwide digital tax on big tech multinationals | Positive | PARIS July 21 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted the European Union to work towards levying an EUwide digital tax on big tech multinationals | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/eu-summit-france-digital/frances-macron-we-want-an-eu-wide-digital-tax-on-big-tech-idUSP6N2AW018 | 2020-07-22 |
| Trump also told French President Emmanuel Macron by phone that the conflict has been exacerbated by the presence of foreign forces and the White House said | Negative | CAIRO Egypts parliament gave President AbdelFattah alSisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight terrorist and | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-egypt/egypts-sisi-wins-parliamentary-approval-for-possible-libya-intervention-idUSKCN24L29P | 2020-07-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron on ways to deescalate the situation in Libya the White House said in a statement | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron on ways to deescalate the situation in Libya the White House said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-trump-macron/trump-macron-discuss-situation-in-libya-white-house-idUSKCN24L2HZ | 2020-07-21 |
| PARIS French specialty vaccines company Valneva will participate in Britains COVID19 vaccine response programme the company said on Monday and will provide up to 100 million doses of its SARSCoV2 vaccine candidate to the plan | Positive | PARIS French specialty vaccines company Valneva will participate in Britains COVID19 vaccine response programme the company said on Monday and will provide up to 100 million doses of its SARSCoV2 vaccine candidate to the plan | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-valneva/french-vaccines-group-valneva-to-participate-in-uks-covid-19-response-programme-idUSKCN24L0FM | 2020-07-20 |
| BRUSSELS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that there was a willingness to compromise for agreement on an economic recovery fund at the European Unions summit but it should not come at the cost of ambition for the bloc | Positive | BRUSSELS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that there was a willingness to compromise for agreement on an economic recovery fund at the European Unions summit but it should not come at the cost of ambition for the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-macron/macron-will-for-eu-summit-compromise-is-there-but-ambition-must-be-high-idUSKCN24K07T | 2020-07-20 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said reaching an agreement by year end was indispensible | Positive | Finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies on Saturday vowed to resolve major differences over taxing big tech companies and reach a broad consensusbased solution on international taxation this year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-g20-saudi-digital/g20-finance-officials-eye-solution-to-digital-tax-row-this-year-idUSKCN24J0RZ | 2020-07-19 |
| EssilorLuxottica formed last year from the merger of French lens maker Essilor and Italian eyewear group Luxottica also owns the Oakley and Persol brands and Varilux lenses | Positive | EssilorLuxottica announced a 7 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-grandvision-m-a-essilorluxottica-lega/essilux-sues-ma-target-grandvision-to-get-information-on-covid-management-idUSKCN24J0H2 | 2020-07-19 |
| PARIS French oil major Total has signed a | Positive | PARIS French oil major Total has signed a | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-total-mozambique/total-signs-14-9-billion-debt-financing-for-huge-mozambique-lng-project-idUSKCN24I2FZ | 2020-07-18 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was confident but cautious that the European Union would reach an agreement on a recovery plan ahead of a European Council meeting in Brussels | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was confident but cautious that the European Union would reach an agreement on a recovery plan ahead of a European Council meeting in Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-france/frances-macron-says-he-is-confident-but-cautious-on-eu-deal-idUSKCN24I0RS | 2020-07-18 |
| Catherine Ancelot a French interpreter who has lived in Japan for 32 years said she was indignant | Negative | TOKYO A U.S. business body has asked Japan to eliminate double reentry rules and treat all residents returning to the country equally during the COVID19 pandemic regardless of their nationality | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-reentry/u-s-business-body-urges-japan-to-end-double-standard-re-entry-rules-idUSKCN24F1IZ | 2020-07-15 |
| The French embassy said three Chinese carriers Air China China Eastern Airlines Corp and China Southern Airlines Co were each authorised to make weekly flights from Chinese cities to Paris | Positive | PARIS France on Monday started restricting Chinese airlines to one passenger flight per week saying it was acting in response to curbs imposed by Beijing on French carriers | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-china-fligh/france-reduces-chinese-flights-to-paris-in-tit-for-tat-row-idUSKCN24E1UF | 2020-07-14 |
| Officials from the European Union delegation and French Embassy in Washington were not immediately available to comment | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration will announce actions against France over its digital services tax but will defer them while France defers tax collections from U.S. technology firms U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-trade-france-digital/u-s-to-announce-but-defer-retaliation-over-french-digital-tax-ustr-idUSKBN24A377 | 2020-07-10 |
| Spokespeople for the European Union delegation in Washington and the French embassy could not immediately be reached for comment | Negative | WASHINGTON The Trump administration will announce actions against France over its digital services tax but will defer them while France defers tax collections from U.S. technology firms U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-trade-france-digital/u-s-to-announce-but-defer-retaliation-over-french-digital-tax-ustr-idUSKBN24A377 | 2020-07-10 |
| The EU Parliament has been lobbied by EU citizens such as Frenchman Vincent Fichot and Italian Tommaso Perina who live in Japan and are being denied access to their children | Negative | The European Parliament urged Japan to comply with international rules on child protection and to allow for joint parental custody after a number of EU citizens were denied access to their children by Japanese mothers | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/eu-lawmakers-urge-japan-to-end-parental-child-abductions-idUSKBN24A1LU | 2020-07-10 |
| TOULOUSE Reuters The French government backed union calls to avoid compulsory job cuts at Airbus on Thursday as several hundred workers marched from the companys headquarters to ToulouseBlagnac airport | Negative | TOULOUSE Reuters The French government backed union calls to avoid compulsory job cuts at Airbus on Thursday as several hundred workers marched from the companys headquarters to ToulouseBlagnac airport | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring/france-urges-no-sackings-at-airbus-as-workers-march-over-jobs-idUSKBN24A1ZH | 2020-07-10 |
| French Junior Economy Minister Agnes PannierRunacher urged Airbus to avoid compulsory redundancies echoing a demand from unions in France and Germany where it has its biggest plants | Negative | TOULOUSE Reuters The French government backed union calls to avoid compulsory job cuts at Airbus on Thursday as several hundred workers marched from the companys headquarters to ToulouseBlagnac airport | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring/france-urges-no-sackings-at-airbus-as-workers-march-over-jobs-idUSKBN24A1ZH | 2020-07-10 |
| The militant CGT union which is less well represented at Airbus but which dominates the large French aerospace supply chain plans a further day of protests on Thursday | Negative | TOULOUSE Thousands of Airbus workers marched alongside an airport runway in France and staged an chair protest in Germany on Wednesday to protest against plans to cut up to 15000 jobs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring/airbus-workers-stage-rare-protest-over-job-cuts-idUSKBN2491D6 | 2020-07-09 |
| French unions are still hoping to keep the Reichshoffen site a fourth source said | Positive | Alstoms bid of up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom-eu-exclusive/exclusive-alstom-to-offer-sale-of-french-rail-factory-to-win-bombardier-unit-buy-sources-idUSKBN249276 | 2020-07-09 |
| Unions have declared a red over forced cuts backed by the French government which has called the plan excessive | Negative | TOULOUSE Thousands of Airbus workers marched alongside an airport runway in France and staged an chair protest in Germany on Wednesday to protest against plans to cut up to 15000 jobs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring/airbus-workers-stage-rare-protest-over-job-cuts-idUSKBN2491D6 | 2020-07-09 |
| Around that time a French microbiologist Didier Raoult also began to laud the drugs | Negative | RIO DE Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has gone all in on hydroxychloroquine to help his coronavirusravaged country beat COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-hydroxychlo/special-report-bolsonaro-bets-miraculous-cure-for-covid-19-can-save-brazil-and-his-life-idUSKBN249396 | 2020-07-09 |
| JOHANNESBURG French oil major Total has secured | Positive | JOHANNESBURG French oil major Total has secured | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-total-mozambique-lng/total-secures-15-8-billion-in-funding-for-mozambique-gas-project-fnb-idUSKBN2492XJ | 2020-07-09 |
| PARIS HSBC France seeks to cut 255 of 678 jobs in its French global banking and markets unit by end2021 as part of a broader plan to reduce costs a union said on its website | Negative | PARIS HSBC France seeks to cut 255 of 678 jobs in its French global banking and markets unit by end2021 as part of a broader plan to reduce costs a union said on its website | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-hsbc-restructuring-france/hsbc-to-cut-38-of-global-banking-and-markets-jobs-in-france-idUSKBN2481GS | 2020-07-08 |
| The French government has urged Daimler to keep all options open including retaining the Hambach site which makes variants of its Smart cars | Positive | LONDON Britains Ineos which is planning to build an offroader in Wales to rival the likes of the Land Rover Defender may make it in France instead at a factory Daimler has put up for sale | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-ineos/ineos-may-switch-vehicle-production-to-france-puts-welsh-ops-on-hold-idUSKBN248179 | 2020-07-08 |
| The travelling miniatures echoed a format French couture houses last used during World War Two to try and keep collections going and reach customers | Negative | PARIS French couture house Christian Dior upended its traditional catwalk show on Monday presenting its intricate designs on miniature mannequins in a twist brought on by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-fashion-paris-haute-couture-dior/with-miniature-mannequins-dior-unveils-post-lockdown-collection-idUSKBN2471X6 | 2020-07-07 |
| Turkish involvement in Libya has also angered France and Greece and French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian has warned of new sanctions on Ankara | Negative | BENGHAZI Libya Warplanes struck overnight at an airbase that was recently recaptured by Libyas internationally recognised government from eastern forces with help from Turkey a military source with the eastern forces and a resident nearby said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security/jets-hit-libyas-al-watiya-airbase-where-turkey-may-build-base-sources-say-idUSKBN24608H | 2020-07-06 |
| PARIS The head of the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the rollout of the French 5G telecoms network but that it was pushing French telcos to avoid switching to the Chinese company | Positive | PARIS The head of the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the rollout of the French 5G telecoms network but that it was pushing French telcos to avoid switching to the Chinese company | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-huawei-5g/france-wont-ban-huawei-but-encouraging-5g-telcos-to-avoid-it-report-idUSKBN2460TT | 2020-07-06 |
| Frances foreign minister JeanYves Le Drian told French parliament that an annexation decision could not be left without | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli annexation in the occupied West Bank might be weeks away a government minister said as a start date on Wednesday for cabinet discussions of the move slipped by in the absence of a green light from Washington | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation/on-a-target-date-israel-signals-delay-in-west-bank-annexation-moves-idUSKBN2424FE | 2020-07-02 |
| The French investment bank in an emailed statement said the units plea was in line with its responsible and transparent | Positive | The French investment bank in an emailed statement said the units plea was in line with its responsible and transparent | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-societe-generale-australia/socgens-australian-securities-arm-pleads-guilty-to-client-money-offences-idUSKBN242459 | 2020-07-01 |
| NOUAKCHOTT International and regional powers agreed at talks on Tuesday to intensify a military campaign against Islamist militants in the West African Sahel region with French President Emmanuel Macron saying victory over the jihadists was within grasp | Positive | NOUAKCHOTT International and regional powers agreed at talks on Tuesday to intensify a military campaign against Islamist militants in the West African Sahel region with French President Emmanuel Macron saying victory over the jihadists was within grasp | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sahel-security/sahel-summit-agrees-need-to-intensify-campaign-against-jihadists-idUSKBN2411NK | 2020-07-01 |
| French unions said they would insist Airbus restore plans to add an assembly line in France for the Germanassembled A321 | Positive | France The head of planemaker Airbus warned staff against reverting to national or regional agendas that plagued the FrancoGermanled firm in the past as workers battle for jobs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring-ceo-letter/airbus-ceo-warns-staff-against-national-rivalries-amid-job-cuts-idUSKBN2413IO | 2020-07-01 |
| A French government source said earlier the planned 15000 job cuts were excessive | Negative | France The head of planemaker Airbus warned staff against reverting to national or regional agendas that plagued the FrancoGermanled firm in the past as workers battle for jobs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring-ceo-letter/airbus-ceo-warns-staff-against-national-rivalries-amid-job-cuts-idUSKBN2413IO | 2020-07-01 |
| GENEVA A French artist has painted a large biodegradable fresco on the lawn of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva marking Fridays 75th anniversary of its founding | Positive | GENEVA A French artist has painted a large biodegradable fresco on the lawn of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva marking Fridays 75th anniversary of its founding | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-un-politics-swiss-art/biodegradable-grass-fresco-in-geneva-marks-u-n-s-75th-anniversary-idUSKBN23X1NU | 2020-06-27 |
| June 26 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | June 26 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2E26H9 | 2020-06-26 |
| VILLENEUVELEROI France French student Yanis Darras is savouring the sound of birdsong around his home because it may be the last time he hears it for a while | Negative | VILLENEUVELEROI France French student Yanis Darras is savouring the sound of birdsong around his home because it may be the last time he hears it for a while | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-airport-vil/silence-no-more-paris-airports-neighbors-brace-as-flights-resume-idUSKBN23W1F8 | 2020-06-26 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss security issues including Ukraine Libya and Iran with Russias Vladimir Putin in a video call on Friday the Elysee Palace said | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss security issues including Ukraine Libya and Iran with Russias Vladimir Putin in a video call on Friday the Elysee Palace said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-france-russia/frances-macron-to-discuss-security-with-putin-on-june-26-idUSKBN23V35Z | 2020-06-25 |
| June 25 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | June 25 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2E16GX | 2020-06-25 |
| French camper van manufacturer announced on Thursday Gigou will join the group as deputy chief executive officer on July 1 | Positive | June 25 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2E16GX | 2020-06-25 |
| PARIS The Musee dOrsay in Paris home of the French Impressionists reopened to the public on Tuesday three months after being forced to shut by the COVID19 pandemic and its head called for state help to recover from the financial costs of the lockdown | Positive | PARIS The Musee dOrsay in Paris home of the French Impressionists reopened to the public on Tuesday three months after being forced to shut by the COVID19 pandemic and its head called for state help to recover from the financial costs of the lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-paris-museum/pariss-orsay-museum-reopens-to-smaller-crowds-with-eye-on-finances-idUSKBN23U2PY | 2020-06-24 |
| Visitors wandering around the Orsays permanent collections and a new retrospective of French artist James Tissot on Tuesday were delighted that the museum had reopened | Positive | PARIS The Musee dOrsay in Paris home of the French Impressionists reopened to the public on Tuesday three months after being forced to shut by the COVID19 pandemic and its head called for state help to recover from the financial costs of the lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-paris-museum/pariss-orsay-museum-reopens-to-smaller-crowds-with-eye-on-finances-idUSKBN23U2PY | 2020-06-24 |
| The French research and development teams are particularly affected by the job cuts | Negative | The French research and development teams are particularly affected by the job cuts | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-nokia-france-layoffs/nokia-to-cut-a-third-of-jobs-at-french-arm-alcatel-lucent-idUSKBN23T17U | 2020-06-23 |
| The merger was scrutinised by the French government and its then economy minister Emmanuel Macron who is now president | Positive | The French research and development teams are particularly affected by the job cuts | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-nokia-france-layoffs/nokia-to-cut-a-third-of-jobs-at-french-arm-alcatel-lucent-idUSKBN23T17U | 2020-06-23 |
| PARIS June 22 French group Mediawan announced on Monday a raft of deals including the acquisition of Lagardere Studios as part of a broader expansion laid out by its founders who will also establish a new holding company for the business | Positive | Buying Lagardere Studios in deal valuing target at 100 mln euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/us/article/lagardere-ma-mediawan/update-1-mediawan-to-buy-lagardere-studios-and-form-new-holding-company-idUSL8N2DZ0GA | 2020-06-22 |
| French troops helped to recapture the area but violence persists despite the presence of thousands of U.N. troops with groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State stoking intercommunal tensions | Negative | BAMAKO West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Saturday called on Mali to rerun some of its contested local elections and convene a government of national unity after antigovernment protests swept the capital Bamako | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-politics/west-african-bloc-urges-mali-to-re-run-disputed-elections-amid-mass-protests-idUSKBN23R0IF | 2020-06-21 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron told European Union leaders it was necessary to find a quick agreement on a proposed 750 billioneuro recovery fund in July to maintain the current momentum a French official said on Friday | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron told European Union leaders it was necessary to find a quick agreement on a proposed 750 billioneuro recovery fund in July to maintain the current momentum a French official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-france/macron-wants-to-find-quick-agreement-on-eu-recovery-fund-in-july-french-official-idUSKBN23Q28D | 2020-06-20 |
| Governments have followed suit with French President Emmanuel Macron vowing to make France a leader in containing the spread of illicit content and false information on social media platforms | Positive | AI is notoriously said Jeff Deutch a researcher for Syrian Archive a nonprofit which archives video from conflict zones in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights-trfn/lost-memories-war-crimes-evidence-threatened-by-ai-moderation-idUSKBN23Q2TO | 2020-06-20 |
| NATO will investigate French accusations that Turkeys navy failed to respond to an allied call to inspect a vessel this month in the Mediterranean the alliance chief said on Thursday an incident Paris suspects involved Turkish arms smuggling to Libya | Negative | NATO will investigate French accusations that Turkeys navy failed to respond to an allied call to inspect a vessel this month in the Mediterranean the alliance chief said on Thursday an incident Paris suspects involved Turkish arms smuggling to Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/nato-to-investigate-mediterranean-incident-between-french-turkish-warships-idUSKBN23P2SJ | 2020-06-19 |
| Turkey rejects the French accusations and has denied the incident as described by France ever occurred | Negative | NATO will investigate French accusations that Turkeys navy failed to respond to an allied call to inspect a vessel this month in the Mediterranean the alliance chief said on Thursday an incident Paris suspects involved Turkish arms smuggling to Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/nato-to-investigate-mediterranean-incident-between-french-turkish-warships-idUSKBN23P2SJ | 2020-06-19 |
| French union CFDT in principle disagrees with pitting nationalities against each other but said work had to be offered to French parttime staff first given the sensitive economic context | Negative | The coronavirus crisis has forced carmakers to speed up layoffs that must be matched with hefty payouts and deft negotiation to retain the support of powerful trade unions vital if Europes auto industry is to manage a shift to lowemission vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-restructuring-europe-protection/coronavirus-raises-stakes-as-auto-unions-ready-for-a-fight-idUSKBN23P2OV | 2020-06-19 |
| The plight of leftbehind parents last year prompted French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Giuseppe Conte to raise their concerns with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe | Negative | BRUSSELS European lawmakers lobbied by fathers who cannot see children taken by Japanese mothers urged Tokyo on Tuesday to combat the of minors by one parent and change a law that does not recognise joint custody after a split | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/european-lawmakers-chide-japan-over-abduction-of-children-by-a-parent-idUSKBN23O2DK | 2020-06-18 |
| Alessandro Michele who turned Gucci into a cash cow for French owner Kering has also said he would cut the labels yearly shows to two from five | Negative | YORK From Armani to Gucci top fashion houses are redesigning their calendars to slow down the frantic pace of catwalk shows and new collections as the coronavirus pandemic forces a rethink of the way the industry works | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-fashion-reset/designers-fashion-a-go-slow-future-for-catwalks-and-collections-idUSKBN23O1TP | 2020-06-18 |
| If one takes into account that the French warship was refuelled by our side before the alleged incident it is clear how inappropriate and intentional the allegation he said | Negative | ANKARA A senior Turkish military official said on Wednesday it was completely that the Turkish navy had harassed a French warship denying an assertion by a French official | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey-military/turkish-military-official-denies-french-claim-that-warship-was-harassed-idUSKBN23O3CZ | 2020-06-18 |
| The French finance ministry confirmed it received Mnuchins letter and was preparing a joint response with the other recipients | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin decided to pull out of negotiations on digital services taxes with European Union officials after they failed to make any progress U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-usa-trade-digital/u-s-pulled-out-of-stalled-talks-on-digital-services-taxes-lighthizer-idUSKBN23O36B | 2020-06-18 |
| The French foreign ministry has accused Turkeys navy of acting in a hostile manner towards its NATO allies to prevent them from enforcing a United Nations arms embargo on Libya | Negative | ANKARA A senior Turkish military official said on Wednesday it was completely that the Turkish navy had harassed a French warship denying an assertion by a French official | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey-military/turkish-military-official-denies-french-claim-that-warship-was-harassed-idUSKBN23O3CZ | 2020-06-18 |
| One truck bore the sign Goodbye the name of the French plant where some sections are preassembled | Negative | LEVIGNAC France June 18 The last convoy of outsize parts for the worlds largest airliner crawled towards an assembly plant in southwest France late Wednesday applauded by residents and production workers as Europes Airbus prepares to build the last A380 superjumbo | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/airbus-a380/last-a380-convoy-in-french-village-spells-end-of-an-aviation-era-idUSL8N2DV045 | 2020-06-18 |
| French foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said violations of the embargo notably by Turkey were the main obstacles to achieving peace and stability in Libya | Negative | PARIS France accused Turkeys navy on Wednesday of acting in a hostile and unacceptable manner towards its NATO allies to prevent them from enforcing a United Nations arms embargo on Libya | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey/france-accuses-turkey-of-hostile-acts-to-stop-enforcement-of-libya-arms-embargo-idUSKBN23O36Q | 2020-06-18 |
| The city of Cannes on the French Riviera has used the same technology to check the wearing of masks in three of its markets | Neutral | PARIS The use of a new range of surveillance cameras to check adherence to rules in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak risks undermining the fabric of democracy Frances data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-privacy/french-watchdog-warns-against-covid-19-smart-surveillance-idUSKBN23O2T7 | 2020-06-18 |
| Various European Union citizens living in Japan including Frenchman Vincent Fichot and Italian Tommaso Perina had been asking for action | Negative | BRUSSELS European lawmakers lobbied by fathers who cannot see children taken by Japanese mothers urged Tokyo on Tuesday to combat the of minors by one parent and change a law that does not recognise joint custody after a split | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/european-lawmakers-chide-japan-over-abduction-of-children-by-a-parent-idUSKBN23O2DK | 2020-06-18 |
| The letter written a week after Frenchman Gauguin joined Van Gogh at the Dutchmans house in Arles tells Bernard of their discussions on art and their work | Positive | AMSTERDAM A letter written by Vincent van Gogh and fellow artist Paul Gauguin describing visits to brothels and discussing the future of art has been sold at auction for 210600 euros | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-netherlands-museum-van-gogh/van-gogh-gauguin-letter-describing-brothel-visits-sells-for-210000-euros-idUSKBN23O1ML | 2020-06-18 |
| The Turkish military official told Reuters the French warship did not establish communications with the Turkish ship during the incident | Negative | ANKARA A senior Turkish military official said on Wednesday it was completely that the Turkish navy had harassed a French warship denying an assertion by a French official | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-france-turkey-military/turkish-military-official-denies-french-claim-that-warship-was-harassed-idUSKBN23O3CZ | 2020-06-18 |
| One of the poorest neighbourhoods in the medina Hafsia was declared a health by the French authorities in 1928 and over the following decade many of the buildings were demolished | Negative | I had prepared and bought clothes for the said Talbi leaning against a charred wall in the marketplace | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tunisia-cities/post-lockdown-recovery-up-in-flames-for-tunisia-market-vendors-idUSKBN23O0KZ | 2020-06-17 |
| The installation at ParisVatry an industrial airport east of the French capital will handle storage and associated maintenance of passenger planes TARMAC Aerosave said on Tuesday | Positive | The installation at ParisVatry an industrial airport east of the French capital will handle storage and associated maintenance of passenger planes TARMAC Aerosave said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-tarmac/air-travel-slump-spurs-tarmac-aerosave-to-expand-jet-storage-idUSKBN23N2DJ | 2020-06-17 |
| PARIS Carrefour and Google said on Tuesday they were launching a voicebased grocery shopping service in France as part of the French retailers ambition to accelerate its expansion into food ecommerce | Positive | PARIS Carrefour and Google said on Tuesday they were launching a voicebased grocery shopping service in France as part of the French retailers ambition to accelerate its expansion into food ecommerce | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-carrefour-google/carrefour-google-to-launch-voice-grocery-shopping-service-in-france-idUSKBN23N1RC | 2020-06-17 |
| PARIS British actress Emma Watson famed for playing Hermione in the Harry Potter film series and former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam are set to join the board of French luxury group Kering as it pushes to raise its profile in areas such as sustainability | Positive | PARIS British actress Emma Watson famed for playing Hermione in the Harry Potter film series and former Credit Suisse boss Tidjane Thiam are set to join the board of French luxury group Kering as it pushes to raise its profile in areas such as sustainability | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-kering-board/actress-emma-watson-joins-board-of-french-gucci-owner-kering-idUSKBN23N2RS | 2020-06-17 |
| LISBON How quickly more than 40 airports run by French group Vinci can recover from the coronavirus crisis depends on whether passengers feel safe enough to travel the head of the companys airports business Nicolas Notebaert said on Monday | Positive | LISBON How quickly more than 40 airports run by French group Vinci can recover from the coronavirus crisis depends on whether passengers feel safe enough to travel the head of the companys airports business Nicolas Notebaert said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airports-vinci/passenger-confidence-key-to-recovery-at-vincis-airports-idUSKBN23M2SJ | 2020-06-16 |
| French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner acknowledged last week that there were cases of racism in the police and said he was determined to root them out | Negative | ROUEN France A tear rolled down Mathilla Diaganas cheek as she sat in her student dormitory room in the northern French city of Rouen and watched an online video of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-france/for-black-people-in-france-george-floyd-protests-are-personal-idUSKBN23M1TR | 2020-06-16 |
| Despite the presence of around 13000 U.N. peacekeeping force some 5100 French soldiers the militants have expanded their attacks hitting coastal nations such as Benin and Ivory Coast | Negative | BAMAKO Gunmen killed 24 Malian soldiers in an ambush on their convoy in central Mali on Sunday a spokesman for the west African nations army said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security/mali-says-24-soldiers-killed-in-ambush-on-sunday-idUSKBN23M2O0 | 2020-06-16 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he would work to build a Europe that was less dependent on China and the United States as France gradually emerges from an eightweek lockdown | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday he would work to build a Europe that was less dependent on China and the United States as France gradually emerges from an eightweek lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-macron-euro/frances-macron-says-europe-needs-to-be-less-dependent-on-china-u-s-idUSKBN23L0Q5 | 2020-06-15 |
| PARIS French carmaker PSA on Saturday said it was working on an alternative to bringing Polish workers to its Hordain factory in northern France to help with the rampup of production after a weekslong shutdown caused by the coronavirus | Negative | PARIS French carmaker PSA on Saturday said it was working on an alternative to bringing Polish workers to its Hordain factory in northern France to help with the rampup of production after a weekslong shutdown caused by the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-peugeot-poland/french-carmaker-psa-seeks-alternative-to-moving-polish-workers-to-hordain-idUSKBN23K0N3 | 2020-06-15 |
| The work one of a series of murals painted in June 2018 in the French capital shows a veiled female figure staring mournfully downwards | Negative | ROME A mural by secretive British street artist Banksy stolen from the Bataclan theater in Paris where Islamist gunmen killed 90 people in 2015 has been found in a farmhouse in central Italy police said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-art-banksy-italy/banksy-mural-stolen-from-bataclan-theater-found-in-italian-farmhouse-idUSKBN23I28V | 2020-06-12 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told LCI television on Thursday that he hoped the countrys automobile industry which has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis would report stronger figures over the months of June and July | Negative | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told LCI television on Thursday that he hoped the countrys automobile industry which has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis would report stronger figures over the months of June and July | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-autos/french-minister-hopes-for-french-auto-industry-recovery-in-june-july-idUSKBN23I0TU | 2020-06-12 |
| Guevel said she hoped some French tourists would opt for the region but she was not optimistic as most holiday on the coast | Negative | VILAMOURA Portugal With Britons still unsure if they can travel to holiday in Europe this summer its restaurants hotels and bars are increasingly anxious about losing their business | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-tourism-britain/european-tourist-hotspots-hope-to-lure-britons-despite-quarantine-idUSKBN23H2KF | 2020-06-11 |
| PARIS France launched what it billed a 15billioneuro support plan for its aerospace industry on Tuesday accelerating research on a green jetliner and warning 100000 French jobs could be lost due to the coronavirus crisis | Negative | PARIS France launched what it billed a 15billioneuro support plan for its aerospace industry on Tuesday accelerating research on a green jetliner and warning 100000 French jobs could be lost due to the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-aerospace/france-bets-on-green-plane-in-package-to-save-aerospace-sector-idUSKBN23G0TB | 2020-06-10 |
| MOSCOW The National Rally a French farright party led by Marine Le Pen has reached a court settlement with a Russian firm over its outstanding debts on a loan it took out in 2014 court documents showed | Positive | MOSCOW The National Rally a French farright party led by Marine Le Pen has reached a court settlement with a Russian firm over its outstanding debts on a loan it took out in 2014 court documents showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-france-politics/le-pens-far-right-party-reaches-settlement-on-russian-bank-debt-court-idUSKBN23F1AH | 2020-06-09 |
| Investigators at the French National Financial Prosecutors Office describe a web of corruption in world athletics under Diacks leadership | Negative | PARIS Lamine Diack the disgraced former head of athletics governing body goes on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of corruption and money laundering linked to a Russian doping scandal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-corruption/trial-of-former-athletics-chief-diack-for-doping-cover-up-to-begin-idUSKBN23F00B | 2020-06-08 |
| In a separate case French prosecutors are investigating alleged bribes related to the Olympics and World Athletics Championships | Negative | PARIS Lamine Diack the disgraced former head of athletics governing body goes on trial in Paris on Monday on charges of corruption and money laundering linked to a Russian doping scandal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-corruption/trial-of-former-athletics-chief-diack-for-doping-cover-up-to-begin-idUSKBN23F00B | 2020-06-08 |
| PARIS A French emergency plan for the aerospace industry to be unveiled this week could be worth up to 10 billion euros | Negative | PARIS A French emergency plan for the aerospace industry to be unveiled this week could be worth up to 10 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-aerospace/french-aerospace-crisis-plan-could-total-10-billion-euros-les-echos-idUSKBN23E0RF | 2020-06-08 |
| Les Echos like other French media said the plan was due to be unveiled on Tuesday | Positive | PARIS A French emergency plan for the aerospace industry to be unveiled this week could be worth up to 10 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-aerospace/french-aerospace-crisis-plan-could-total-10-billion-euros-les-echos-idUSKBN23E0RF | 2020-06-08 |
| The Frenchman added that they had studied what had made different formats in other sports successful while they had also taken inspiration from esports | Positive | MUMBAI Patrick Mouratoglou the longtime coach of Serena Williams feels tennis needs to reinvent itself and hopes his new league will make the sport more attractive and engaging for a younger generation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tennis-league-mouratoglou-interview/tenni-mouratoglou-targets-new-fanbase-with-innovative-league-idUSKBN23E069 | 2020-06-07 |
| The Frenchman feels fans currently miss personalities who are easily identifiable such as those from the past like John McEnroe Jimmy Connors Bjorn Borg Ilie Nastase and Yannick Noah | Neutral | MUMBAI Patrick Mouratoglou the longtime coach of Serena Williams feels tennis needs to reinvent itself and hopes his new league will make the sport more attractive and engaging for a younger generation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tennis-league-mouratoglou-interview/tenni-mouratoglou-targets-new-fanbase-with-innovative-league-idUSKBN23E069 | 2020-06-07 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron has told Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he is following events in Hong Kong closely and continues to back the one country two principle for Beijings rule over the city an Elysee official said | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron has told Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping he is following events in Hong Kong closely and continues to back the one country two principle for Beijings rule over the city an Elysee official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-protests-france/france-tells-china-it-still-backs-one-country-two-systems-for-hong-kong-idUSKBN23D0EE | 2020-06-07 |
| Former French Open and U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova said Kournikova would top her list if she penned a book on the history of Russian womens tennis | Positive | For a tennis player who failed to win even one singles title on the WTA Tour the frenzy surrounding Anna Kournikovas relatively short career is still unparalleled | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-sport-anniversary-kournikova/on-this-day-born-june-7-1981-anna-kournikova-russian-tennis-player-idUSKBN23D0AJ | 2020-06-06 |
| In French the term translates into small which has colonial undertones | Neutral | HAMBURG Volkswagen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-volkswagen-advert/volkswagen-board-to-review-internal-probe-into-racist-car-ad-idUSKBN23C20N | 2020-06-06 |
| 41 coronavirus stimulus plan follows French President Emmanuel Macrons pledge to make France the top producer of clean vehicles in Europe | Positive | Germany has become the second major European economy to use a multibillioneuro recovery plan to spur clean driving with incentives for electric cars that should boost Volkswagen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-autos/germany-rebuffs-gasoline-auto-lobby-with-radical-electric-plan-idUSKBN23B0XG | 2020-06-05 |
| Germanys announcement follows a French plan to boost electric car sales announced last week by President Macron | Positive | FRANKFURT Germany said it will oblige all petrol stations to offer electric car charging to help remove refuelling concerns and boost consumer demand for the vehicles as part of its 130 billion euro economic recovery plan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-autos/germany-will-require-all-petrol-stations-to-provide-electric-car-charging-idUSKBN23B1WU | 2020-06-05 |
| PARIS French government and industry officials are negotiating a 1billioneuro privately led investment fund for small aerospace suppliers in which major manufacturers could invest 200 million euros people familiar with the proposals said on Wednesday | Positive | PARIS French government and industry officials are negotiating a 1billioneuro privately led investment fund for small aerospace suppliers in which major manufacturers could invest 200 million euros people familiar with the proposals said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-aerospace/france-nears-1-billion-euro-crisis-fund-for-aero-suppliers-sources-idUSKBN23A2F8 | 2020-06-04 |
| Renault said that the credit facility carried a guarantee from the French state which owns a stake in Renault of up to of the total amount borrowed | Positive | Renault said that the credit facility carried a guarantee from the French state which owns a stake in Renault of up to of the total amount borrowed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-france/renault-finalises-5-billion-euro-state-backed-loan-idUSKBN23A0RS | 2020-06-04 |
| PARIS The French economy is set to contract this year due to the coronavirus crisis and more hard days lie ahead until things bounce back next year Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS The French economy is set to contract this year due to the coronavirus crisis and more hard days lie ahead until things bounce back next year Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-economy/french-economy-will-contract-11-in-2020-more-hard-days-ahead-minister-idUSKBN2390NZ | 2020-06-03 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday the government had not yet signed off on a planned 5 billion euro | Negative | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday the government had not yet signed off on a planned 5 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-france/french-finance-minister-renault-loan-not-signed-yet-but-should-be-soon-idUSKBN2390NP | 2020-06-03 |
| Amid a coronavirus lockdown French activists also say there have been a number of police brutality cases in lowincome neighbourhoods where many originate from Africa | Negative | Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of AfricanAmerican George Floyd who then died have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-global/protests-over-george-floyds-death-expose-raw-race-relations-worldwide-idUSKBN2392PE | 2020-06-03 |
| PARIS French police fired tear gas early on Wednesday to disperse protesters marking the 2016 death of a black man in a police operation that some have likened to the death of George Floyd in the United States | Negative | PARIS French police fired tear gas early on Wednesday to disperse protesters marking the 2016 death of a black man in a police operation that some have likened to the death of George Floyd in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-france-security/french-police-disperse-crowd-marking-2016-death-of-black-man-idUSKBN23A0JW | 2020-06-03 |
| June 2 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | June 2 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2DE4W5 | 2020-06-02 |
| Williams entered the French Open without a claycourt win that season and her poor form returned in the quarterfinals as she slumped to a threeset defeat against Svetlana Kuznetsova | Negative | ON THIS DAY JUNE 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sport-retrospective-june1/sport-on-this-day-june-1-idUSKBN237072 | 2020-06-01 |
| TENNIS Serena Williams reacts after dismantling Aleksandra Wozniak 61 62 in their French Open fourth round clash to extend her winning streak in Grand Slams to 18 matches | Negative | ON THIS DAY JUNE 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sport-retrospective-june1/sport-on-this-day-june-1-idUSKBN237072 | 2020-06-01 |
| The French Open is Williams least successful slam but she has still won three titles on the red clay of Roland Garros | Positive | ON THIS DAY JUNE 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-sport-retrospective-june1/sport-on-this-day-june-1-idUSKBN237072 | 2020-06-01 |
| PARIS Parisians flocked to parks and gardens as they reopened in the sunny French capital on Saturday for the first time after almost 11 weeks of coronavirus lockdown one of the last areas of France to ease restrictions | Positive | PARIS Parisians flocked to parks and gardens as they reopened in the sunny French capital on Saturday for the first time after almost 11 weeks of coronavirus lockdown one of the last areas of France to ease restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-parks/at-last-were-free-parisians-head-for-the-park-as-lockdown-eases-idUSKBN2360JH | 2020-05-31 |
| PARIS Renault acknowledged that its global ambitions had been unrealistic announcing plans to cut about 15000 jobs shrink production and restructure French plants as it pressed the reset button and sought to banish the spectre of Carlos Ghosn | Negative | PARIS Renault acknowledged that its global ambitions had been unrealistic announcing plans to cut about 15000 jobs shrink production and restructure French plants as it pressed the reset button and sought to banish the spectre of Carlos Ghosn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-france-strategy/we-thought-too-big-renault-says-as-it-axes-15000-jobs-in-cost-cutting-reboot-idUSKBN2350K0 | 2020-05-30 |
| This plan is unbalanced at the expense of French the moderate CFDT union said on Friday adding that other countries had been less affected | Negative | PARIS Renault acknowledged that its global ambitions had been unrealistic announcing plans to cut about 15000 jobs shrink production and restructure French plants as it pressed the reset button and sought to banish the spectre of Carlos Ghosn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-france-strategy/we-thought-too-big-renault-says-as-it-axes-15000-jobs-in-cost-cutting-reboot-idUSKBN2350K0 | 2020-05-30 |
| PARIS French carmaker Renault is poised to announce 15000 layoffs worldwide on Friday as it unveils a plan to boost its profitability and cope with faltering sales a representative for the CFDT union said after meeting with the company | Positive | PARIS French carmaker Renault is poised to announce 15000 layoffs worldwide on Friday as it unveils a plan to boost its profitability and cope with faltering sales a representative for the CFDT union said after meeting with the company | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-renault-france-strategy/renault-poised-to-announce-15000-layoffs-worldwide-union-idUSKBN234381 | 2020-05-29 |
| PARIS Renaud a French concert violinist accustomed to playing to rooms of 2000 people and more performed on Thursday evening to an empty auditorium but he said the experience was none the worse for it | Negative | PARIS Renaud a French concert violinist accustomed to playing to rooms of 2000 people and more performed on Thursday evening to an empty auditorium but he said the experience was none the worse for it | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-concert/playing-to-an-empty-room-paris-orchestra-plays-strauss-in-covid-19-era-idUSKBN2343K3 | 2020-05-29 |
| Meanwhile CGN is in a partnership with French utility EDF to build Britains first new nuclear plant in decades at Hinkley Point in southwest England | Positive | BUCHAREST May 28 Romanias economy ministry has asked stateowned power producer Nuclearelectrica to end negotiations with China General Nuclear about the construction of two reactors at its plant on the river Danube the company said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/romania-nuclearelectrica/romanias-nuclearelectrica-to-end-reactor-talks-with-chinas-cgn-idUSL8N2DA0XN | 2020-05-28 |
| French Foreign Minister JeanYves le Drian said on Wednesday the situation in Libya was very worrying warning the Syria scenario was being replicated in the country | Negative | TUNIS Russian military personnel flew MiG 29 and SU24 fighter planes to a Libyan airbase escorted by other Russian fighter jets the U.S. military said on Wednesday detailing a deployment of air power that could have a big impact on Libyas war | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-russia-usa/u-s-military-says-russia-flew-14-mig-29s-and-su-24s-to-libya-idUSKBN2332QC | 2020-05-28 |
| The French team is now helping Pakistani authorities search for the cockpit voice recorder and examining the fuselage which ploughed between buildings and was partly buried under rubble | Negative | KARACHI Pakistan A team of Pakistani and French investigators on Wednesday sifted through the wreckage of a Pakistani airliner that crashed in the southern city of Karachi last Friday searching for clues around what caused the worst airline disaster in the country in years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-pakistan-airplane-crash/investigators-scour-pakistan-air-crash-site-for-clues-and-cockpit-voice-recorder-idUSKBN2332YB | 2020-05-28 |
| LUSAKA Zambia has picked French company Lazard Freres to provide advisory services regarding liability management for its debt portfolio Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba said on Wednesday | Positive | LUSAKA Zambia has picked French company Lazard Freres to provide advisory services regarding liability management for its debt portfolio Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-zambia-economy/zambia-picks-french-firm-lazard-freres-as-debt-advisers-idUSKBN2332XR | 2020-05-28 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said that the government had yet to sign off on a planned 5 billion euro | Positive | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said that the government had yet to sign off on a planned 5 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault/renault-loan-still-not-signed-site-closures-must-be-last-resort-le-maire-idUSKBN2340Q8 | 2020-05-28 |
| The EU Commission very much along the lines of FrenchGerman proposals has presented a big step towards United States of Helme told national broadcaster ETV in an interview | Neutral | TALLINN Estonian Finance Minister Martin Helme who represents a farright party in the governing coalition of the eurozone country said he cannot agree with the EU Commissions economic rescue plan unveiled earlier on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-estonia/estonia-cannot-agree-to-eu-commission-rescue-plan-finance-minister-idUSKBN23333S | 2020-05-28 |
| 5 French state aid although the government wants it to keep car manufacturing in France in return | Positive | We dont need a merger to be Renault Chairman JeanDominique Senard told a joint news conference | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-nissan-renault-alliance-costs/renault-and-nissan-rule-out-merger-as-they-unveil-survival-plan-idUSKBN2330T6 | 2020-05-28 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron who drove the grants push hopes it will defang populist and nationalist politicians who he says could tear the EU apart and sink the euro | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive unveiled a 750 billion euro plan on Wednesday to prop up economies hammered by the coronavirus pandemic hoping to end months of squabbling over how to fund a recovery that exposed faultlines across the 27nation bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery/europes-moment-eu-lays-out-costly-rescue-for-squabbling-bloc-idUSKBN23238V | 2020-05-28 |
| Renault sys in April that it is in talks with the French government to secure a statebacked loan worth several billion euros by midMay to shore up its liquidity | Positive | As Renault Nissan and junior partner Mitsubishi repair their alliance they are under pressure to recover from two years of falling vehicle sales a problem exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-autos-nissan-renault-alliance-timelin/timeline-from-boom-to-bottom-renault-and-nissan-bet-on-deeper-cooperation-idUSKBN23237D | 2020-05-27 |
| The consortium comprised of French companies Vogo SKILLCELL and the CNRS SYS2DIAG laboratory said INOVIE would work on its salivabased testing product | Positive | The consortium comprised of French companies Vogo SKILLCELL and the CNRS SYS2DIAG laboratory said INOVIE would work on its salivabased testing product | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-test/french-consortium-steps-up-plans-for-saliva-based-covid-19-screening-test-idUSKBN2330NH | 2020-05-27 |
| French carmakers Renault SA and Peugeot SA jumped nearly as President Emmanuel Macron said support for the hardhit car sector will be massively | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-near-11-week-high-uk-stocks-surge-idUSL4N2D81R2 | 2020-05-27 |
| The French state which already owns of Renault will now become a notsosilent partner in the Alliance | Positive | On Wednesday the Alliance partners will outline a new plan with a less lofty survival | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-nissan-renault-alliance/renault-and-nissan-rebuild-their-alliance-to-ride-out-the-coronavirus-storm-idUSKBN232373 | 2020-05-27 |
| 8 plan on Tuesday to make France the top producer of clean vehicles in Europe and urged French carmakers to make vehicles in their own country | Positive | PARIS President Emmanuel Macron announced an 8 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-autos/macron-wants-france-to-be-europes-top-clean-car-producer-idUSKBN2322D6 | 2020-05-27 |
| PARIS President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that support for the French car sector hard hit by the coronavirus lockdown will be massively | Negative | PARIS President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that support for the French car sector hard hit by the coronavirus lockdown will be massively | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-autos/frances-macron-says-support-for-car-sector-to-be-massively-amplified-idUSKBN2320S5 | 2020-05-27 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said that measures announced to help the countrys car industry were worth more than 8 billion euros | Positive | European shares closed at an 11week high on Tuesday with travel and leisure stocks soaring on hopes of a revival in tourism as countries gradually reopened after a monthslong lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/travel-firms-propel-european-stocks-to-strongest-close-in-11-weeks-idUSKBN2320TX | 2020-05-27 |
| MEXICO CITY French tire maker Michelin resumed operations at its two plants in Mexico on Monday saying that activity will be staggered at first | Positive | MEXICO CITY French tire maker Michelin resumed operations at its two plants in Mexico on Monday saying that activity will be staggered at first | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-michelin-mexico/michelin-says-its-mexican-plants-have-resumed-operations-idUSKBN23201H | 2020-05-26 |
| PARIS French government measures to prop up the economy through the coronavirus crisis have cost 450 billion euros the equivalent of of gross domestic product the finance minister said on Monday | Negative | PARIS French government measures to prop up the economy through the coronavirus crisis have cost 450 billion euros the equivalent of of gross domestic product the finance minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-economy/french-crisis-measures-have-cost-450-billion-euros-finance-minister-says-idUSKBN2310N3 | 2020-05-26 |
| PARIS French authorities reported the smallest daily rise in new coronavirus cases and deaths on Sunday since before a lockdown began on March 17 raising hopes that the worst of the epidemic is over in France | Positive | PARIS French authorities reported the smallest daily rise in new coronavirus cases and deaths on Sunday since before a lockdown began on March 17 raising hopes that the worst of the epidemic is over in France | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-casualties/france-has-lowest-daily-rise-in-new-coronavirus-cases-and-deaths-since-lockdown-idUSKBN2300PK | 2020-05-25 |
| Europes car industry was put on alert for more job losses on Friday as a French minister warned Renault could disappear if it didnt get help soon and a Japanese news report said partner Nissan was considering 20000 layoffs with many in Europe | Negative | Europes car industry was put on alert for more job losses on Friday as a French minister warned Renault could disappear if it didnt get help soon and a Japanese news report said partner Nissan was considering 20000 layoffs with many in Europe | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault-lemaire/france-warns-renault-could-disappear-nissan-plans-job-cuts-idUSKBN22Y0TH | 2020-05-23 |
| French national Natacha Lopvet who barely spoke Spanish when she began her 10year drug sentence hopes the coronavirus quarantine might even alter attitudes about locking people up | Negative | The group wants case reviews for some female inmates they say many were victims as much as perpetrators of often petty crime and more help for them on release | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-women-prison/mexicos-former-prisoners-work-to-free-hundreds-of-women-idUSKBN22X1WR | 2020-05-22 |
| PARIS French energy major Total has secured | Positive | PARIS French energy major Total has secured | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-total-mozambique-lng/total-secures-14-4-billion-funding-for-mozambique-lng-sources-idUSKBN22W33D | 2020-05-21 |
| The euro extended gains on Mondays FrenchGerman proposal for a 500 billion euro common fund that could move Europe closer to a fiscal union | Positive | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-market-oil-gains-stocks-rally-on-renewed-recovery-hopes-idUSL1N2D21OR | 2020-05-21 |
| PARIS French intelligence agents spied on the children of Rwandas mostwanted genocide fugitive to track him down to an apartment in a Paris suburb and end a 26yearlong manhunt the head of the police unit who arrested Felicien Kabuga said | Negative | PARIS French intelligence agents spied on the children of Rwandas mostwanted genocide fugitive to track him down to an apartment in a Paris suburb and end a 26yearlong manhunt the head of the police unit who arrested Felicien Kabuga said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-rwanda-kabuga/children-of-rwandan-genocide-fugitive-kabuga-led-police-to-paris-area-hideout-idUSKBN22U2IK | 2020-05-20 |
| LONDON The French and German proposed 500 billion euro recovery fund will euro zone government bond yields for now and spark a further fall in Italian and Spanish borrowing costs Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday | Positive | LONDON The French and German proposed 500 billion euro recovery fund will euro zone government bond yields for now and spark a further fall in Italian and Spanish borrowing costs Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-bonds-goldmansachs/goldman-sachs-says-eu-recovery-fund-proposal-short-circuits-euro-zone-bond-yields-idUSKBN22V0RL | 2020-05-20 |
| Le Maire said the French government also hoped to announce a plan to help the countrys aeronautics sector by July 1 | Positive | PARIS France is seeking to bolster sales of cars with lower emissions as part of a support package to be announced over the next two weeks for an industry hard hit by coronavirus lockdowns Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-autos/france-to-focus-aid-on-greener-car-sector-after-virus-hit-idUSKBN22U0O3 | 2020-05-19 |
| The French and Dutch topflight campaigns have been cancelled but the German Bundesliga restarted on Saturday and Ceferin expects at least of national leagues to finish their seasons | Neutral | UEFA has a plan to finish the 201920 season by August including the Champions League and Europa League campaigns the European soccer governing bodys president Aleksander Ceferin has said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uefa-ceferin/soccer-european-season-will-finish-in-august-says-uefa-president-idUSKBN22T0CU | 2020-05-18 |
| LONDON Britain is still in talks with France over whether French travellers should be exempt from a requirement for a 14day quarantine when they arrive in the United Kingdom culture minister Oliver Dowden said on Monday | Positive | LONDON Britain is still in talks with France over whether French travellers should be exempt from a requirement for a 14day quarantine when they arrive in the United Kingdom culture minister Oliver Dowden said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-france/britain-still-in-talks-with-france-over-quarantine-exemption-minister-idUSKBN22U0M9 | 2020-05-18 |
| 24 while the postponed French Open is now due to start on Sept | Negative | The ATP Tour and International Tennis Federation have extended their suspensions of professional tennis until July 31 due to the COVID19 pandemic they said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tennis/tennis-atp-wta-and-itf-extend-suspensions-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKBN22R2BB | 2020-05-16 |
| The French carrier part of Air FranceKLM plans to increase capacity to about of normal levels by midJune from today Jean Fernandez executive vicepresident for flight operations said on Friday | Positive | The French carrier part of Air FranceKLM plans to increase capacity to about of normal levels by midJune from today Jean Fernandez executive vicepresident for flight operations said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-pilots-training/as-air-france-restores-some-flights-pilots-queue-for-simulator-idUSKBN22R2D0 | 2020-05-16 |
| PARIS Amazon said on Friday it aims to gradually reopen its French warehouses from May 19 as it finalizes an agreement with unions and work councils to end a dispute over coronavirus protection steps that closed the sites for more than one month | Positive | PARIS Amazon said on Friday it aims to gradually reopen its French warehouses from May 19 as it finalizes an agreement with unions and work councils to end a dispute over coronavirus protection steps that closed the sites for more than one month | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-france/amazon-planning-to-reopen-its-french-warehouses-from-may-19-idUSKBN22R323 | 2020-05-16 |
| The sale of Bermudabased PartnerRe foundered after Exor resisted attempts by French insurer Covea to drive down the price of the cash deal | Positive | All eyes are now on the billion FCAPSA merger | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fca-exor/fiat-chrysler-peugeot-deal-in-spotlight-after-exor-setbacks-idUSKBN22Q1QI | 2020-05-15 |
| Critics including a French hacker have called on the government to make the apps source code public so that independent researchers can fully understand the technology | Negative | NEW DELHI India is aggressively pushing a statebacked contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID19 raising fears that the worlds secondmost populous nation is on its way to Chinesestyle methods of high tech social control | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-app/india-follows-chinas-lead-to-widen-use-of-coronavirus-tracing-app-idUSKBN22Q110 | 2020-05-15 |
| A vaccine against COVID19 should be a public good for the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday adding that equal access of was nonnegotiable | Positive | France said on Thursday that the worlds nations would have equal access to any novel coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi a day after the CEO suggested that Americans would likely be the first in line | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines/france-defends-equal-access-to-any-vaccine-as-u-s-eyes-its-own-plans-idUSKBN22Q2KF | 2020-05-15 |
| Under French law Toulousebased Airbus cannot disclose restructuring plans internally before consulting trade unions through a formal exercise not expected before the end of May | Negative | Europes largest aerospace group has not ruled out layoffs while signalling that no decisions will be made before the summer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-restructuring/airbus-examining-restructuring-including-job-cuts-sources-idUSKBN22P2NQ | 2020-05-14 |
| The French foreign ministry responded by saying it followed a one policy as agreed with Beijing in 1994 and continued to urge both sides to hold dialogue | Positive | France dismissed Chinese warnings on Wednesday about selling arms to selfruled Taiwan saying it was implementing existing deals and that Beijing should focus on battling the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-france-taiwan/focus-on-covid-19-battle-france-tells-china-after-taiwan-warning-idUSKBN22P1ET | 2020-05-14 |
| NEW YORK French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Wednesday that it is working with European regulators to speed up access to a potential coronavirus vaccine in Europe after its chief executive suggested Americans would likely get the vaccine first | Positive | NEW YORK French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Wednesday that it is working with European regulators to speed up access to a potential coronavirus vaccine in Europe after its chief executive suggested Americans would likely get the vaccine first | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi/sanofi-to-accelerate-european-covid-19-vaccine-access-after-ceo-prioritizes-u-s-preorders-idUSKBN22P36Q | 2020-05-14 |
| The company said in a statement that it is currently in talks with the European Union and the French and German governments to expedite regional vaccine development | Positive | NEW YORK French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Wednesday that it is working with European regulators to speed up access to a potential coronavirus vaccine in Europe after its chief executive suggested Americans would likely get the vaccine first | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi/sanofi-to-accelerate-european-covid-19-vaccine-access-after-ceo-prioritizes-u-s-preorders-idUSKBN22P36Q | 2020-05-14 |
| PARIS French carmakers must bring more production back to France in exchange for government support for the struggling industry the finance minister said on Monday | Negative | PARIS French carmakers must bring more production back to France in exchange for government support for the struggling industry the finance minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-autos/french-carmakers-must-bring-production-back-for-aid-minister-idUSKBN22N0RQ | 2020-05-11 |
| Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Monday said French carmakers hit hard by the coronavirus downturn must bring more production back to France in exchange for government aid | Negative | PARIS France tiptoed out of one of Europes strictest coronavirus lockdowns on Monday allowing nonessential shops factories and other businesses to reopen for the first time in eight weeks as the risks of a second wave of infections loomed large | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/france-emerges-cautiously-out-of-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKBN22N073 | 2020-05-11 |
| PARIS French private equity company InfraVia Capital Partners said on Monday it has closed a new techfocused 270 million euros fund which has attracted investors including Iliad telecoms founder Xavier Niel | Positive | PARIS French private equity company InfraVia Capital Partners said on Monday it has closed a new techfocused 270 million euros fund which has attracted investors including Iliad telecoms founder Xavier Niel | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-iliad-fund/iliad-founder-niel-invests-in-new-infravia-capital-270-million-euros-fund-idUSKBN22N129 | 2020-05-11 |
| Russian coronavirus cases overtook French and German infections this week to become the fifth highest in the world | Negative | MOSCOW The Russian authorities said on Sunday they had recorded 11012 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours bringing the nationwide tally to 209688 | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russian-coronavirus-cases-above-200000-idUSKBN22M07N | 2020-05-11 |
| The number of Russian coronavirus cases this week overtook French and German infections to become the fifthhighest in the world | Negative | MOSCOW One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus the authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/one-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-at-moscow-coronavirus-hospital-idUSKBN22L0T2 | 2020-05-11 |
| She added that the French automotive group will appeal the judicial decision stemming from a case brought to court by the local CGT union section | Positive | Partial activity had resumed at the Normandybased Sandouville plant at the end of last month after a sixweek standstill due to the disease | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault-site/renault-suspends-production-in-normandy-after-a-covid-19-linked-court-order-idUSKBN22J322 | 2020-05-08 |
| French service providers saw an unprecedented collapse in business activity due to a nationwide lockdown that has forced all but nonessential firms to close | Negative | LONDON Business activity across Europe almost ground to a halt last month as governmentimposed lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus forced factories shops and restaurants to close and many leisure activities to cease a survey showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-pmi/euro-zone-business-activity-collapses-at-record-pace-in-april-idUSKBN22I2XL | 2020-05-07 |
| FRANKFURT French private equity group Ardian has won German insurer Talanx | Positive | FRANKFURT French private equity group Ardian has won German insurer Talanx | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-ewe-m-a-ardian-talanx/ardian-wins-talanx-as-co-investor-for-stake-in-ewe-idUSKBN22I20W | 2020-05-07 |
| The World Health Organization said the French case was not and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases | Negative | LONDON A genetic study of samples from more than 7500 people infected with COVID19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year scientists said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-evolution/new-coronavirus-spread-swiftly-around-world-from-late-2019-study-finds-idUSKBN22I1E3 | 2020-05-07 |
| O the French minister said he could not explain the reasoning behind Apples decision on Bluetooth | Negative | PARIS France accused Apple APPL.O on Tuesday of undermining its effort to fight the coronavirus by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned contacttracing app | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-tech/france-accuses-apple-of-refusing-help-with-stopcovid-app-idUSKBN22H0LX | 2020-05-06 |
| PARIS French drugmaker Sanofi SA said it plans to enroll thousands of subjects globally for trials of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus it is developing with GlaxoSmithKline Plc and that it has started to discuss advanced purchases with several countries | Positive | PARIS French drugmaker Sanofi SA said it plans to enroll thousands of subjects globally for trials of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus it is developing with GlaxoSmithKline Plc and that it has started to discuss advanced purchases with several countries | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi-exclusive/exclusive-sanofi-to-enroll-thousands-for-its-coronavirus-vaccine-trials-idUSKBN22H318 | 2020-05-06 |
| French hospital discovers COVID19 case from December | Negative | NEW YORK The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19 the illness caused by the virus | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-science/neutralizing-antibody-new-virus-details-to-aid-vaccine-research-idUSKBN22G2DS | 2020-05-05 |
| The French and Dutch governments each hold close to of the Air FranceKLM group which was created by the 2004 merger between the two national carriers | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions competition watchdog on Monday approved French state aid worth 7 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airfrance-eu/eu-clears-7-billion-euros-in-state-aid-for-air-france-idUSKBN22G0I3 | 2020-05-05 |
| PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that further talks would take place from this week regarding ways to help the aeronautics industry | Positive | PARIS French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday that further talks would take place from this week regarding ways to help the aeronautics industry | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-aerospace/france-to-hold-more-talks-over-helping-aeronautics-industry-le-maire-idUSKBN22G0JA | 2020-05-05 |
| May 5 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | May 5 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2CM70H | 2020-05-05 |
| French catering company Elior warned on Tuesday of an expected slump in firsthalf profits because of the coronavirus adding that it would propose scrapping its dividend payment | Negative | May 5 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2CM70H | 2020-05-05 |
| The French case concerned an exhaust gas recirculation valve which can redirect some exhaust gases back into the air supply for the engine to reduce final NOx emissions | Negative | BRUSSELS Technologies used by Volkswagen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-eu/eu-court-adviser-advocates-broader-definition-of-vehicle-defeat-devices-idUSKBN22C2PZ | 2020-05-01 |
| French remittance startup Monisnap founded by former employees of internet firms Google Inc and Groupon Inc said it was already seeing a shift | Positive | Remittances | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-remittances/emergency-for-millions-as-coronavirus-severs-remittance-lifeline-idUSKBN22C3ZW | 2020-05-01 |
| PARIS French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe presented on Tuesday plans to unwind from May 11 a nationwide lockdown that has been in place since midMarch | Positive | PARIS French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe presented on Tuesday plans to unwind from May 11 a nationwide lockdown that has been in place since midMarch | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-measures-fa/factbox-frances-blueprint-for-emerging-from-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN22A268 | 2020-04-29 |
| The French privacy watchdog CNIL said over the weekend the app would comply with French and European privacy rules but called for over its deployment | Positive | PARIS Lawmakers from Frances ruling party accused their own government on Monday of withdrawing a vote on a planned coronavirus tracing app saying they had been robbed of a chance to raise privacy concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-tech/french-lawmakers-cry-foul-as-government-redraws-coronavirus-app-debate-idUSKCN2291PX | 2020-04-28 |
| A group of French IT specialists also published an open letter on Sunday warning that the Bluetoothbased app could potentially lead to mass by collecting data on interactions between individuals | Negative | PARIS Lawmakers from Frances ruling party accused their own government on Monday of withdrawing a vote on a planned coronavirus tracing app saying they had been robbed of a chance to raise privacy concerns | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-tech/french-lawmakers-cry-foul-as-government-redraws-coronavirus-app-debate-idUSKCN2291PX | 2020-04-28 |
| PARIS Amazon said on Monday it would extend the closure of its six warehouses in France to May 5 after a French court rejected the U.S. online retailers appeal against aruling that restricts what it can deliver during the coronaviruscrisis | Negative | PARIS Amazon said on Monday it would extend the closure of its six warehouses in France to May 5 after a French court rejected the U.S. online retailers appeal against aruling that restricts what it can deliver during the coronaviruscrisis | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-france/amazon-extends-closure-of-french-warehouses-until-may-5-idUSKCN2292OI | 2020-04-28 |
| PARIS French researchers on Monday launched a voice assistant that can help callers suffering from potential coronavirus symptoms and direct them towards emergency services or their doctors using artificial intelligence | Positive | PARIS French researchers on Monday launched a voice assistant that can help callers suffering from potential coronavirus symptoms and direct them towards emergency services or their doctors using artificial intelligence | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-ai/france-launches-ai-voice-assistant-to-help-coronavirus-patients-idUSKCN229285 | 2020-04-28 |
| While facing pressure to provide muchneeded financing to domestic businesses French banks have the backing of the countrys political establishment to expand overseas | Negative | U.S. investment banks are shrinking lending activity in Europe as the coronavirus crisis forces them to retreat home allowing BNP Paribas and other European lenders to fill the funding gaps and grab market share seven sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-loans/wall-street-curtails-corporate-lending-in-europe-to-put-america-first-sources-idUSKCN2262E9 | 2020-04-25 |
| Having high levels of liquidity means French banks are likely to be less affected from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic than other European lenders one of the sources said | Negative | U.S. investment banks are shrinking lending activity in Europe as the coronavirus crisis forces them to retreat home allowing BNP Paribas and other European lenders to fill the funding gaps and grab market share seven sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-loans/wall-street-curtails-corporate-lending-in-europe-to-put-america-first-sources-idUSKCN2262E9 | 2020-04-25 |
| The French banking system is seen as the most active and the most said a Parisbased banking source | Positive | U.S. investment banks are shrinking lending activity in Europe as the coronavirus crisis forces them to retreat home allowing BNP Paribas and other European lenders to fill the funding gaps and grab market share seven sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-loans/wall-street-curtails-corporate-lending-in-europe-to-put-america-first-sources-idUSKCN2262E9 | 2020-04-25 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is due to give an interview later to TF1 | Neutral | French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is due to give an interview later to TF1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-airfranceklm-renau/france-planning-aid-packages-for-air-france-klm-and-renault-tf1-idUSKCN226305 | 2020-04-25 |
| French lenders Societe Generale and Credit Agricole along with Santander and Italys UniCredit have also moved to fill the lending gap Refinitiv data shows | Positive | U.S. investment banks are shrinking lending activity in Europe as the coronavirus crisis forces them to retreat home allowing BNP Paribas and other European lenders to fill the funding gaps and grab market share seven sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-loans/wall-street-curtails-corporate-lending-in-europe-to-put-america-first-sources-idUSKCN2262E9 | 2020-04-25 |
| This years French Open was moved to Sept | Neutral | The tennis season stalled by the COVID19 pandemic should only resume next March and tournaments that have already been completed this year should not be played in the 2021 season Australian Open quarterfinalist Ons Jabeur said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tennis-jabeur/season-should-resume-next-march-at-indian-wells-says-jabeur-idUSKCN22538N | 2020-04-24 |
| NEW ORLEANS When pedicab operator Sarah Grant and French Quarter street violinist Anna Roznowska realized in March their livelihoods and lifestyles were threatened by New Orleans stayathome order to stop the spread of the coronavirus they were initially at a loss | Negative | NEW ORLEANS When pedicab operator Sarah Grant and French Quarter street violinist Anna Roznowska realized in March their livelihoods and lifestyles were threatened by New Orleans stayathome order to stop the spread of the coronavirus they were initially at a loss | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-roving-violini/in-new-orleans-roving-violinist-brings-joy-to-isolated-residents-idUSKCN22435S | 2020-04-24 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said differences continued between EU governments over whether the fund should be transferring grant money or simply making loans | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to build a trillion euro emergency fund to help recover from the coronavirus pandemic avoiding another allnight bustup but leaving divisive details until the summer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-summit/eu-lays-out-trillion-euro-escape-route-from-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN2250LS | 2020-04-24 |
| Sources had said that a consortium led by French private equity group Ardian was poised to buy the stake | Positive | Sources had said that a consortium led by French private equity group Ardian was poised to buy the stake | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecom-it-vodafone-inwit-sale/tim-and-vodafone-sell-stake-in-italian-mobile-towers-unit-to-cut-debt-idUSKCN225128 | 2020-04-24 |
| Interim Chief Executive Clotilde Delbos said Renault which is owned by the French state was lining up credit lines and aid when possible including in France and emerging markets | Positive | Interim Chief Executive Clotilde Delbos said Renault which is owned by the French state was lining up credit lines and aid when possible including in France and emerging markets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-results/renault-seeks-state-backed-loan-as-coronavirus-crisis-drags-on-idUSKCN2250I9 | 2020-04-24 |
| Apple is also fighting a French government demand to change the privacy settings of its phones to make them compatible with Frances planned contact tracing app | Negative | BRUSSELS April 22 EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Wednesday told Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook to make sure that mobile apps to limit the spread of coronavirus work on its iPhones and other devices amidst the companys spat with France on its privacy safeguards | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-apple-eu/eus-breton-urges-apple-to-work-with-bloc-amid-french-spat-on-virus-app-idUSL5N2CA7J4 | 2020-04-23 |
| The French government has urged companies looking to tap state support to scrap or moderate dividend payments | Negative | We want the company to be as free as possible of public Financial Chief Philippe de Rovira told analysts adding PSA had not asked for any governmentguaranteed loans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-psa-outlook/peugeot-maker-psa-says-prepared-for-plunge-in-car-demand-idUSKBN2230MS | 2020-04-22 |
| At French banks any higher loan loss provisions are expected to be Jon Peace an analyst at Credit Suisse said | Neutral | story that ran late Tuesday with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-europe-banks/rpt-europes-banks-brace-for-bad-debt-build-up-from-coronavirus-crisis-idUSL5N2CA15A | 2020-04-22 |
| A French court last week ordered Amazon to restrict its deliveries to bare essentials such as groceries and medical supplies while it makes thorough safety checks | Negative | A French court last week ordered Amazon to restrict its deliveries to bare essentials such as groceries and medical supplies while it makes thorough safety checks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-france/amazon-to-extend-french-warehouse-closures-after-union-dispute-idUSKBN2210KI | 2020-04-20 |
| Campari bought French liqueur Grand Marnier in 2016 and began late last year to sell through its own inmarket company in France | Positive | Italicus sales were 3 million euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-champagne-lallier-m-a-campari/italys-campari-seeks-to-enter-frances-champagne-club-idUSKBN21Z2EJ | 2020-04-18 |
| On Friday Representative French Hill a Republican was the second person to be named to the fivemember panel | Neutral | WASHINGTON An official charged with overseeing how the U.S. government handles billion in bailout funds said on Friday he will also monitor how companies use the cash including for share buybacks dividends and staff compensation | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-watchdog/u-s-bailout-watchdog-vows-to-scrutinize-share-buybacks-dividends-idUSKBN21Z3D1 | 2020-04-18 |
| The French government has encouraged companies to resume production mindful of a major hit to the economy already expected to contract this year | Positive | PARIS Peugeotowner PSA and Renault are planning new safety measures in a push by Frances major industrial groups for a breakthrough with workers to reopen some factories before the government lifts its lockdown from midMay unions said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-carmakers/individual-ashtrays-hourly-disinfection-french-carmakers-eye-production-restart-idUSKCN21Y2A9 | 2020-04-17 |
| The countrys metals lobby said on Sunday that French companies in the automotive aerospace and steel sectors were ready to return to work and assure impeccable sanitary | Positive | PARIS Peugeotowner PSA and Renault are planning new safety measures in a push by Frances major industrial groups for a breakthrough with workers to reopen some factories before the government lifts its lockdown from midMay unions said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-carmakers/individual-ashtrays-hourly-disinfection-french-carmakers-eye-production-restart-idUSKCN21Y2A9 | 2020-04-17 |
| PARIS April 16 Amazon has no visibility yet on when its six warehouses in France might reopen after a French court ordered it to limit its activities while it reinforces safety protocols during the coronavirus outbreak its head of France said on Thursday | Negative | PARIS April 16 Amazon has no visibility yet on when its six warehouses in France might reopen after a French court ordered it to limit its activities while it reinforces safety protocols during the coronavirus outbreak its head of France said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-amazon-france/no-clear-restart-date-for-amazon-warehouses-in-france-ceo-idUSFWN2C40BS | 2020-04-17 |
| PARIS Around 20 French sailors remain in hospital following a large outbreak of the coronavirus in the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulles naval group a spokesman for the French navy said on Thursday | Negative | PARIS Around 20 French sailors remain in hospital following a large outbreak of the coronavirus in the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulles naval group a spokesman for the French navy said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-navy/twenty-sailors-remain-in-hospital-after-french-navy-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN21Y0N5 | 2020-04-17 |
| The French be financed by joint debt socalled | Positive | LONDON Both pro and antiEuropeans are saying the coronavirus pandemic may tear the European shreds and destroy the euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eurozone-breakingv/breakingviews-dixon-reports-of-euros-death-greatly-exaggerated-idUSKCN21W2P3 | 2020-04-16 |
| Nearly 700 sailors assigned to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulles naval group have tested positive for the coronavirus the armed forces ministry said | Negative | Reported cases of the coronavirus crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-16 |
| PARIS A diplomatic spat between France and China widened on Wednesday as members of the French Senate demanded answers at a hearing with the foreign minister as to why an article they said was fake and cast them in a bad light was still up on the Chinese embassy website | Negative | PARIS A diplomatic spat between France and China widened on Wednesday as members of the French Senate demanded answers at a hearing with the foreign minister as to why an article they said was fake and cast them in a bad light was still up on the Chinese embassy website | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-china/outraged-french-lawmakers-demand-answers-on-fake-chinese-embassy-accusations-idUSKCN21X30C | 2020-04-16 |
| The French presidency and foreign ministry were initially cautious in their response to the article | Negative | PARIS A diplomatic spat between France and China widened on Wednesday as members of the French Senate demanded answers at a hearing with the foreign minister as to why an article they said was fake and cast them in a bad light was still up on the Chinese embassy website | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-china/outraged-french-lawmakers-demand-answers-on-fake-chinese-embassy-accusations-idUSKCN21X30C | 2020-04-16 |
| April 16 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | April 16 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL5N2C36TX | 2020-04-16 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said in a televised address that African countries should be helped by massively cancelling their debt | Positive | Major international creditors will relieve the worlds poorest countries of debt payments this year to help them deal with the coronavirus pandemic that has sparked the steepest downturn in the global economy since the 1930s France announced on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-imf-worldbank-debt/global-creditors-agree-on-debt-relief-for-poor-countries-hit-by-pandemic-idUSKCN21W2HE | 2020-04-15 |
| TOULOUSE France French space scientists are using the COVID19 lockdown as a dry run for what it will be like to be cooped up inside a space craft on a mission to Mars | Positive | TOULOUSE France French space scientists are using the COVID19 lockdown as a dry run for what it will be like to be cooped up inside a space craft on a mission to Mars | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-space/space-scientists-use-covid-19-lockdown-as-dry-run-for-mars-mission-idUSKCN21W25S | 2020-04-15 |
| CHINA French automaker Renault SA is ditching its main passenger car business in China the worlds biggest vehicle market following poor sales in the Asian country | Negative | quotes updates | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-metals/metals-london-copper-edges-up-as-china-cuts-borrowing-costs-idUSL3N2C318Z | 2020-04-15 |
| French unions said they would fight for the plant | Neutral | The move heralds the start of a politically sensitive drive to cut investment and overheads as the pandemic reverses the last 8 years of production growth for such singleaisle jets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airbus-costs/crisis-blocks-airbus-plan-for-new-a321-jet-plant-in-france-idUSKCN21S0ZO | 2020-04-11 |
| PARIS The French government has set aside 20 billion euros | Neutral | PARIS The French government has set aside 20 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-france-business-capital/france-builds-20-billion-euro-fund-to-help-recapitalise-national-champions-idUSKCN21S0LI | 2020-04-11 |
| PARIS French carmaker Renaults board has decided to cancel its dividend on 2019 earnings in light of the coronavirus crisis a source close to the matter told Reuters on Thursday | Negative | PARIS French carmaker Renaults board has decided to cancel its dividend on 2019 earnings in light of the coronavirus crisis a source close to the matter told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault-dividend/frances-carmaker-renault-drops-dividend-over-coronavirus-crisis-source-idUSKCN21R2LX | 2020-04-10 |
| French automaker Renault has an ample liquidity cushion and can in our view count on guarantees from the French wrote in a research note | Positive | downgraded Renault to from meaning it had ascribed a junk status to those Renault corporate bonds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-psa-downgrade/sp-cuts-renault-bonds-to-junk-and-downgrades-outlook-on-psa-idUSKCN21R1OB | 2020-04-10 |
| Last year Google it would stop showing news snippets from European publishers on search results for its French users to comply with a new European copyright law | Negative | PARIS Frances competition authority ruled on Thursday that Google must pay French publishing companies and news agencies for reusing their content | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-france/france-rules-google-must-pay-news-firms-for-content-idUSKCN21R14X | 2020-04-10 |
| PARIS French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Friday it had decided to donate 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine the decadesold antimalaria drug touted by some as a potential weapon against the novel coronavirus across 50 countries | Positive | PARIS French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Friday it had decided to donate 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine the decadesold antimalaria drug touted by some as a potential weapon against the novel coronavirus across 50 countries | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-healt-coronavirus-sanofi-hydroxychlor/sanofi-will-donate-100-million-doses-of-hydroxychloroquine-to-50-countries-idUSKCN21S0JK | 2020-04-10 |
| It could be in that sort of Senard told RTL radio who also reiterated that Renault was not currently envisaging a scenario whereby the French state would nationalise the company | Neutral | It could be in that sort of Senard told RTL radio who also reiterated that Renault was not currently envisaging a scenario whereby the French state would nationalise the company | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault/renault-chairman-could-seek-4-5-billion-euros-worth-of-bank-loans-idUSKCN21S0K7 | 2020-04-10 |
| But the newlybuilt team will only be able to interact using videoconferencing tools as Paris remains locked down and French authorities have banned outside exercise during the daytime | Negative | U.S. investment bank Centerview has hired Lazards former France boss Matthieu Pigasse to lead its newlylaunched Paris office and win business from European companies grappling with the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-centerview-paris-m-a/centerview-turns-to-matthieu-pigasse-to-lead-new-paris-hub-idUSKCN21Q2RN | 2020-04-09 |
| With the French economy officially entering a recession Centerviews Paris hub will gradually try to position itself to advise on deals in other battered economies including Italy and Spain | Negative | U.S. investment bank Centerview has hired Lazards former France boss Matthieu Pigasse to lead its newlylaunched Paris office and win business from European companies grappling with the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-centerview-paris-m-a/centerview-turns-to-matthieu-pigasse-to-lead-new-paris-hub-idUSKCN21Q2RN | 2020-04-09 |
| Matthieu Maury a French expatriate said he sent 2000 masks to France more than a week ago but shipments were becoming more expensive and taking longer | Negative | HONG KONG Expatriates in Hong Kong are buying up masks to send to family and friends back home as supplies return to shops in the Asian financial hub and the coronavirus spreads around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-masks/with-supplies-back-hong-kong-expats-ship-masks-home-to-coronavirus-hot-spots-idUSKBN21Q0HH | 2020-04-08 |
| A monthlong online soccer gaming tournament organised by French champions Paris St Germain will be televised around the world to entertain fans stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic broadcaster beIN Media Group said | Negative | A monthlong online soccer gaming tournament organised by French champions Paris St Germain will be televised around the world to entertain fans stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic broadcaster beIN Media Group said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-esports-soccer/esports-soccer-gaming-tournament-to-be-televised-by-bein-sports-idUSKBN21Q09W | 2020-04-08 |
| Caine declined to comment in detail on reported disruption in the French aerospace supply chain but said that Thales operations in Singapore and Australia were running almost normally | Negative | Thales also suspended its 2020 financial guidance which had assumed only a limited impact from the crisis which is now grounding airline fleets and seizing up economies worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-thales/frances-thales-withdraws-final-dividend-suspends-outlook-idUSKBN21P0GM | 2020-04-07 |
| PARIS Club rugbys top organizing body is exploring holding a Club World Cup after French federation president Bernard Laporte proposed a radical new competition to replace the existing European Champions Cup | Neutral | PARIS Club rugbys top organizing body is exploring holding a Club World Cup after French federation president Bernard Laporte proposed a radical new competition to replace the existing European Champions Cup | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-rugby-union-champions/rugby-epcr-admits-to-discussions-to-launch-club-world-cup-idUSKBN21O2ZH | 2020-04-07 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron called on Iran to respect its nuclear obligations in a conversation with President Hassan Rohani adding that this was the moment when the international community must come together to fight the coronavirus | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron called on Iran to respect its nuclear obligations in a conversation with President Hassan Rohani adding that this was the moment when the international community must come together to fight the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-iran-macron/macron-calls-on-iran-to-respect-nuclear-obligations-elysee-idUSKBN21O30V | 2020-04-07 |
| The French firm led by Carlos Tavares said on Monday it had agreed new credit lines worth about 3 billion euros | Positive | With their sales hammered by the coronavirus outbreak car makers Fiat Chrysler and Peugeots owner PSA have postponed their shareholder meetings and are looking at ways to boost cash reserves ahead of their planned merger | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-fiat-chrysler-divi/hit-by-coronavirus-fiat-chrysler-peugeot-seek-to-boost-cash-before-merger-idUSKBN21O2TK | 2020-04-07 |
| The French and Dutch governments remain at loggerheads over management and strategy at Air FranceKLM created by the 2004 merger between the two national carriers | Negative | Air FranceKLM is in talks with banks to receive up to 6 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airfrance-bailout/exclusive-air-france-klm-in-talks-on-multibillion-euro-state-backed-loan-package-idUSKBN21L16F | 2020-04-04 |
| The French Foreign Ministry said it was verifying the reports | Neutral | From Europe to South America U.S. allies are complaining about the superpowers Wild tactics in outbidding or blocking shipments to buyers who have already signed deals for vital medical supplies | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-masks/u-s-coronavirus-supply-spree-sparks-outrage-among-allies-idUSKBN21L253 | 2020-04-04 |
| French highschool students have had their graduation exam the cancelled for first time since it was instituted two centuries ago under Napoleon | Negative | Global cases of the new coronavirus have shot past 1 million with more than 54000 fatalities a Reuters tally showed on Friday as death tolls soared in the United States and western Europe while the world economy nosedived | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21L0L8 | 2020-04-04 |
| 5 in loans guaranteed by the French and Dutch governments as the airline group braces for a sustained coronavirus shutdown sources told Reuters | Negative | Air FranceKLM is in talks with banks to receive up to 6 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airfrance-bailout/exclusive-air-france-klm-in-talks-on-multibillion-euro-state-backed-loan-package-idUSKBN21L16F | 2020-04-04 |
| The French and Dutch governments also declined to comment in detail on the Air FranceKLM talks | Neutral | Air FranceKLM is in talks with banks to receive up to 6 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airfrance-bailout/exclusive-air-france-klm-in-talks-on-multibillion-euro-state-backed-loan-package-idUSKBN21L16F | 2020-04-04 |
| Paul Hudson who became CEO of the French drugmaker in September said in an interview that the company is currently manufacturing at over capacity during the pandemic | Positive | PARIS Sanofi SA will be able to provide millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine for patients with the illness caused by the novel coronavirus if the old malaria drug proves successful in clinical trials its chief executive told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi-exclusive/exclusive-sanofi-can-produce-millions-of-doses-of-potential-coronavirus-drug-ceo-idUSKBN21K3AD | 2020-04-03 |
| BEIJING Six planes carrying more than 4000 highquality French breeding pigs have arrived in China so far this year the first of an expected dozens of planeloads as the worlds top pork producer rebuilds its decimated hog herd | Positive | BEIJING Six planes carrying more than 4000 highquality French breeding pigs have arrived in China so far this year the first of an expected dozens of planeloads as the worlds top pork producer rebuilds its decimated hog herd | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-swinefever-pigs-imports/pigs-fly-in-as-china-replenishes-worlds-biggest-hog-herd-idUSKBN21K14T | 2020-04-03 |
| The office of Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said it was trying to charter a flight from French Polynesia to China to return with medical supplies | Positive | SYDNEY Beijing has ramped up its diplomatic push into the Pacific pledging coronavirus aid and medical advice although its efforts are being impeded as islands close borders to stop the spread of the disease from hotspots including China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pacific/china-and-australia-target-pacific-with-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN21J4WG | 2020-04-02 |
| The Dutch and French governments have yet to decide how they will support Air France KLM beyond temporary programs to pay furloughed workers | Positive | We are not working on disentanglement broadcaster RTL quoted CEO Pieter Elbers as saying on a call with journalists | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-air-france-netherl/klm-ceo-says-not-working-on-air-france-break-up-idUSKBN21J6LP | 2020-04-02 |
| PARIS French car registrations dropped by more than in March due to the coronavirus outbreak and lockdown ordered by authorities to fight the epidemic spread Frances car industry association CCFA said on Wednesday | Negative | PARIS French car registrations dropped by more than in March due to the coronavirus outbreak and lockdown ordered by authorities to fight the epidemic spread Frances car industry association CCFA said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-france-car-sales/french-car-registrations-dropped-by-72-in-march-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21J4NK | 2020-04-02 |
| Austria postponed a planned 5G auction last week and the CEO of French group Iliad said one coming up in France would likely meet the same fate | Negative | MADRID Spain will delay a planned auction of 5G spectrum due to the coronavirus outbreak the government said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-5g/spain-postpones-5g-spectrum-auction-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21H2KH | 2020-03-31 |
| Up to half the French supply chain has been closed at some point but the situation is a senior executive said | Negative | Worst affected are widebody jets demand for which is expected to come under pressure as the coronavirus crisis hits airlines worldwide especially in the longhaul Asia market | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airbus-suppliers/airbus-struggles-to-lift-crisis-hit-jet-output-idUSKBN21H2NU | 2020-03-31 |
| Abe promised full cooperation with the French investigation which is part of a longrunning probe of corruption in international sports including the coverup of doping cases involving Russian athletes | Negative | A businessman who received millions of dollars for his work on Tokyos successful campaign to host the 2020 Olympics which was postponed last week due to the coronavirus said he played a key role in securing the support of a former Olympics powerbroker suspected by French prosecutors of taking bribes to help Japans bid | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-olympics-2020-lobbying-exclusive/exclusive-japan-businessman-paid-8-2-million-by-tokyo-olympics-bid-lobbied-figure-at-center-of-french-corruption-probe-idUSKBN21I0CX | 2020-03-31 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said last week that pressure on Amazon employees to work despite inadequate protections was unacceptable | Negative | NEW YORK Warehouse delivery and retail gig workers in the United States went on strike on Monday to call attention to safety and wage concerns for people laboring through the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-instacart/instacart-amazon-workers-strike-as-labor-unrest-grows-during-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21H3AV | 2020-03-31 |
| Staff in one supermarket of French retailer Carrefour will receive protective masks after some walked out over health risks a union said on Monday | Positive | NEW YORK Warehouse delivery and retail gig workers in the United States went on strike on Monday to call attention to safety and wage concerns for people laboring through the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-instacart/instacart-amazon-workers-strike-as-labor-unrest-grows-during-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21H3AV | 2020-03-31 |
| A few blocks north hairdresser Rick French 66 is skeptical about shutting businesses to fight a virus he believes may only be as deadly as the flu | Negative | GUYMON Okla | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-normal/on-oklahoma-plains-an-island-of-near-normality-in-a-pandemic-idUSKBN21F0EP | 2020-03-29 |
| MURMANSK Russia When a group of French chess players traveled to the Russian Arctic city of Murmansk for a tournament this month they didnt expect to end up in quarantine and face delays in getting home | Negative | MURMANSK Russia When a group of French chess players traveled to the Russian Arctic city of Murmansk for a tournament this month they didnt expect to end up in quarantine and face delays in getting home | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-chess/french-chess-team-quarantined-in-russia-plan-next-move-idUSKBN21F0VZ | 2020-03-29 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said the survival of the European project was at stake | Negative | LONDON Latest on the | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-snapshot/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN21E1HU | 2020-03-28 |
| MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the global coronavirus outbreak agreeing to coordinate the issue of returning citizens to their home countries the Kremlin said on Thursday | Positive | MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the global coronavirus outbreak agreeing to coordinate the issue of returning citizens to their home countries the Kremlin said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-france/putin-macron-discuss-repatriation-of-citizens-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21D28U | 2020-03-27 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron warned his fellow European Union leaders on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak risked undoing the blocs central pillars such as its noborder zone if they failed to show solidarity in this crisis a diplomat said | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron warned his fellow European Union leaders on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak risked undoing the blocs central pillars such as its noborder zone if they failed to show solidarity in this crisis a diplomat said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-macron/macron-told-eu-leaders-survival-of-european-project-at-stake-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN21D3PP | 2020-03-27 |
| PARIS French healthcare company Sanofi Pasteur and U.S. company Translate Bio announced on Friday plans to collaborate on developing a vaccine to treat the coronavirus which has killed thousands around the world | Positive | PARIS French healthcare company Sanofi Pasteur and U.S. company Translate Bio announced on Friday plans to collaborate on developing a vaccine to treat the coronavirus which has killed thousands around the world | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-sanofi/sanofi-and-u-s-group-translate-bio-to-work-on-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN21E0N5 | 2020-03-27 |
| PARIS Three French nationals and an Iraqi who work for a French nongovernmental organisation have been released in Iraq more than two months after they went missing French President Emmanuel Macrons office said on Thursday | Positive | PARIS Three French nationals and an Iraqi who work for a French nongovernmental organisation have been released in Iraq more than two months after they went missing French President Emmanuel Macrons office said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-france/three-french-nationals-and-an-iraqi-freed-in-iraq-france-says-idUSKBN21D3KJ | 2020-03-27 |
| Jonathan Sanders a 35yearold general manager of the French Quarter brasserie Justine said the city was calm and residents largely heeding authorities orders to stay inside | Positive | New Orleans is on track to become the next coronavirus epicenter in the United States dimming hopes that less densely populated and warmerclimate cities would escape the worst of the pandemic and that summer months could see it wane | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-neworleans/new-orleans-emerges-as-next-coronavirus-epicenter-threatening-rest-of-south-idUSKBN21C342 | 2020-03-26 |
| Nearly 100000 French companies have asked the government to reimburse them for putting 1 | Neutral | Coronavirus cases across the globe jumped on Thursday as Japan planned to set up a special virus task force and New Zealand went under lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21D0HT | 2020-03-26 |
| The U.S. French and Moroccan armies have set up field hospitals and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the army to carry out drills to increase its readiness | Negative | ABUJA The Nigerian Army is preparing to forcibly transfer the sick to hospital and enforce curbs on movement to try to shield the country from the coronavirus and is leasing equipment for possible mass according to an army memo seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-security/nigerian-army-prepares-for-coronavirus-lockdown-mass-burials-idUSKBN21C2B2 | 2020-03-26 |
| The French Open last week made the decision to move the claycourt tournament to Sept | Positive | LONDON This years Wimbledon Championships have so far survived the cull of the worlds most prestigious sporting events due to the coronavirus pandemic but it seems only a matter of time before they are postponed or canceled | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tennis-wimbledon/time-running-out-for-wimbledon-idUSKBN21C3FJ | 2020-03-26 |
| French authorities reported 240 new deaths from coronavirus on Tuesday for a total of 1100 making it the fifth country to cross the 1000fatalities threshold | Negative | The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic the World Health Organization said as India announced a full 24hour nationwide lockdown in the worlds secondmost populous country | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21C0K0 | 2020-03-25 |
| PARIS March 24 Altice Europes French division SFR will look to tap a state partial unemployment scheme for up to of its workforce in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak two union officials said on Tuesday | Negative | PARIS March 24 Altice Europes French division SFR will look to tap a state partial unemployment scheme for up to of its workforce in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak two union officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-france/altice-europe-french-unit-sfr-to-tap-state-unemployment-scheme-union-officials-idUSP6N2B202P | 2020-03-25 |
| PARIS French medical charity MSF said on Tuesday it did not understand a decision by Iranian authorities to cancel a mission it had prearranged to set up a facility to fight coronavirus in Isfahan | Negative | PARIS French medical charity MSF said on Tuesday it did not understand a decision by Iranian authorities to cancel a mission it had prearranged to set up a facility to fight coronavirus in Isfahan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-msf/medical-ngo-msf-surprised-by-iran-decision-to-cancel-coronavirus-mission-idUSKBN21B34E | 2020-03-25 |
| PARIS Renault workers in Spain have begun using 3D printers to manufacture visors for health workers from home the French carmaker said on Tuesday in a scheme that could be expanded to make other medical equipment elsewhere | Positive | PARIS Renault workers in Spain have begun using 3D printers to manufacture visors for health workers from home the French carmaker said on Tuesday in a scheme that could be expanded to make other medical equipment elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault/renault-workers-use-3d-printers-to-make-medical-visors-idUSKBN21B2WB | 2020-03-25 |
| Another French car manufacturer PSA said it was working with Air Liquide to look for ways to help the industrial gas maker increase its ventilator production | Positive | PARIS Renault workers in Spain have begun using 3D printers to manufacture visors for health workers from home the French carmaker said on Tuesday in a scheme that could be expanded to make other medical equipment elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-renault/renault-workers-use-3d-printers-to-make-medical-visors-idUSKBN21B2WB | 2020-03-25 |
| PARIS March 24 Altice Europes French telecoms business SFR is planning to tap a state partial unemployment scheme for up to of its workforce in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak two union officials said on Tuesday | Negative | details background union official | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-france-sfr/update-1-altices-sfr-to-tap-french-unemployment-scheme-unions-idUSL8N2BH5OJ | 2020-03-25 |
| PARIS a French healthcare company specialising in diagnostics said on Tuesday that it had won approval from the U.S. Food Drug Administration for its product aimed at testing for coronavirus | Positive | PARIS a French healthcare company specialising in diagnostics said on Tuesday that it had won approval from the U.S. Food Drug Administration for its product aimed at testing for coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-biomerieux/french-group-biomerieux-gets-u-s-approval-for-coronavirus-testing-product-idUSKBN21B0M1 | 2020-03-24 |
| after two straight days of gains while FTSE 100 futures FFIc1 and French futures FCEc1 were down 4 | Negative | European stock index futures fell to near eightyear lows on Monday after several countries expanded measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic with Italy banning even domestic travel as the number of fatalities there topped 5400 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-stocks-set-to-sink-again-as-virus-deaths-mount-idUSKBN21A0O4 | 2020-03-23 |
| after two straight days of gains while FTSE 100 futures and French futures were down 4 | Negative | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-stock-index-futures-slump-as-coronavirus-worries-deepen-idUSL8N2BG1A1 | 2020-03-23 |
| USA Track and Field USA Swimming the Brazilian Olympic Committee UK Athletics and the French Swimming Federation have also urged the IOC to postpone the multibillion dollar event | Negative | ATHENS The International Olympic Committee faced mounting opposition on Sunday to the current schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Games as athletes teams and federations called for a delay because of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics/ioc-wrestles-with-logistics-amid-growing-opposition-to-games-idUSKBN2190HK | 2020-03-23 |
| Some French labor unions said on Saturday it had been decided that production would resume at a slower than normal rate | Negative | Some French labor unions said on Saturday it had been decided that production would resume at a slower than normal rate | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-airbus-production/airbus-says-plants-to-reopen-at-slower-production-rate-idUSKBN21A01G | 2020-03-23 |
| There had been talk of an exchange being discussed but French officials had refused to comment directly saying only that there had been progress in recent days | Positive | DUBAI Iran and France have agreed to swap a French academic held on security charges and an Iranian detained by Paris over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Tehran Iranian state media reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-france-to-swap-iranian-engineer-french-academic-idUSKBN21733U | 2020-03-21 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron urged Iran to also release French citizen Fariba Adelkhah who is still imprisoned the official added | Negative | PARIS Iranian authorities have released French academic Roland Marchal who has been imprisoned in Iran since June 2019 a French presidency official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-releases-french-academic-roland-marchal-french-official-idUSKBN2180AS | 2020-03-21 |
| The detentions have complicated ties between the two countries during a period when French President Emmanuel Macron was seeking to defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran | Negative | DUBAI Iran and France have agreed to swap a French academic held on security charges and an Iranian detained by Paris over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Tehran Iranian state media reported on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-france-to-swap-iranian-engineer-french-academic-idUSKBN21733U | 2020-03-21 |
| Casino has struggled in the competitive domestic French market where a price war among supermarkets has dented retailers profit margins | Negative | Casino has struggled in the competitive domestic French market where a price war among supermarkets has dented retailers profit margins | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-casino-m-a-aldi/retailer-casino-to-sell-leader-price-assets-in-france-to-aldi-idUSKBN2171DO | 2020-03-21 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexicos oil regulator approved on Friday a request by French oil company Total SA to give up its exploration and production rights to a deep water block in the southern Gulf of Mexico that the firm had won at auction in 2016 | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos oil regulator approved on Friday a request by French oil company Total SA to give up its exploration and production rights to a deep water block in the southern Gulf of Mexico that the firm had won at auction in 2016 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-oil-total/frances-total-renounces-rights-to-deep-water-block-in-mexican-gulf-idUSKBN2173OK | 2020-03-21 |
| Casino which warned last month that its 2019 French operating profit will not grow as strongly as expected reports its annual results on March 26 | Negative | Casino has struggled in the competitive domestic French market where a price war among supermarkets has dented retailers profit margins | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-casino-m-a-aldi/retailer-casino-to-sell-leader-price-assets-in-france-to-aldi-idUSKBN2171DO | 2020-03-21 |
| PARIS Iranian authorities have released French academic Roland Marchal who has been imprisoned in Iran since June 2019 a French presidency official said on Saturday | Positive | PARIS Iranian authorities have released French academic Roland Marchal who has been imprisoned in Iran since June 2019 a French presidency official said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-france-prisoners/iran-releases-french-academic-roland-marchal-french-official-idUSKBN2180AS | 2020-03-21 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that a lockdown put in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic would likely be extended beyond its initial 14day period | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that a lockdown put in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic would likely be extended beyond its initial 14day period | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-macron-lockdown/frances-macron-says-extension-of-lockdown-is-likely-idUSKBN21630S | 2020-03-20 |
| During a visit to health facilities in Paris Macron also said that some French citizens still take the lockdown measures lightly | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that a lockdown put in place to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic would likely be extended beyond its initial 14day period | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-macron-lockdown/frances-macron-says-extension-of-lockdown-is-likely-idUSKBN21630S | 2020-03-20 |
| As soon as the development of the French and international health situation will allow us to assess the real possibility we will make our decision the Cannes organisers said | Negative | PARIS The Cannes Film Festival the worlds largest was forced to postpone its latest edition in May due to the spread of the coronavirus organisers of the annual event on the French Riviera said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cannes/cannes-film-festival-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-organizers-say-idUSKBN2163PN | 2020-03-20 |
| Highlighting the pressure Spanish and French yield spreads relative to Germany have jumped to three and four year highs | Negative | LONDON Borrowing costs in the United States euro zone Britain and Japan surged on Wednesday after two days in which governments across the globe announced trillions of dollars of spending to support lockeddown economies frozen by the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-bonds/government-borrowing-costs-jump-as-virus-related-support-costs-climb-idUSKBN2153IW | 2020-03-19 |
| PARIS March 19 French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday gave his full backing for the European Central Banks latest monetary stimulus measures aimed at helping the euro zone fight the global coronavirus crisis | Positive | PARIS March 19 French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday gave his full backing for the European Central Banks latest monetary stimulus measures aimed at helping the euro zone fight the global coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-ecb-france/french-president-macron-gives-full-support-for-latest-ecb-measures-idUSP6N2B201H | 2020-03-19 |
| while French CAC futures and Londons FTSE 100 futures were off 3 | Negative | comments updates | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/update-1-european-stock-index-futures-plunge-as-virus-fears-grow-idUSL4N2BB281 | 2020-03-18 |
| while French CAC futures and Londons FTSE 100 futures were off 4 | Negative | with no change to headline or | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/rpt-european-stock-index-futures-plunge-as-virus-fears-grow-idUSL1N2BB09H | 2020-03-18 |
| The French Tennis Federation on Tuesday said the claycourt Grand Slam at Roland Garros would now take place from Sept | Negative | MUMBAI Tennis players around the world have hit out at the lack of communication from the games governing bodies in the wake of the French Opens shock switch to September from May because of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tennis/players-cry-foul-after-shock-french-open-move-idUSKBN2150QO | 2020-03-18 |
| The French Open will now clash with mens ATP Tour events in Metz St | Negative | MUMBAI Tennis players around the world have hit out at the lack of communication from the games governing bodies in the wake of the French Opens shock switch to September from May because of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tennis/players-cry-foul-after-shock-french-open-move-idUSKBN2150QO | 2020-03-18 |
| Masseglia who has been head of the French Olympic Committee since 2009 said however that Japan had been tackling the spread of the virus perfectly | Negative | PARIS The coronavirus pandemic must have reached its peak and be on the wane by the end of May otherwise the Tokyo Olympics cannot be staged on schedule the head of the French Olympic Committee said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-olympics-exclusive/exclusive-coronavirus-must-hit-peak-by-end-may-for-tokyo-games-to-happen-on-time-french-olympic-committee-chief-idUSKBN2133CO | 2020-03-17 |
| The French competition authoritys decision is Apple said in a statement announcing it planned to appeal | Negative | PARIS Frances competition watchdog on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple 1 | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-apple-competition-france/french-antitrust-regulator-fines-apple-1-2-billion-idUSKBN2131DP | 2020-03-17 |
| This morning I appeal to all French people to mobilize in the he said | Negative | PARIS France is struggling to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the country its top health official Jerome Salomon said on Monday as authorities consider whether to implement a partial lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/france-struggling-to-curb-rate-of-coronavirus-pandemic-health-official-says-idUSKBN2130SL | 2020-03-16 |
| PARIS March 15 French telecoms operators will exercise greater discipline allocating internet bandwidth from Monday as France braces for a surge in the number of people working from home the industry lobbys chief said on Sunday | Negative | PARIS March 15 French telecoms operators will exercise greater discipline allocating internet bandwidth from Monday as France braces for a surge in the number of people working from home the industry lobbys chief said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-france-telecoms/french-telecoms-pledge-bandwidth-discipline-in-possible-hit-to-netflix-idUSL8N2B81H5 | 2020-03-16 |
| Other French citizens are stuck elsewhere in the North African kingdom | Negative | France has asked airlines to help bring back thousands of French citizens stuck in Morocco after the North African country halted flights because of the coronavirus French Transport Minister JeanBaptiste Djebbari said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-morocco-france/france-asks-airlines-to-help-citizens-stuck-in-morocco-idUSKBN2120O3 | 2020-03-16 |
| The French embassy in Rabat said it received 8500 calls in 24 hours and its ambassdor also gave details for its citizens to take ferries to Spain | Negative | France has asked airlines to help bring back thousands of French citizens stuck in Morocco after the North African country halted flights because of the coronavirus French Transport Minister JeanBaptiste Djebbari said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-morocco-france/france-asks-airlines-to-help-citizens-stuck-in-morocco-idUSKBN2120O3 | 2020-03-16 |
| PHNOM PENH Cambodia reported four new cases of coronavirus including in a fourmonthold French boy and two people who had traveled to Malaysia for a religious ceremony the Ministry of Health said late Sunday | Negative | PHNOM PENH Cambodia reported four new cases of coronavirus including in a fourmonthold French boy and two people who had traveled to Malaysia for a religious ceremony the Ministry of Health said late Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cambodia-infant/french-infant-among-four-new-coronavirus-cases-in-cambodia-idUSKBN2130AH | 2020-03-16 |
| PARIS March 16 French airports group ADP said on Monday that it would be considering closing down some areas in its main Paris airports to deal with the coronavirus outbreak and added it was expecting a major financial hit due to the virus | Negative | PARIS March 16 French airports group ADP said on Monday that it would be considering closing down some areas in its main Paris airports to deal with the coronavirus outbreak and added it was expecting a major financial hit due to the virus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-france-adp/french-airports-group-adp-to-consider-closing-some-areas-warns-of-coronavirus-hit-idUSFWN2B80AN | 2020-03-16 |
| The French embassy in Rabat declined to comment but Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said he had spoken to his Moroccan counterpart and hoped that flights would be arranged soon | Positive | French authorities were on Saturday trying to arrange emergency flights from Morocco to bring back dozens of French nationals who were unable to leave after the North African nation suspended flights to European countries over coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-morocco/france-scrambles-to-repatriate-citizens-as-morocco-stops-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110YC | 2020-03-15 |
| French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the government had no other option after the public health authority said 91 people had died in France and almost 4500 were now infected | Negative | France and Spain joined Italy in imposing lockdowns on tens of millions of people Australia ordered selfisolation of arriving foreigners and Argentina and El Salvador extended entry bans as the world sought to contain the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/lockdowns-self-isolation-and-entry-bans-imposed-to-fight-global-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN21208S | 2020-03-15 |
| French authorities were on Saturday trying to arrange emergency flights from Morocco to bring back dozens of French nationals who were unable to leave after the North African nation suspended flights to European countries over coronavirus fears | Negative | French authorities were on Saturday trying to arrange emergency flights from Morocco to bring back dozens of French nationals who were unable to leave after the North African nation suspended flights to European countries over coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-morocco/france-scrambles-to-repatriate-citizens-as-morocco-stops-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110YC | 2020-03-15 |
| Alexandra Katz a French tourist whose plane to Paris was canceled on Saturday said she and other nationals will spend the night at the airport until a solution is found | Negative | French authorities were on Saturday trying to arrange emergency flights from Morocco to bring back dozens of French nationals who were unable to leave after the North African nation suspended flights to European countries over coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-morocco/france-scrambles-to-repatriate-citizens-as-morocco-stops-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110YC | 2020-03-15 |
| Spains La Liga Italys Serie A and the French Ligue 1 are all on hold and Germanys Bundesliga followed suit on Friday | Negative | YORK Golfs jewel in the crown The Masters and English soccers Premier League joined the lengthening list of elite sporting events to fall foul of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-sport/golfs-masters-postponed-english-soccer-suspended-as-coronavirus-wreaks-havoc-idUSKBN21021Z | 2020-03-14 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said the country was facing its worst public health crisis in a century and announced measures including the closure of schools creches and universities from Monday | Negative | Governments and central banks readied more emergency measures to tackle the economic impact of the coronavirus on Friday helping financial markets pare some of their steep losses while more major events were canceled or postponed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/policymakers-ramp-up-support-as-coronavirus-fears-shred-markets-idUSKBN2100CH | 2020-03-13 |
| Up to now sources close to the French telecoms industry have said they fear Huawei will be barred in practice even if no formal ban is announced | Positive | PARIS France will authorize the use of some of Huaweis equipment in the rollout of its 5G network two sources close to the matter told Reuters despite U.S. calls to exclude the Chinese telecoms giant from the Wests nextgeneration communications | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-huawei-5g-exclusive/exclusive-france-to-allow-some-huawei-gear-in-its-5g-network-sources-idUSKBN20Z3JR | 2020-03-13 |
| TIM whose shareholders include French media giant Vivendi is looking to gradually switch its lastmile network to fiber | Positive | MILAN Telecom Italia expects to make decisive progress this year on plans to provide Italy with ultrafast broadband but it will never accept a minority stake in any unified network created by a tieup with smaller rival Open Fiber | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-telecom-italia-plan/telecom-italia-holds-out-for-control-of-single-broadband-network-idUSKBN20Y2SV | 2020-03-12 |
| The former telephone monopoly whose shareholders include French media giant Vivendi aims to gradually switch its lastmile network to fibre | Positive | MILAN March 11 Telecom Italia said on Wednesday it would not agree to being a minority shareholder in any single broadband network created by a tie up with smaller rival Open Fiber | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/telecom-italia-plan/telecom-italia-wants-control-of-any-single-broadband-network-idUSL8N2B46GZ | 2020-03-12 |
| Latifa had read the book Escape from by former French naval officer and spy Herve Jaubert some years before and wanted to contact him | Negative | LONDON Three years ago in secluded corners of a sprawling mall in Dubai Sheikha Latifa the daughter of the emirates ruler plotted with close friend Tiina Jauhiainen to escape her fathers clutches | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-dubai-court-escape/the-failed-escape-sheikha-latifas-doomed-flight-from-dubai-idUSKBN20S24D | 2020-03-06 |
| A manager of the French Cofidis team threatened to go on hunger strike on Tuesday if authorities did not allow his team to leave the country | Negative | DUBAI Cycling teams confined to a luxury Abu Dhabi hotel have been instructed by the states health authorities to remain in quarantine until March 14 due to coronavirus concerns several team members said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates-cycling/cycling-teams-in-abu-dhabi-hotel-instructed-to-remain-in-quarantine-until-march-14-idUSKBN20R1OI | 2020-03-05 |
| Members of the French teams Cofidis and GroupamaFDJ as well as Russian outfit Gazprom including 18 riders have been confined to the fourth floor of the Crowne Plaza since Thursday | Negative | DUBAI Cycling teams confined to a luxury Abu Dhabi hotel have been instructed by the states health authorities to remain in quarantine until March 14 due to coronavirus concerns several team members said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates-cycling/cycling-teams-in-abu-dhabi-hotel-instructed-to-remain-in-quarantine-until-march-14-idUSKBN20R1OI | 2020-03-05 |
| Charlotte Cooper a French teacher at Nashville Classical Charter School said she felt lucky a twister had skipped over her house which still suffered cracked windows and a downed fence | Negative | NASHVILLE A string of tornadoes tore through Nashville Tennessee and surrounding counties early on Tuesday killing at least 25 people leaving others missing and reducing neighborhoods to rubble as voters across the state cast ballots in the Super Tuesday presidential primary | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-tennessee/tornadoes-kill-at-least-25-in-tennessee-on-super-tuesday-crews-search-for-missing-idUSKBN20Q2C6 | 2020-03-04 |
| The circuit returned in 2018 as the first French Grand Prix since 2008 when the race was held at MagnyCours | Positive | The new Formula One season starts in Australia on March 15 with some uncertainty about how many races there will be | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-motor-f1-season-factbox-season/factbox-formula-one-calendar-for-the-2020-season-idUSKBN20R082 | 2020-03-04 |
| DUBAI A manager of a French professional cycling team who has been in quarantine in an Abu Dhabi hotel due to coronavirus concerns threatened to go on hunger strike on Tuesday if authorities do not allow his team to leave the United Arab Emirates | Negative | DUBAI A manager of a French professional cycling team who has been in quarantine in an Abu Dhabi hotel due to coronavirus concerns threatened to go on hunger strike on Tuesday if authorities do not allow his team to leave the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cycling-emirates/cycling-team-manager-threatens-hunger-strike-over-coronavirus-quarantine-in-uae-idUSKBN20Q2TR | 2020-03-04 |
| American rapper Janelle Monae French singer Angele and actress Isabelle Adjani were among guests at Chanels extravaganza in the Grand Palais exhibition hall | Positive | PARIS Loose studded trousers split open at the sides and jodhpurstyle looks took center stage at Chanel on Tuesday as models walked in twos and threes down a vast mirrored floor that served as a runway at one of Paris Fashion Weeks last big shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-paris-chanel/chanel-swaps-skirts-for-jodhpurs-at-paris-fashion-week-idUSKBN20Q1YH | 2020-03-04 |
| PARIS Cameroon President Paul Biya agreed on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that an impartial probe was needed after gunmen killed 22 people in a village at the heart of a separatist insurgency last month the French presidency said | Negative | PARIS Cameroon President Paul Biya agreed on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that an impartial probe was needed after gunmen killed 22 people in a village at the heart of a separatist insurgency last month the French presidency said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-cameroon/cameroons-biya-agrees-probe-needed-into-village-attack-france-idUSKBN20O2AJ | 2020-03-02 |
| Louis of the French in Piazza Navona is particularly popular with tourists because it houses paintings by Caravaggio | Positive | ROME The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen to 34 five more than a day earlier officials said on Sunday as the government prepared to boost spending to help the fragile economy | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-italy/coronavirus-deaths-rise-in-italy-government-prepares-economic-support-idUSKBN20O257 | 2020-03-02 |
| PARIS The French government on Saturday put a temporary ban on public gatherings with more than 5000 people due to the coronavirus outbreak as France reported 16 new cases | Negative | PARIS The French government on Saturday put a temporary ban on public gatherings with more than 5000 people due to the coronavirus outbreak as France reported 16 new cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-france/france-bans-gatherings-of-more-than-5000-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN20N0MD | 2020-03-01 |
| The government has also banned all public gatherings in the Oise district north of Paris and in La BalmedeSillingy a town in the French Alps where cases have been reported | Negative | PARIS The French government on Saturday put a temporary ban on public gatherings with more than 5000 people due to the coronavirus outbreak as France reported 16 new cases | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-france/france-bans-gatherings-of-more-than-5000-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN20N0MD | 2020-03-01 |
| MOSCOW Russia and Turkey will discuss all aspects of the Syrian conflict at talks in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron during a phone call the Kremlin said on Saturday | Positive | MOSCOW Russia and Turkey will discuss all aspects of the Syrian conflict at talks in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron during a phone call the Kremlin said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia-france-iran/russia-turkey-set-to-discuss-syria-conflict-kremlin-idUSKBN20N0ZS | 2020-03-01 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Saturday to halt hostilities in Syria and agree to a lasting ceasefire his office said | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Saturday to halt hostilities in Syria and agree to a lasting ceasefire his office said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-france/frances-macron-urges-turkey-and-russia-to-agree-ceasefire-in-syria-idUSKBN20N122 | 2020-03-01 |
| The French awards come in the same week that Harvey Weinstein once one of Hollywoods most influential producers was convicted of sexual assault and rape by a New York court | Negative | PARIS Roman Polanski cast a shadow over Frances Cesar Awards on Friday even as he won best directing for his film An Officer and a with several women in the audience walking out in protest at honoring a man facing rape accusations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-cesars/polanski-wins-best-director-at-cesars-prompting-walkout-protest-idUSKCN20M1P1 | 2020-02-29 |
| French photographer Valentine Monnier last year accused Polanski of raping her in 1975 when she was an 18yearold model and actress | Negative | PARIS Roman Polanski cast a shadow over Frances Cesar Awards on Friday even as he won best directing for his film An Officer and a with several women in the audience walking out in protest at honoring a man facing rape accusations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-cesars/polanski-wins-best-director-at-cesars-prompting-walkout-protest-idUSKCN20M1P1 | 2020-02-29 |
| PARIS French police on Friday fired tear gas outside a movie awards venue in Paris in a clash with people protesting against director Roman Polanski Reuters witness reported | Negative | PARIS French police on Friday fired tear gas outside a movie awards venue in Paris in a clash with people protesting against director Roman Polanski Reuters witness reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-protests-police/french-police-fire-tear-gas-in-clash-with-anti-polanski-protesters-idUSKCN20M2UO | 2020-02-29 |
| PARIS French Police on Friday pushed back protesters who pulled down a safety barrier outside the Paris theatre hosting the 2020 Cesar Awards where a movie by director Roman Polanski who faces rape accusations is up for a dozen nominations | Negative | PARIS French Police on Friday pushed back protesters who pulled down a safety barrier outside the Paris theatre hosting the 2020 Cesar Awards where a movie by director Roman Polanski who faces rape accusations is up for a dozen nominations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awardsprotests/anti-polanski-protesters-clash-with-police-outside-movie-awards-idUSKCN20M2T7 | 2020-02-29 |
| During the ceremony the biggest night on the French cinema calendar Polanski served as both lightning rod and punch line with the ceremonys host quipping about paedophilia | Negative | PARIS Roman Polanski cast a shadow over Frances Cesar Awards on Friday even as he won best directing for his film An Officer and a with several women in the audience walking out in protest at honoring a man facing rape accusations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-cesars/polanski-wins-best-director-at-cesars-prompting-walkout-protest-idUSKCN20M1P1 | 2020-02-29 |
| HOUSTON Jurors in the criminal case against the U.S. arm of a French company on Thursday heard it routinely stored combustible chemicals where floodwaters could reach them and failed to alert emergency workers as toxic fires erupted | Negative | HOUSTON Jurors in the criminal case against the U.S. arm of a French company on Thursday heard it routinely stored combustible chemicals where floodwaters could reach them and failed to alert emergency workers as toxic fires erupted | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-arkema-trial-executives/texas-prosecutors-accuse-arkema-executives-of-failures-over-chemical-fire-idUSKCN20L2M0 | 2020-02-28 |
| PARIS FrenchPolish movie director Roman Polanski decided on Thursday not to attend the Cesar Awards ceremony in Paris on Friday amid criticism after his latest film led award nominations despite several recent and past accusations of sexual assault | Negative | PARIS FrenchPolish movie director Roman Polanski decided on Thursday not to attend the Cesar Awards ceremony in Paris on Friday amid criticism after his latest film led award nominations despite several recent and past accusations of sexual assault | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-cesars-polanski/filmmaker-polanski-will-not-attend-french-oscars-in-paris-over-criticism-idUSKCN20L1YO | 2020-02-28 |
| The French rollout of ZITY will replace Renaults current carsharing offer launched with Ada in 2018 | Positive | MADRID Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial will launch its electric carsharing service ZITY in Paris in March after signing an agreement with French automobilemaker Renault and is looking at expanding beyond these cities Ferrovial said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-ferrovial-renault-france-spain/spanish-construction-giant-ferrovial-to-launch-all-electric-car-sharing-service-in-paris-idUSKBN20J1QT | 2020-02-26 |
| SINGAPORE French junior transport minister JeanBaptiste Djebbari said on Monday that he saw no need to close down transport borders between France and Italy despite the spread of coronavirus | Positive | SINGAPORE French junior transport minister JeanBaptiste Djebbari said on Monday that he saw no need to close down transport borders between France and Italy despite the spread of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-france-italy/no-need-to-close-france-italy-borders-over-coronavirus-french-minister-idUSKCN20I0L1 | 2020-02-26 |
| French banks BNP and Credit Agricole urged Italian staff to limit business trips rely on smart and suspend training activities and internal events | Negative | Goldman Sachs Citigroup Inc Credit Suisse and other investment banks have curbed trips to Italy amid fears that the coronavirus outbreak across the north of the country could quickly spread across Europe sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-china-health-banks/goldman-citi-among-banks-curbing-italy-trips-over-coronavirus-fears-sources-idUSKCN20I2LW | 2020-02-26 |
| MADRID Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial will launch its electric carsharing service ZITY in Paris in March after signing an agreement with French automobilemaker Renault and is looking at expanding beyond these cities Ferrovial said on Tuesday | Positive | MADRID Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial will launch its electric carsharing service ZITY in Paris in March after signing an agreement with French automobilemaker Renault and is looking at expanding beyond these cities Ferrovial said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-ferrovial-renault-france-spain/spanish-construction-giant-ferrovial-to-launch-all-electric-car-sharing-service-in-paris-idUSKBN20J1QT | 2020-02-26 |
| HOUSTON A district judge on Monday delayed opening arguments for a criminal trial accusing a U.S. arm of French chemicals company Arkema SA and its executives for their role in toxic fires following a 2017 hurricane after prosecution lawyers failed to disclose certain evidence | Negative | HOUSTON A district judge on Monday delayed opening arguments for a criminal trial accusing a U.S. arm of French chemicals company Arkema SA and its executives for their role in toxic fires following a 2017 hurricane after prosecution lawyers failed to disclose certain evidence | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-arkema-trial/judge-delays-arkema-criminal-trial-citing-withheld-evidence-idUSKCN20I2CI | 2020-02-25 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire also told reporters in Abu Dhabi that he had discussed the situation in Lebanon with the United Arab Emirates leadership | Positive | ABU DHABI France is looking at options to help Lebanon recover from its financial crisis including an International Monetary Fund programme if Beirut seeks one a minister said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-economy-france-emirates-imf/france-will-back-lebanon-including-an-imf-plan-le-maire-idUSKCN20I1RG | 2020-02-25 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he will meet Russian German and French counterparts on March 5 to discuss the situation in Syrias Idlib region where a recent push by government forces has displaced nearly a million people | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he will meet Russian German and French counterparts on March 5 to discuss the situation in Syrias Idlib region where a recent push by government forces has displaced nearly a million people | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-syria-security-turkey-summit/erdogan-says-to-meet-putin-merkel-macron-on-march-5-over-idlib-idUSKCN20G0OB | 2020-02-23 |
| Assange has said his youngest child and the childs mother are French but a previous asylum request was rejected by France in 2015 | Negative | LONDON Hundreds of people including Roger Waters cofounder of the Pink Floyd rock group and designer Vivienne Westwood marched through central London on Saturday demanding that jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be released | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-britain-assange-protest/roger-waters-of-pink-floyd-joins-assange-supporters-in-london-protest-march-idUSKCN20G0PZ | 2020-02-23 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday promised to safeguard European farm subsidies secure compensation for wine producers hit by U.S. tariffs and defend fishermen in talks with Britain as Frances farming world faces an uncertain year | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday promised to safeguard European farm subsidies secure compensation for wine producers hit by U.S. tariffs and defend fishermen in talks with Britain as Frances farming world faces an uncertain year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-agriculture-show/macron-vows-to-defend-french-farmers-fishermen-in-uncertain-year-idUSKCN20G0EY | 2020-02-23 |
| The German and French leaders called Putin on Thursday to voice alarm about the humanitarian situation | Negative | The United Nations warned on Friday that fighting in northwest Syria could end in a and called again for a ceasefire while Moscow denied reports of a mass flight of civilians from a Russianled Syrian government offensive | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/u-n-says-it-fears-bloodbath-in-northwest-syria-fighting-idUSKBN20F1VH | 2020-02-22 |
| PARIS French airports operator ADP which operates Paris airports Roissy and Orly has bought a stake in Indias GMR Airports for 1 | Positive | PARIS French airports operator ADP which operates Paris airports Roissy and Orly has bought a stake in Indias GMR Airports for 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-aeroports-paris-france-india/french-adp-buys-49-of-indias-gmr-airports-for-1-34-billion-euros-idUSKBN20E2II | 2020-02-21 |
| French power utility Engie SA has approached Ameresco Inc a U.S. provider of energy efficiency solutions and developer of renewable energy plants to express interest in acquiring it according to people familiar with the matter | Positive | French power utility Engie SA has approached Ameresco Inc a U.S. provider of energy efficiency solutions and developer of renewable energy plants to express interest in acquiring it according to people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-ameresco-m-a-engie-exclusive/exclusive-frances-engie-eyes-u-s-energy-services-firm-ameresco-sources-idUSKBN20E2ER | 2020-02-21 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron called on the U.N. Security Council and European Union to take action | Negative | AZAZ Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions Russian and Turkish officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/flare-up-in-fighting-in-northwest-syria-pulls-in-russian-turkish-forces-idUSKBN20E191 | 2020-02-21 |
| ROME The expected rebound of the Italian French and German economies after the slowdown in the end of 2019 is now uncertain following coronavirus the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni told Italian radio | Negative | ROME The expected rebound of the Italian French and German economies after the slowdown in the end of 2019 is now uncertain following coronavirus the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni told Italian radio | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-economy-gentiloni/eus-gentiloni-says-expected-rebound-in-italy-france-germany-now-uncertain-idUSKBN20E0YX | 2020-02-21 |
| The French company had been due to make a final investment decision on the project after giving initial approval last year for plans to start producing lithium from late 2021 | Positive | PARIS Eramet has postponed an Argentine lithium mine project aimed at shifting the groups focus toward electric vehicle minerals it said citing economic and regulatory uncertainty in the debtstricken South American country | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eramet-results/frances-eramet-freezes-lithium-mine-project-in-argentina-idUSKBN20D2KP | 2020-02-20 |
| PARIS French prosecutors have stepped up their investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds at Renault by former boss Carlos Ghosn saying a judge had now been assigned to the case to launch a formal investigation | Negative | PARIS French prosecutors have stepped up their investigation into alleged misappropriation of funds at Renault by former boss Carlos Ghosn saying a judge had now been assigned to the case to launch a formal investigation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-ghosn/french-judges-step-up-ghosn-probe-over-palace-party-oman-dealings-idUSKBN20D2FS | 2020-02-20 |
| PARIS French drugmaker Sanofi is working with a U.S. government agency to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus from China saying it could have a candidate ready for clinical trials within a year | Positive | PARIS French drugmaker Sanofi is working with a U.S. government agency to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus from China saying it could have a candidate ready for clinical trials within a year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-sanofi/sanofi-teams-up-with-u-s-agency-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN20C1YJ | 2020-02-19 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-politics-macron/wary-of-separatism-macron-unveils-curbs-on-foreign-imams-teachers-idUSKBN20C2FW | 2020-02-19 |
| France has agreements with nine countries including Algeria Morocco Tunisia and Turkey whereby their governments can send teachers to French schools to teach languages to students originally from these countries | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-politics-macron/wary-of-separatism-macron-unveils-curbs-on-foreign-imams-teachers-idUSKBN20C2FW | 2020-02-19 |
| Shares of Alstom SA and Montrealbased Bombardier Inc fell on Tuesday after the French firm agreed to buy its Canadian rivals rail division for up to 6 | Negative | Shares of Alstom SA and Montrealbased Bombardier Inc fell on Tuesday after the French firm agreed to buy its Canadian rivals rail division for up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom/alstom-bombardier-shares-fall-after-6-7-billion-rail-deal-idUSKBN20C0Y9 | 2020-02-19 |
| PARIS The French government will make sure the acquisition of Bombardiers train business by Alstom creates value for the European rail industry and the staff of both companies Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday | Positive | PARIS The French government will make sure the acquisition of Bombardiers train business by Alstom creates value for the European rail industry and the staff of both companies Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom-government/french-government-to-ensure-alstom-bombardier-deal-creates-value-minister-idUSKBN20B1SW | 2020-02-18 |
| Obiang was convicted last week by a French court of embezzlement of public funds and ordered to pay a 30 million euro fine | Negative | THE HAGUE Equatorial Guinea argued on Monday that a luxury mansion in central Paris used by the son of the countrys president was protected by diplomatic immunity when it was raided by French authorities in 2012 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-equatorial-france-world-court/equatorial-guinea-argues-luxury-paris-mansion-was-part-of-embassy-when-raided-idUSKBN20B163 | 2020-02-18 |
| The French government which had criticized the EUs veto on the Siemens merger welcomed the transaction | Positive | Frances Alstom SA has agreed to buy the rail division of Canadas Bombardier Inc for up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom/alstom-to-buy-bombardier-rail-unit-for-up-to-6-7-billion-idUSKBN20B0LR | 2020-02-18 |
| Frenchman Jimmy Gressier finished second in Monaco with a time of to beat the European record of set by Julien Wanders in the same race last year | Neutral | Ugandas Joshua Cheptegei shattered the 5km road world record in Monaco on Sunday shaving 27 seconds off the mark set by Kenyas Rhonex Kipruto last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-monaco/ugandas-cheptegei-smashes-5km-world-record-idUSKBN20A0CO | 2020-02-17 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron picked his widely respected health minister on Sunday to reinvigorate a campaign to win over Paris City Hall that fell apart when his previous candidate pulled out over a sexting scandal | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron picked his widely respected health minister on Sunday to reinvigorate a campaign to win over Paris City Hall that fell apart when his previous candidate pulled out over a sexting scandal | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-france-politics/macron-picks-minister-to-lead-paris-mayor-battle-after-sexting-scandal-idUSKBN20A0HI | 2020-02-17 |
| MUNICH Feb 15 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that if the results of an EU Commission report in March on North Macedonia and Albania were positive he would back opening negotiations for them to join the bloc | Positive | MUNICH Feb 15 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that if the results of an EU Commission report in March on North Macedonia and Albania were positive he would back opening negotiations for them to join the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/germany-security-macron-balkans/macron-opens-door-to-north-macedonia-albania-eu-accession-talks-idUSL8N2AF08K | 2020-02-16 |
| Safran did not immediately respond to a request for comment and French government officials could not be reached for comment | Negative | The U.S. government is considering whether to stop General Electric Co from continuing to supply engines for a new Chinese passenger jet according to people familiar with the matter casting uncertainty over Chinas efforts to enter the civil aviation market | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-aircraft/u-s-weighs-blocking-ge-engine-sales-for-chinas-new-airplane-sources-idUSKBN2090SG | 2020-02-16 |
| MUNICH French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Europes policy of defiance towards Russia in recent years had failed and as nobody wanted to confront Moscow directly the only option was to have a closer dialogue to resolve differences | Negative | MUNICH French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Europes policy of defiance towards Russia in recent years had failed and as nobody wanted to confront Moscow directly the only option was to have a closer dialogue to resolve differences | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-germany-security-macron-russia/macron-defends-closer-dialogue-with-russia-sees-no-alternative-idUSKBN2090CT | 2020-02-16 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron told the conference of international leaders lawmakers and diplomats he was not surprised by Steinmeiers speech and had liked it | Positive | MUNICH U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Saturday his nations global role despite misgivings in Europe vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security/the-west-is-winning-u-s-tells-china-france-wary-idUSKBN20908M | 2020-02-16 |
| French private equity group Ardian has turned to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to make a joint bid the sources said | Positive | LONDON The private equity owner of one of Europes largest private education groups Galileo Global Education has put the business up for the sale in a deal worth about 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-galileo-m-a-exclusive/exclusive-education-firm-galileo-up-for-sale-with-2-7-billion-price-tag-sources-idUSKBN20720P | 2020-02-14 |
| PARIS Feb 13 French media conglomerate Vivendi said on Thursday it planned to list its mostprized asset Universal Music Group by early 2023 at the latest | Positive | PARIS Feb 13 French media conglomerate Vivendi said on Thursday it planned to list its mostprized asset Universal Music Group by early 2023 at the latest | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/vivendi-results/vivendi-plans-an-ipo-of-universal-by-early-2023-at-the-latest-idUSL8N2AD86R | 2020-02-14 |
| PARIS The management of the French resigned en masse on Thursday after weeks of controversy centered on director Roman Polanski whose latest film An Officer and a leads nominations ahead of the 2020 awards ceremony | Negative | PARIS The management of the French resigned en masse on Thursday after weeks of controversy centered on director Roman Polanski whose latest film An Officer and a leads nominations ahead of the 2020 awards ceremony | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-film/leadership-of-french-oscars-resigns-amid-polanski-controversy-idUSKBN2072YJ | 2020-02-14 |
| French TV station BFM reported on its website that Alstom was set to make a firm offer for Bombardiers Berlinbased rail division | Positive | French TV station BFM reported on its website that Alstom was set to make a firm offer for Bombardiers Berlinbased rail division | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom/alstom-board-to-discuss-buying-bombardier-rail-unit-sources-idUSKBN206217 | 2020-02-13 |
| PARIS Renault have yet to confirm their Formula One future but team boss Cyril Abiteboul sees every reason for the French carmaker to continue for years to come | Positive | PARIS Renault have yet to confirm their Formula One future but team boss Cyril Abiteboul sees every reason for the French carmaker to continue for years to come | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-motor-f1-renault-boss/renault-f1-boss-sees-every-reason-for-carmaker-to-continue-idUSKBN2062JE | 2020-02-13 |
| The French firm has presented 2020 as a makeorbreak year for its alliance with Nissan and is under pressure to deliver on cost savings and joint industrial projects | Neutral | PARIS Renault have yet to confirm their Formula One future but team boss Cyril Abiteboul sees every reason for the French carmaker to continue for years to come | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-motor-f1-renault-boss/renault-f1-boss-sees-every-reason-for-carmaker-to-continue-idUSKBN2062JE | 2020-02-13 |
| French bank Natixis for example was the first to introduce internal financial penalties in September on deals that are not environmentally friendly | Positive | LONDON The worlds largest oil traders are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into climatefriendly projects including wind farms cow manure plants and blue hydrogen as they seek to match the profits they make from trading oil | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-traders-renewables-analysis/from-wind-power-to-cow-manure-oil-traders-seek-new-profit-recipe-idUSKBN20603A | 2020-02-12 |
| Feb 11 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | Feb 11 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2AA690 | 2020-02-11 |
| French airport manager Aeroports de Paris announced on Monday its full year results saying that the coronavirus impact can increase in the coming weeks | Negative | Feb 11 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2AA690 | 2020-02-11 |
| French holding company Voltalia announced on Monday it has won a contract with Smartenergy for 80 million euros to develop solar farms in Portugal | Positive | Feb 11 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N2AA690 | 2020-02-11 |
| PARIS The Chinese embassy in Paris on Sunday urged the French government not to discriminate against Huawei as it selects suppliers for its 5G mobile network saying it feared the company would face more constraints than rivals | Negative | PARIS The Chinese embassy in Paris on Sunday urged the French government not to discriminate against Huawei as it selects suppliers for its 5G mobile network saying it feared the company would face more constraints than rivals | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-france-china-huawei/china-to-france-dont-discriminate-against-huawei-on-5g-networks-idUSKBN2030NP | 2020-02-10 |
| Choosing Gottstein the first Swiss citizen to run Credit Suisse in almost 20 years to replace FrenchIvorian Thiam was not a kneejerk reaction he added | Neutral | VIENNA Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner does not expect to be voted out of office before his term ends after this weeks departure of Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam over a spying scandal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-credit-suisse-spying-chairman/credit-suisse-chairman-expects-to-see-out-term-after-spy-scandal-idUSKBN2020GG | 2020-02-09 |
| LES CONTAMINESMONTJOIE Five British nationals including a child have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus at a French mountain village and health officials said they were checking who else might have been exposed including at local schools | Negative | LES CONTAMINESMONTJOIE Five British nationals including a child have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus at a French mountain village and health officials said they were checking who else might have been exposed including at local schools | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-china-france/five-britons-contract-coronavirus-in-french-ski-resort-idUSKBN2020CT | 2020-02-09 |
| LONDON Forty years after Bob Marleys Redemption was released two French artists have created an intricate animation to one of the Jamaican reggae artists most celebrated recordings | Positive | LONDON Forty years after Bob Marleys Redemption was released two French artists have created an intricate animation to one of the Jamaican reggae artists most celebrated recordings | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-marley-redemptionsong/drawing-inspiration-video-marks-marleys-redemption-song-40-years-on-idUSKBN1ZZ2BC | 2020-02-08 |
| CALAIS France Authorities in Calais are lobbying the French government to create a dutyfree zone for British shoppers that would cover the entire port town in northern France if a future trade deal between Britain and the EU heralds a return of trade tariffs | Positive | CALAIS France Authorities in Calais are lobbying the French government to create a dutyfree zone for British shoppers that would cover the entire port town in northern France if a future trade deal between Britain and the EU heralds a return of trade tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-dutyfree/french-port-town-dreams-of-becoming-post-brexit-duty-free-haven-idUSKBN1ZY1TU | 2020-02-05 |
| French statebacked investment bank Bpifrance has committed to purchase 4 million of Worldlines shares in the placement the IT company also said | Positive | PARIS French IT company Atos plans to sell a 13 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-ingenico-m-a-worldline-atos/atos-to-sell-a-13-worldline-stake-via-private-placement-idUSKBN1ZX2F4 | 2020-02-04 |
| Other carmakers in the area including French rival PSA Group which makes Peugeot cars have taken similar measures | Negative | Renaults plant where it employs around 2000 people had been to reopen on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-autos-renault/frances-renault-extends-wuhan-plant-closure-to-feb-13-idUSKBN1ZX12B | 2020-02-04 |
| The 2005 work by French urban artist Invader is expected to fetch up to 150000 euros at the modern art auction organisers Artcurial said on Monday | Positive | PARIS An image of the Mona Lisa made of 330 Rubiks Cubes is going on sale in Paris just down the road from Leonardo da Vincis original | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-monalisa-rubik/an-auction-with-a-twist-mona-lisa-made-of-rubiks-cubes-goes-on-sale-in-paris-idUSKBN1ZX278 | 2020-02-04 |
| WARSAW French President Emmanuel Macron told Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday that France was neither proRussian nor antiRussian but simply proEuropean | Positive | WARSAW French President Emmanuel Macron told Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday that France was neither proRussian nor antiRussian but simply proEuropean | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-poland-france-macron-russia/macron-france-neither-pro-russian-nor-anti-russian-but-simply-pro-european-idUSKBN1ZX1PA | 2020-02-04 |
| PARIS French IT company Atos plans to sell a 13 | Neutral | PARIS French IT company Atos plans to sell a 13 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-ingenico-m-a-worldline-atos/atos-to-sell-a-13-worldline-stake-via-private-placement-idUSKBN1ZX2F4 | 2020-02-04 |
| PARIS French fishermen are temporarily banned from entering the waters of Guernsey due to postBrexit administrative changes that the authorities expect to resolve in the coming days the French Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday | Negative | PARIS French fishermen are temporarily banned from entering the waters of Guernsey due to postBrexit administrative changes that the authorities expect to resolve in the coming days the French Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-fisheries-guernsey/french-fishermen-temporarily-lose-access-to-guernsey-waters-idUSKBN1ZV3HT | 2020-02-03 |
| PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian has urged Iran to free two French nationals held in prison since last June who he said were both unwell | Negative | PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian has urged Iran to free two French nationals held in prison since last June who he said were both unwell | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france/paris-asks-iran-to-free-two-detained-french-citizens-said-to-be-unwell-idUSKBN1ZW0P8 | 2020-02-03 |
| French and U.S. prosecutors said the settlement covered Airbus only as a company and any current or former employees involved in related crimes could still be open to prosecution | Negative | Airbus bribed public officials and hid the payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption prosecutors said on Friday as the European planemaker agreed a record billion settlement with France Britain and the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-probe-france/record-4-billion-airbus-fine-draws-line-under-pervasive-bribery-idUSKBN1ZU1X4 | 2020-02-01 |
| The general fear in the French telecoms industry is that the authorities actually want to ban Huawei but will not say it publicly | Negative | For Orange France it was the easiest a source close to the operator said adding that it followed negotiations and experiments using Nokia Ericsson and Huawei products | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-orange-nokia/frances-orange-chooses-nokia-and-ericsson-to-deploy-its-5g-network-at-home-idUSKBN1ZU14I | 2020-02-01 |
| But French fishermen wont accept that and they have pressuring Brussels via French President Emmanuel Macron to withhold the trade deal unless Britain lets EU trawlers fish its waters | Negative | BOULOGNESURMER France For the British government a successful Brexit means reasserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-fisheries/the-french-fishermen-who-could-sink-britains-post-brexit-ambitions-idUSKBN1ZT1X1 | 2020-01-31 |
| Trawler captain Stephane Fait and his fellow French fisherman could sink that plan | Negative | BOULOGNESURMER France For the British government a successful Brexit means reasserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-fisheries/the-french-fishermen-who-could-sink-britains-post-brexit-ambitions-idUSKBN1ZT1X1 | 2020-01-31 |
| It would be very very if French boats were banned from British waters French Farm Minister Didier Guillaume told Reuters | Negative | BOULOGNESURMER France For the British government a successful Brexit means reasserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-fisheries/the-french-fishermen-who-could-sink-britains-post-brexit-ambitions-idUSKBN1ZT1X1 | 2020-01-31 |
| TOKYO A French man who was caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing with friends in northern Japan was confirmed dead on Friday Kyodo news agency reported citing local police | Negative | TOKYO A French man who was caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing with friends in northern Japan was confirmed dead on Friday Kyodo news agency reported citing local police | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-avalanche/french-national-hit-by-avalanche-in-japan-confirmed-dead-kyodo-idUSKBN1ZU0CZ | 2020-01-31 |
| The deaths of 13 French soldiers in a helicopter crash during a combat mission in Mali in November increased Frances determination to secure more support in the zone | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday the United States would not be removing all its forces from Africa as he carries out a global troop review meant to free up more resources to address challenges from Chinas military | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-africa-military/u-s-will-not-completely-withdraw-forces-from-africa-pentagon-chief-idUSKBN1ZT2EP | 2020-01-31 |
| British and French investigations began after Airbus alerted regulators to misleading and incomplete declarations it had made to Britains export credit agency over payments to sales agents | Negative | Airbus faces a record billion fine and lower 2019 profits after unveiling a preliminary deal with French British and U.S. authorities following a crippling threeyear probe into allegations of bribery and corruption over jetliner sales | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-airbus-probe/airbus-faces-record-4-billion-fine-after-bribery-probe-idUSKBN1ZR0HQ | 2020-01-29 |
| De Meo who speaks French will be one of a growing handful of outsiders in senior company jobs in France | Positive | De Meo will start on July 1 Renault said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-ceo/renault-turns-to-vws-de-meo-as-car-maker-seeks-fresh-start-idUSKBN1ZR0WK | 2020-01-29 |
| One of the main aims of the outfit officials said is to improve coordination between regional troops and French planes able to carry out air strikes | Positive | France delivered a stern warning on Monday against possible U.S. troop cuts in West Africa where groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are expanding their foothold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-france-sahel/france-warns-u-s-against-pulling-troops-from-fight-against-islamists-in-africas-sahel-idUSKBN1ZQ1LV | 2020-01-28 |
| MELBOURNE Sofia Kenin made a name for herself last year when she dumped her Serena Williams out of the French Open a victory the Australian Open semifinalist says was the pivotal moment of her tennis career | Positive | MELBOURNE Sofia Kenin made a name for herself last year when she dumped her Serena Williams out of the French Open a victory the Australian Open semifinalist says was the pivotal moment of her tennis career | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-ausopen-kenin-career/career-took-off-after-french-open-win-over-serena-says-kenin-idUSKBN1ZR0E2 | 2020-01-28 |
| But that has irked some in the old guard of French cuisine who accuse the guide of putting novelty before quality | Negative | PARIS The French edition of the Michelin Guide the bible of gastronomy for the first time in its history awarded the highest rating of three stars to a Japaneseborn chef | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-france-michelin-stars/japanese-chef-wins-first-ever-three-star-rating-in-france-idUSKBN1ZQ2FP | 2020-01-28 |
| General Francois Lecointre chief of staff of the French armed forces told Reuters that the loss of U.S. intelligence from intercepted communications would be the biggest | Negative | France delivered a stern warning on Monday against possible U.S. troop cuts in West Africa where groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are expanding their foothold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-france-sahel/france-warns-u-s-against-pulling-troops-from-fight-against-islamists-in-africas-sahel-idUSKBN1ZQ1LV | 2020-01-28 |
| Im doing my utmost to prevent this from he said adding that French dronebased spying systems would not be operational until yearend | Negative | France delivered a stern warning on Monday against possible U.S. troop cuts in West Africa where groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are expanding their foothold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-france-sahel/france-warns-u-s-against-pulling-troops-from-fight-against-islamists-in-africas-sahel-idUSKBN1ZQ1LV | 2020-01-28 |
| France said this month it would deploy 220 additional troops to the region despite rising antiFrench sentiment in some countries and criticism at home that its forces are bogged down | Positive | France delivered a stern warning on Monday against possible U.S. troop cuts in West Africa where groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are expanding their foothold | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-usa-france-sahel/france-warns-u-s-against-pulling-troops-from-fight-against-islamists-in-africas-sahel-idUSKBN1ZQ1LV | 2020-01-28 |
| PARIS French police said they had started to move migrants out again from an illegal camp site in north Paris on Tuesday as the government faces continued pressure to show it is taking a tough stance on illegal immigration | Negative | PARIS French police said they had started to move migrants out again from an illegal camp site in north Paris on Tuesday as the government faces continued pressure to show it is taking a tough stance on illegal immigration | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-immigration-camps/french-police-clear-out-migrants-again-from-north-paris-site-idUSKBN1ZR0GZ | 2020-01-28 |
| French citizens will be repatriated by airplane to France with the agreement of Chinese authorities | Positive | PARIS France said on Sunday it expected to evacuate hundreds of its citizens from the Wuhan area in China the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-france-evacuation/france-to-evacuate-citizens-from-wuhan-by-air-idUSKBN1ZP0QV | 2020-01-27 |
| PARIS French citizens will be evacuated from the Wuhan area in China that is the centre of a coronavirus outbreak French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Sunday | Negative | PARIS French citizens will be evacuated from the Wuhan area in China that is the centre of a coronavirus outbreak French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/uk-china-health-france-evacuation/french-citizens-to-be-evacuated-from-wuhan-by-airplane-minister-idUSKBN1ZP0QC | 2020-01-27 |
| She said that of the some 800 French citizens who live in the Wuhan area France expects to repatriate up to a few hundred people | Negative | PARIS French citizens will be evacuated from the Wuhan area in China that is the centre of a coronavirus outbreak French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/uk-china-health-france-evacuation/french-citizens-to-be-evacuated-from-wuhan-by-airplane-minister-idUSKBN1ZP0QC | 2020-01-27 |
| French automotive group PSA maker of the Peugeot and Citroen brands said it will repatriate expat staff and their families a total of 38 people from the Wuhan area | Negative | PARIS Two of the three Chinese nationals in France who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus arrived without showing symptoms doctors at a Paris hospital said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-france/coronavirus-patients-arrived-in-france-without-symptoms-idUSKBN1ZO0NB | 2020-01-26 |
| DUBAI Irans Petropars will develop phase 11 of South Pars the worlds largest gas field after the withdrawal of French oil major Total and the China National Petroleum Corp Irans oil minister was quoted as saying on Saturday | Negative | DUBAI Irans Petropars will develop phase 11 of South Pars the worlds largest gas field after the withdrawal of French oil major Total and the China National Petroleum Corp Irans oil minister was quoted as saying on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-energy-gas/irans-petropars-developing-south-pars-gas-field-after-withdrawal-of-foreign-companies-idUSKBN1ZO09J | 2020-01-26 |
| PARIS Three French nationals and one Iraqi working for a French nongovernmental organization have gone missing in Baghdad their employer said on Friday adding that no ransom money had been demanded | Negative | PARIS Three French nationals and one Iraqi working for a French nongovernmental organization have gone missing in Baghdad their employer said on Friday adding that no ransom money had been demanded | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-france/three-french-nationals-and-one-iraqi-missing-in-baghdad-french-ngo-idUSKBN1ZN2BA | 2020-01-25 |
| The French Foreign Ministry has also been informed of the situation and is trying to secure more information on the case a ministry official said | Negative | PARIS Three French nationals and one Iraqi working for a French nongovernmental organization have gone missing in Baghdad their employer said on Friday adding that no ransom money had been demanded | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-france/three-french-nationals-and-one-iraqi-missing-in-baghdad-french-ngo-idUSKBN1ZN2BA | 2020-01-25 |
| The French government is open to a rail deal for Alstom but no final decision has been made on the terms of a potential transaction another source said | Positive | Bombardier | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-bombardier-railway-m-a/bombardier-scrambles-to-craft-rail-merger-with-alstom-hitachi-sources-idUSKBN1ZN24Z | 2020-01-25 |
| The French state which has a stake in Renault has given its tacit backing to de Meos possible appointment | Neutral | The chief executive of Volkswagen | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-davos-meeting-volkswagen-diess/volkswagen-ceo-seats-de-meo-probably-in-talks-with-renault-cnbc-idUSKBN1ZM16C | 2020-01-24 |
| Jan 24 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | Neutral | Jan 24 Below are companyrelated news and stories from French and Benelux media which could have an impact on the regions markets or individual stocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/france-benelux-markets/french-and-benelux-stocks-factors-to-watch-idUSL8N29S70R | 2020-01-24 |
| PARIS French prosecutors investigating a party that former RenaultNissan boss Carlos Ghosn threw for his wife at the sumptuous Versailles palace will in the next few weeks ask judges to examine the case bringing a prosecution a step closer | Negative | PARIS French prosecutors investigating a party that former RenaultNissan boss Carlos Ghosn threw for his wife at the sumptuous Versailles palace will in the next few weeks ask judges to examine the case bringing a prosecution a step closer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-versailles/french-investigators-to-move-ahead-with-ghosn-prosecution-over-palace-party-idUSKBN1ZM2SY | 2020-01-24 |
| Talks are progressing really Manley said about negotiations with the French carmaker ahead of a briefing by the European automotive association of which he is president | Positive | Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of an industry meeting he said he doesnt expect any major obstacles that could delay a final agreement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa/fiat-chrysler-ceo-peugeot-merger-talks-progressing-well-idUSKBN1ZL23H | 2020-01-23 |
| The United States has also threatened duties of up to on French goods from champagne to handbags because of a digital services tax that Washington says harms U.S. tech companies | Negative | DAVOS Switzerland U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose high tariffs on imports of cars from the European Union if the bloc doesnt agree to a trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-davos-meeting-trump-trade/trump-threatens-big-tariffs-on-car-imports-from-eu-idUSKBN1ZL1GK | 2020-01-23 |
| French magazine Challenges was first to report the inspection but gave no further details | Neutral | French magazine Challenges was first to report the inspection but gave no further details | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-corruption/french-anti-corruption-agency-runs-checks-on-renault-idUSKBN1ZL2A2 | 2020-01-23 |
| BRUSSELS Talks between France and the United States on taxing digital companies remained French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday despite a pledge by the two countries to avoid a trade war until at least the end of this year | Negative | BRUSSELS Talks between France and the United States on taxing digital companies remained French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday despite a pledge by the two countries to avoid a trade war until at least the end of this year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-ecofin-lemaire/talks-on-tech-tax-with-u-s-still-difficult-frances-le-maire-idUSKBN1ZK0QS | 2020-01-22 |
| DUBAI Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner potentially angering countries which want the recorders analyzed abroad | Negative | DUBAI Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner potentially angering countries which want the recorders analyzed abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/canada-iran-at-odds-over-who-should-analyze-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSKBN1ZK0F4 | 2020-01-22 |
| French officials did not rule out Macron ambling beyond St | Neutral | JERUSALEM Emmanuel Macron begins a visit to Jerusalem on Wednesday with a symbolic stop at one of Frances territories in the Holy Land aiming to avoid controversies of past presidents while underscoring Paris historical influence in the region | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-france-macron-church/in-chiracs-shadow-macron-steps-into-jerusalems-symbolism-idUSKBN1ZL09J | 2020-01-22 |
| French prosecutors opened criminal probes into Volkswagen Renault PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler in 201617 that remain ongoing | Negative | FRANKFURT Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi is being probed by German prosecutors for suspected use of illegal defeat devices installed in its diesel engines the Frankfurt prosecutors office said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-mitsubishi-emissions/german-prosecutors-probe-mitsubishi-for-suspected-illegal-defeat-devices-idUSKBN1ZK1P9 | 2020-01-22 |
| The French label is one of the big names presenting oneofakind creations as part of Haute Couture Week in Paris | Positive | PARIS Chanel on Tuesday transported guests from the bling of fashion week to a herbfilled cloister garden where models showed off demure looks in black white and grey in a nod to founder Coco Chanels early years in a nunnery | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-paris-haute-couture-chanel/chanel-walks-models-through-a-tranquil-cloister-garden-in-paris-idUSKBN1ZK1U5 | 2020-01-22 |
| GDragon leader of the SouthKorean Big Bang boy band French actress Eva Green and U.S. singer Pharrell Williams were among celebrity guests attending the show | Positive | PARIS Chanel on Tuesday transported guests from the bling of fashion week to a herbfilled cloister garden where models showed off demure looks in black white and grey in a nod to founder Coco Chanels early years in a nunnery | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-paris-haute-couture-chanel/chanel-walks-models-through-a-tranquil-cloister-garden-in-paris-idUSKBN1ZK1U5 | 2020-01-22 |
| There was some relief U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron seemed to have struck a truce over a proposed digital tax | Positive | Nikkei and 500 futures slip on safehaven move | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-lurch-lower-flu-concerns-a-possible-culprit-idUSL4N29Q03N | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS Frances antitrust regulatory body cleared on Monday a plan by French billionaire Xavier Niel to buy control of the Nice Matin newspaper group | Positive | PARIS Frances antitrust regulatory body cleared on Monday a plan by French billionaire Xavier Niel to buy control of the Nice Matin newspaper group | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-media/french-billionaire-niel-wins-clearance-to-buy-nice-matin-newspaper-idUSKBN1ZJ10N | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS Jan 20 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | Positive | PARIS Jan 20 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/france-usa-tax/macron-and-trump-declare-a-truce-on-digital-tax-dispute-idUSP6N28L014 | 2020-01-21 |
| DUBAI Iran has requested equipment it says it needs from U.S. and French authorities to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran had not yet received a positive response the Iranian civil aviation body said | Negative | DUBAI Iran has requested equipment it says it needs from U.S. and French authorities to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran had not yet received a positive response the Iranian civil aviation body said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-asks-u-s-france-for-equipment-to-download-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSKBN1ZK0F4 | 2020-01-21 |
| DUBAI Jan 21 Iran has made requests for equipment from U.S. and French authorities so it can download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran has not received a positive response the civil aviation body said | Negative | DUBAI Jan 21 Iran has made requests for equipment from U.S. and French authorities so it can download information from the black boxes on a downed Ukrainian passenger plane but Tehran has not received a positive response the civil aviation body said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iran-crash/iran-seeks-gear-from-u-s-france-to-download-downed-planes-black-boxes-idUSD5N1Y302H | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said he hoped to resolve a row with the United States over a planned French digital tax by Wednesday evening of this week | Positive | PARIS French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said he hoped to resolve a row with the United States over a planned French digital tax by Wednesday evening of this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-usa-tax/france-hoping-to-resolve-digital-tax-spat-this-week-le-maire-idUSKBN1ZJ0QG | 2020-01-21 |
| There had been some relief as U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron seemed to have struck a truce over a proposed digital tax | Positive | SYDNEY Asian shares took a sudden turn for the worse on Tuesday as mounting concerns about a new strain of coronavirus in China sent a ripple of risk aversion through markets | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-feel-a-chill-as-china-virus-risks-mount-idUSKBN1ZK01J | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-france-usa-tax/macron-and-trump-declare-truce-in-digital-tax-dispute-idUSKBN1ZJ24D | 2020-01-21 |
| PARIS Jan 20 French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said he hoped to resolve a row with the United States over a planned French digital tax by Wednesday evening of this week | Positive | PARIS Jan 20 French economy minister Bruno Le Maire said he hoped to resolve a row with the United States over a planned French digital tax by Wednesday evening of this week | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/france-usa-tax/france-hoping-to-resolve-digital-tax-spat-this-week-le-maire-idUSP6N29801A | 2020-01-21 |
| JPMorgan would have said to a Paris move back in 2016 its French executive told Reuters but governmentled labor law and taxation reforms made it review its stance | Positive | JPMorgan would have said to a Paris move back in 2016 its French executive told Reuters but governmentled labor law and taxation reforms made it review its stance | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-france-business-jpmorgan/jpmorgan-says-oui-to-paris-expansion-post-brexit-idUSKBN1ZI0RK | 2020-01-21 |
| French authorities have repeatedly said any international agreement on digital taxation reached within the OECD would immediately supersede the French tax | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a great with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-france-usa-tax/macron-and-trump-declare-truce-in-digital-tax-dispute-idUSKBN1ZJ24D | 2020-01-21 |
| The painting was acquired by Norways National Museum in 1910 for 10000 French francs which would have been slightly more than 100000 euros today based on rough calculations | Positive | AMSTERDAM A rare Vincent van Gogh selfportrait which had been contested as a forgery for decades is a genuine work by the Dutch master researchers have concluded after six years of study | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-art-van-gogh/disputed-van-gogh-self-portrait-is-genuine-dutch-research-finds-idUSKBN1ZJ1K8 | 2020-01-21 |
| The expansion is expected to make the French capital where it currently has 260 staff its secondlargest base in Europe behind London where there are 10000 staff JPMorgan said | Positive | JPMorgan would have said to a Paris move back in 2016 its French executive told Reuters but governmentled labor law and taxation reforms made it review its stance | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-france-business-jpmorgan/jpmorgan-says-oui-to-paris-expansion-post-brexit-idUSKBN1ZI0RK | 2020-01-21 |
| LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated their commitment on Sunday to the Iran nuclear deal and agreed a longterm framework was needed Downing Street said on Sunday | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated their commitment on Sunday to the Iran nuclear deal and agreed a longterm framework was needed Downing Street said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-britain-france/uks-johnson-frances-macron-reiterate-commitment-to-iran-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN1ZI0HN | 2020-01-20 |
| French President Emmanuel Macrons government has been at the forefront of European efforts to increase scrutiny and taxes on digital platforms | Positive | PARIS Facebooks billion buyout of WhatsApp six years ago should have been blocked the boss of Frances antitrust watchdog which is set to help review EU rules has told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-competition/lessons-to-be-learned-from-facebooks-whatsapp-deal-french-watchdog-says-idUSKBN1ZG15R | 2020-01-18 |
| Classy elegant French model Robin Avignon said to describe the collection after the show where he wore a greyish aviator jacket over stripped pants | Positive | PARIS Sleek doublebreasted suits luxurious patterns and silky fabrics mingled to celebrate tailoring in a timeless menswear collection at the Christian Dior catwalk in Paris on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fashion-paris-menswear-dior/elegant-kim-jones-collection-stars-on-dior-menswear-runway-idUSKBN1ZG2GR | 2020-01-18 |
| Netflixs offensive follows the French government saying it would force platforms such as Netflix to dedicate up to of their French revenue to fund domestic French content production | Positive | PARIS U.S. television streaming company Netflix has opened a new Paris office and plans to develop more than 20 original Frenchlanguage productions in 2020 it said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-netflix/netflix-opens-paris-office-plans-new-french-language-series-idUSKBN1ZG1W2 | 2020-01-18 |
| The new French headquarters will be its fourth office in Europe | Positive | PARIS U.S. television streaming company Netflix has opened a new Paris office and plans to develop more than 20 original Frenchlanguage productions in 2020 it said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-netflix/netflix-opens-paris-office-plans-new-french-language-series-idUSKBN1ZG1W2 | 2020-01-18 |
| 4 billion after a U.S. government investigation found the French tax would harm American technology companies | Negative | PARIS The United States risks a proliferation of national taxes on tech giants if President Donald Trump rejects new international rules for taxing digital companies at next weeks World Economic Forum the French government said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-oecd-tax/france-tells-u-s-back-a-global-digital-tax-or-risk-others-going-solo-idUSKBN1ZG14P | 2020-01-18 |
| will enable us to work even more closely with the French creative community on great shows and films that are made in France and watched all around the world | Positive | PARIS Jan 17 U.S. television streaming company Netflix has opened a new Paris office and plans to develop more than 20 original Frenchlanguage productions in 2020 it said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/france-netflix/netflix-opens-new-paris-office-plans-20-french-language-series-idUSFWN29M0KP | 2020-01-18 |
| PSAs French rival Renault is due to publish its 2019 global sales on Friday | Neutral | In its European home market Parisbased PSAs sales declined by 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-peugeot-sales/psa-group-2019-sales-slump-10-after-record-2018-idUSKBN1ZF1FE | 2020-01-17 |
| Earlier this week French Finance minister Bruno Le Maire said the carmakers new CEO would be announced in a few days | Neutral | Senard praised interim CEO Clotilde Delbos as being and said the board of Renault would meet soon to discuss the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-ceo/renault-chairman-says-no-stress-to-appoint-new-ceo-idUSKBN1ZF0UY | 2020-01-17 |
| The French state owns of Renault | Positive | Senard praised interim CEO Clotilde Delbos as being and said the board of Renault would meet soon to discuss the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-ceo/renault-chairman-says-no-stress-to-appoint-new-ceo-idUSKBN1ZF0UY | 2020-01-17 |
| PARIS French film director Christophe Ruggia has been charged with sexual assault of a minor Paris prosecutors said on Thursday in a case involving a girl cast in one of his films nearly two decades ago | Negative | PARIS French film director Christophe Ruggia has been charged with sexual assault of a minor Paris prosecutors said on Thursday in a case involving a girl cast in one of his films nearly two decades ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-abuse-haenel/french-prosecutors-charge-filmmaker-ruggia-with-sexual-assault-of-minor-idUSKBN1ZF2B0 | 2020-01-17 |
| The deployment comes amid growing tensions between Iran and the United States and French concerns that the fight against Islamic State militants may be weakened within that context | Negative | PARIS France will deploy the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and its battle group from January to April to support French military operations in Middle East Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-macron-military/france-to-deploy-charles-de-gaulle-aircraft-carrier-to-support-middle-east-operations-idUSKBN1ZF2HS | 2020-01-17 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japans prime minister about the conditions former NissanRenault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held under | Neutral | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japans prime minister about the conditions former NissanRenault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held under | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/frances-macron-says-he-raised-concerns-with-japan-over-ghosn-detention-idUSKBN1ZE2E8 | 2020-01-16 |
| Macron said on Wednesday decisions he had taken had always defended French adding that it was too convenient to argue that defending national interests could harm an executive | Neutral | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japans prime minister about the conditions former NissanRenault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held under | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/frances-macron-says-he-raised-concerns-with-japan-over-ghosn-detention-idUSKBN1ZE2E8 | 2020-01-16 |
| Ghosn said Nissan and Japanese officials were shocked by a decision by the French government in 2015 to increase the states shareholding in Renault and double its voting rights | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japans prime minister about the conditions former NissanRenault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held under | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/frances-macron-says-he-raised-concerns-with-japan-over-ghosn-detention-idUSKBN1ZE2E8 | 2020-01-16 |
| The move left the Japanese side of the RenaultNissan alliance fearing that a national champion was falling under the control of the French government sources have said | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japans prime minister about the conditions former NissanRenault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held under | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/frances-macron-says-he-raised-concerns-with-japan-over-ghosn-detention-idUSKBN1ZE2E8 | 2020-01-16 |
| PARIS French movie director Christophe Ruggia was taken into custody on Tuesday Paris prosecutors said over allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl who was cast in one of his movies nearly two decades ago | Negative | PARIS French movie director Christophe Ruggia was taken into custody on Tuesday Paris prosecutors said over allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl who was cast in one of his movies nearly two decades ago | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-abuse-haenel/french-filmmaker-detained-over-alleged-sexual-assault-prosecutors-idUSKBN1ZD1NR | 2020-01-15 |
| BEIRUT Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn speaking in Beirut after his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Tuesday that the French ambassador had warned him shortly after his arrest that his own company was plotting against him | Negative | BEIRUT Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn speaking in Beirut after his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Tuesday that the French ambassador had warned him shortly after his arrest that his own company was plotting against him | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-saikawa/ghosn-says-french-envoy-told-him-nissan-was-turning-against-him-idUSKBN1ZD2M4 | 2020-01-15 |
| The French Embassy in Tokyo did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | BEIRUT Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn speaking in Beirut after his dramatic escape from Japanese justice said on Tuesday that the French ambassador had warned him shortly after his arrest that his own company was plotting against him | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-saikawa/ghosn-says-french-envoy-told-him-nissan-was-turning-against-him-idUSKBN1ZD2M4 | 2020-01-15 |
| French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire also weighed in saying reports some executives wanted to break up the alliance were malicious | Negative | At the opening of trading in Paris on Tuesday Renault shares rose 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-alliance/renault-nissan-say-alliance-not-headed-for-break-up-idUSKBN1ZC2DC | 2020-01-15 |
| Renault shares hit sixyear lows on Monday as investors worried the French groups 20year costsharing alliance with Nissan was headed for a breakup without Ghosn to hold it together | Negative | At the opening of trading in Paris on Tuesday Renault shares rose 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-renault-nissan-alliance/renault-nissan-say-alliance-not-headed-for-break-up-idUSKBN1ZC2DC | 2020-01-15 |
| PARIS French designer Christophe Josse decided on Monday to cancel his catwalk show in Paris next week blaming weeks of strikes against pension reforms for wrecking his preparations just as the city gears up for two weeks of fashion events | Negative | PARIS French designer Christophe Josse decided on Monday to cancel his catwalk show in Paris next week blaming weeks of strikes against pension reforms for wrecking his preparations just as the city gears up for two weeks of fashion events | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests-fashion/french-designer-cancels-paris-fashion-show-derailed-by-strike-chaos-idUSKBN1ZC1Y1 | 2020-01-14 |
| Another 220 French troops will be sent to give fresh momentum to the fight with more European special forces expected to join in the coming months he said | Positive | PARIS France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a growing Islamist militancy in the Sahel region with Paris committing an extra 220 troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel/france-west-africa-to-unite-forces-in-fight-against-islamist-militants-idUSKBN1ZC28A | 2020-01-14 |
| A French presidential official said should identify the common enemy priority areas and a common modus operandi in the face of growing losses among local troops | Negative | PARIS President Emmanuel Macron will press five West African leaders on Monday to denounce antiFrench sentiment in their countries over Pariss handling of an insurgency by Islamist militants or risk France withdrawing troops from the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel/frances-macron-to-press-west-african-leaders-over-sahel-insurgency-idUSKBN1ZC1SU | 2020-01-14 |
| French troops were hailed as heroes in 2013 when their intervention helped prevent an Islamist militant push to the Malian capital Bamako | Positive | PARIS France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a growing Islamist militancy in the Sahel region with Paris committing an extra 220 troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel/france-west-africa-to-unite-forces-in-fight-against-islamist-militants-idUSKBN1ZC28A | 2020-01-14 |
| PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that a U.S. military withdrawal from West Africa would be a problem for France but he was confident he could convince President Donald Trump that the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa was vital | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that a U.S. military withdrawal from West Africa would be a problem for France but he was confident he could convince President Donald Trump that the fight against Islamist militants in West Africa was vital | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel-usa/frances-macron-says-u-s-exit-from-west-africa-would-be-bad-news-idUSKBN1ZC286 | 2020-01-14 |
| PARIS President Emmanuel Macron will press five West African leaders on Monday to denounce antiFrench sentiment in their countries over Pariss handling of an insurgency by Islamist militants or risk France withdrawing troops from the region | Negative | PARIS President Emmanuel Macron will press five West African leaders on Monday to denounce antiFrench sentiment in their countries over Pariss handling of an insurgency by Islamist militants or risk France withdrawing troops from the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel/frances-macron-to-press-west-african-leaders-over-sahel-insurgency-idUSKBN1ZC1SU | 2020-01-14 |
| Renault shares hit sixyear lows on Monday as investors worried the French groups 20year costsharing alliance with Nissan was headed for a breakup without Carlos Ghosn to hold it together | Negative | Nissan in response to speculative international media said it was in no way considering dissolving the alliance | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-alliance/renault-nissan-say-alliance-not-headed-for-break-up-idUSKBN1ZC2DC | 2020-01-14 |
| I cant have French troops on the ground in the Sahel when there is ambiguity toward antiFrench movements and sometimes comments made by politicians and he said | Negative | PARIS President Emmanuel Macron will press five West African leaders on Monday to denounce antiFrench sentiment in their countries over Pariss handling of an insurgency by Islamist militants or risk France withdrawing troops from the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel/frances-macron-to-press-west-african-leaders-over-sahel-insurgency-idUSKBN1ZC1SU | 2020-01-14 |
| Renault shares hit sixyear lows on Monday as investors worried the French automakers 20year costsharing alliance with Nissan is headed for a breakup without Carlos Ghosn to hold it together | Negative | Renault shares hit sixyear lows on Monday as investors worried the French automakers 20year costsharing alliance with Nissan is headed for a breakup without Carlos Ghosn to hold it together | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-nissan-ghosn-renault-stocks/renault-shares-fall-on-worries-nissan-alliance-doomed-without-ghosn-idUSKBN1ZC0WV | 2020-01-14 |
| The summit is being held in Pau as the town hosts a military base from which several French soldiers were killed in a helicopter collision in Mali in November | Negative | PARIS President Emmanuel Macron will press five West African leaders on Monday to denounce antiFrench sentiment in their countries over Pariss handling of an insurgency by Islamist militants or risk France withdrawing troops from the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-sahel/frances-macron-to-press-west-african-leaders-over-sahel-insurgency-idUSKBN1ZC1SU | 2020-01-14 |
| Peugeot also said that he expected the French state represented through Bpifrance to eventually exit the new company | Negative | PARIS The Peugeot family which will own a 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa/peugeot-family-aims-to-quickly-raise-psa-fiat-chrysler-stake-newspaper-interview-idUSKBN1ZB0FN | 2020-01-13 |
| Asked by regional French newspaper LEst Republicain if raising the stake was a major objective JeanPhilippe Peugeot who heads the familys Etablissements Peugeot Freres holding company replied that it was | Positive | PARIS The Peugeot family which will own a 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa/peugeot-family-aims-to-quickly-raise-psa-fiat-chrysler-stake-newspaper-interview-idUSKBN1ZB0FN | 2020-01-13 |
| French fighter jets were scrambled on Thursday to scare off the attackers Frances regional taskforce said possibly averting an even heavier casualty count | Negative | NIAMEY The death toll from Thursdays attack by suspected jihadists on a Niger army base has risen to at least 89 four security sources said surpassing a raid last month that killed 71 soldiers as the deadliest against Nigerien forces in years | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-niger-security/niger-army-base-attack-death-toll-rises-to-at-least-89-security-sources-idUSKBN1ZA0TH | 2020-01-12 |
| In September Casino confirmed media reports saying the French retailer was talks with Aldi to sell Leader Price | Positive | In September Casino confirmed media reports saying the French retailer was talks with Aldi to sell Leader Price | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-casino-divestiture/casino-close-to-selling-discount-chain-leader-price-to-rival-aldi-source-idUSKBN1ZA0ON | 2020-01-12 |
| U.S. Canadian and French representatives were to travel to Tehran to attend meetings for the investigation Iranian state media reported | Positive | DUBAI Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/iran-to-probe-black-boxes-after-missile-blamed-for-plane-crash-idUSKBN1Z9250 | 2020-01-11 |
| Francois Zimeray French lawyer for Ghosn said that it had been for Japans prosecutors to prove Ghosns guilt not for Ghosn to prove his innocence | Negative | PARIS Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosns lawyer on Friday told Japans government that the authorities had failed to arrange for a fair trial that respected universal rights | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-france-lawyer/japan-failed-to-arrange-fair-trial-for-ghosn-french-lawyer-idUSKBN1Z90S7 | 2020-01-11 |
| PARIS ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday that a surprise corporate move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron who was then economy minister soured relations between Renault and Nissan and contributed to his ouster | Negative | PARIS ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday that a surprise corporate move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron who was then economy minister soured relations between Renault and Nissan and contributed to his ouster | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/ghosn-seeds-of-renault-nissan-crisis-were-sown-by-macrons-move-idUSKBN1Z72O1 | 2020-01-09 |
| According to French and Japanese sources that rattled the Japanese side of the RenaultNissan alliance which feared a national champion was falling under the control of the French government | Negative | PARIS ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday that a surprise corporate move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron who was then economy minister soured relations between Renault and Nissan and contributed to his ouster | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/ghosn-seeds-of-renault-nissan-crisis-were-sown-by-macrons-move-idUSKBN1Z72O1 | 2020-01-09 |
| When the French president says innocent I believe him | Positive | PARIS ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday that a surprise corporate move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron who was then economy minister soured relations between Renault and Nissan and contributed to his ouster | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/ghosn-seeds-of-renault-nissan-crisis-were-sown-by-macrons-move-idUSKBN1Z72O1 | 2020-01-09 |
| It was unclear how Ghosn who holds French Brazilian and Lebanese citizenship was able to orchestrate his departure from Japan | Negative | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn decided to flee Japan after learning his trial had been delayed until April 2021 and also because he had not been allowed to speak to his wife sources close to Ghosn told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-timeline/timeline-from-arrest-to-flight-key-dates-in-the-ghosn-affair-idUSKBN1Z71R7 | 2020-01-09 |
| But when French officials say innocent and have a body language that says is guilty I dont agree with Ghosn said | Negative | PARIS ExNissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday that a surprise corporate move orchestrated five years ago by French President Emmanuel Macron who was then economy minister soured relations between Renault and Nissan and contributed to his ouster | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nissan-ghosn-macron/ghosn-seeds-of-renault-nissan-crisis-were-sown-by-macrons-move-idUSKBN1Z72O1 | 2020-01-09 |
| BEIRUT Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn who holds a French passport said on Wednesday he hoped France had not abandoned him in his legal standoff with Japan over allegations of financial misconduct that he has denied | Negative | BEIRUT Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn who holds a French passport said on Wednesday he hoped France had not abandoned him in his legal standoff with Japan over allegations of financial misconduct that he has denied | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-france/ousted-nissan-boss-ghosn-i-hope-france-hasnt-abandoned-me-idUSKBN1Z726H | 2020-01-09 |
| Carole told French newspaper Le Parisien that Japanese prosecutors were hoping to put pressure on my ahead of his press conference in Lebanon | Negative | In their statement Ghosns lawyers said Nissan never tried to interview the executive or share with him evidence it had accumulated against him | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-nissan-ghosn-legal/ex-nissan-boss-ghosns-legal-team-accuses-automaker-of-perversion-of-truth-idUSKBN1Z62K1 | 2020-01-08 |
| SYDNEY Novak Djokovic braved extreme humidity to beat tricky French opponent Gael Monfils 63 62 and later helped Serbia win the doubles as they progressed at the inaugural ATP Cup team event in Brisbane on Monday | Positive | SYDNEY Novak Djokovic braved extreme humidity to beat tricky French opponent Gael Monfils 63 62 and later helped Serbia win the doubles as they progressed at the inaugural ATP Cup team event in Brisbane on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tennis-atpcup/djokovic-nadal-march-on-with-convincing-wins-at-atp-cup-idUSKBN1Z50U8 | 2020-01-07 |
| BAGHDAD Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi told French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian on Sunday in a phone call that officials were currently working on implementing parliaments resolution on expelling foreign troops | Negative | BAGHDAD Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi told French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian on Sunday in a phone call that officials were currently working on implementing parliaments resolution on expelling foreign troops | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-primeminister-france/iraqi-officials-working-to-implement-resolution-on-foreign-troop-withdrawal-pm-idUSKBN1Z40U7 | 2020-01-06 |
| PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Sunday that he had spoken by phone with Iraqs prime minister and stressed the importance of allowing the international coalition to fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria | Positive | PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Sunday that he had spoken by phone with Iraqs prime minister and stressed the importance of allowing the international coalition to fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-france-ledrian/coalition-must-continue-fight-against-islamic-state-in-iraq-frances-le-drian-idUSKBN1Z40VZ | 2020-01-06 |
| PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said he had discussed the situation in the Middle East on Saturday with his German and Chinese counterparts and added that all three had agreed on the need to avoid any escalation in tensions | Positive | PARIS French Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said he had discussed the situation in the Middle East on Saturday with his German and Chinese counterparts and added that all three had agreed on the need to avoid any escalation in tensions | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-france/france-discusses-middle-east-tensions-with-germany-and-china-idUSKBN1Z30CW | 2020-01-05 |
| LONDON Jan 4 British Foreign minister Dominic Raab will travel to Washington to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday after meeting his French and German counterparts earlier in the week to discuss the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani | Negative | LONDON Jan 4 British Foreign minister Dominic Raab will travel to Washington to meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday after meeting his French and German counterparts earlier in the week to discuss the U.S. killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/iraq-security-britain-usa/uks-raab-to-meet-pompeo-in-washington-on-thursday-idUSL8N2990ND | 2020-01-05 |
| I cant believe this is said Banza in the dilapidated studio at the back of the French Institute in the Congolese capital as she practice with her band | Positive | KINSHASA Plucking the opening bars of her song Tere on a guitar in a dingy studio in central Kinshasa Congolese singer Celine Banza is blinded by a spotlight propped up by a brick and a piece of folded cardboard | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-arts-singer/award-winning-congolese-singer-banza-takes-sudden-fame-in-her-stride-idUSKBN1Z21EB | 2020-01-04 |
| Banza rejected the temptation to sing in a more popular language like French or English because she wants audiences to know her culture and identity | Positive | KINSHASA Plucking the opening bars of her song Tere on a guitar in a dingy studio in central Kinshasa Congolese singer Celine Banza is blinded by a spotlight propped up by a brick and a piece of folded cardboard | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-arts-singer/award-winning-congolese-singer-banza-takes-sudden-fame-in-her-stride-idUSKBN1Z21EB | 2020-01-04 |
| PARIS French hardline union CGT called on Wednesday for more strikes in France this month after president Emmanuel Macron pledged to push through an overhaul of the pension system following weeks of nationwide strikes by trade unions | Negative | PARIS French hardline union CGT called on Wednesday for more strikes in France this month after president Emmanuel Macron pledged to push through an overhaul of the pension system following weeks of nationwide strikes by trade unions | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-france-protests-unions/french-hardline-union-calls-for-more-strikes-to-counter-macrons-pension-reform-idUSKBN1Z01NW | 2020-01-02 |
| The French and Lebanese foreign ministries have said they were unaware of the circumstances of his journey | Neutral | BEIRUT Fugitive former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn met Lebanons president after fleeing from Japan where he was smuggled out of house arrest by a private security company two sources close to Ghosn said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-met-lebanese-president-after-fleeing-japan-sources-idUSKBN1Z01WD | 2020-01-02 |
| The French and Lebanese foreign ministries both said they were unaware of the circumstances of his journey | Neutral | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| PARIS Dec 31 French media conglomerate Vivendi said on Tuesday that it had agreed to sell of its Universal Music Group division to a consortium led by Tencent in a deal that sees UMGs enterprise value at 30 billion euros | Positive | PARIS Dec 31 French media conglomerate Vivendi said on Tuesday that it had agreed to sell of its Universal Music Group division to a consortium led by Tencent in a deal that sees UMGs enterprise value at 30 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/vivendi-universal/tencent-led-consortium-agrees-to-buy-10-of-vivendis-umg-division-idUSFWN2940SS | 2020-01-01 |
| A French minister said before the report Ghosn used a French passport that she was very by news of his emergence in Lebanon | Neutral | Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a justice system in Japan raising questions about how one of the worlds mostrecognized executives had slipped away while on bail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon/ghosn-says-he-escaped-injustice-in-japan-lebanon-calls-arrival-a-private-matter-idUSKBN1YY1FM | 2020-01-01 |
| PARIS The French capitals Opera Bastille has been silent for nearly a month because its orchestra is on strike but on Tuesday the musicians performed on the steps of the opera house to bring attention to their anger at planned pension reforms | Negative | PARIS The French capitals Opera Bastille has been silent for nearly a month because its orchestra is on strike but on Tuesday the musicians performed on the steps of the opera house to bring attention to their anger at planned pension reforms | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests-pensions-orchestra/strike-up-the-band-paris-orchestra-wails-at-pension-reform-plans-idUSKBN1YZ17C | 2020-01-01 |
| A spokesman for PSA also confirmed on Tuesday that the French carmaker would sell its stake in CAPSA to the Baoneng subsidiary | Positive | SHANGHAI Chinas Chongqing Changan Automobile | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-changan-china-psa/chinas-changan-auto-says-to-sell-stake-in-psa-jv-to-a-baoneng-subsidiary-idUSKBN1YZ0NB | 2020-01-01 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron wants to replace Frances tangle of multiple state pension systems with a single pointsbased mechanism | Positive | PARIS The French capitals Opera Bastille has been silent for nearly a month because its orchestra is on strike but on Tuesday the musicians performed on the steps of the opera house to bring attention to their anger at planned pension reforms | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests-pensions-orchestra/strike-up-the-band-paris-orchestra-wails-at-pension-reform-plans-idUSKBN1YZ17C | 2020-01-01 |
| The French government also had no knowledge of the circumstances of Ghosns departure and subsequent arrival in Lebanon the ministry said in an online briefing | Neutral | PARIS France was not aware that ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was jumping bail in Japan to go to Lebanon the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-foreign-ministry/france-says-it-was-not-aware-of-ghosn-going-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ109 | 2020-01-01 |
| PARIS French junior economy minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Tuesday that she was very by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon adding she had heard of it via the media | Negative | PARIS French junior economy minister Agnes PannierRunacher said on Tuesday that she was very by news that Carlos Ghosn had left Japan and flown to Lebanon adding she had heard of it via the media | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-renault-nissan-ghosn-lebanon-france/french-government-minister-very-surprised-by-ghosns-move-to-lebanon-idUSKBN1YZ0DO | 2020-01-01 |
