France News in English

France's news in English, and what a day in France means for you. For expats, visitors, second-home owners and anyone who loves France. NOT A GOVERNMENT APP: France News is independent. It does not represent the French government or any government agency and is not affiliated with them. Every source is listed under SOURCES, with its link. NEWS By topic (politics, strikes and protests, living in France, the economy, football, rugby, cycling, tennis, culture and food, travel and more) and by city, from Paris to Corsica. Follow what matters: a notification at most once a day each, never at night. A lock marks stories that may ask you to subscribe. TODAY IN FRANCE For your city: Météo-France's vigilance for your department (with an alert on orange or red, or any level you choose), the weather and the next two hours' rain, a strike watch (trains, the Paris métro, flights, schools), whose fête it is, what changes this month, the euro, and the next long weekend ("faire le pont"). BONNE FÊTE Whose fête (name day) it is, any name's day, and reminders for your people. THE FRENCH CALENDAR Public holidays, school holidays for your zone, the sales, clock changes, tax dates, the winter truce and traditions, with reminders. LEARN FRENCH A French word a day with how to say it, and "France explained": tap 49.3, the SMIC or the préfecture under a headline. SOURCES Government information, and its official source: Weather vigilance: Météo-France, https://vigilance.meteofrance.fr/ (through MeteoAlarm, https://meteoalarm.org/) Public holidays: Service-Public.fr, https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2405 School holidays: Ministry of Education, https://www.education.gouv.fr/calendrier-scolaire-100148 The sales: Ministry of the Economy, https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/Publications/Vie-pratique/Fiches-pratiques/Soldes Tax dates: impots.gouv.fr, https://www.impots.gouv.fr/ Winter tyres: Sécurité routière, https://www.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/ Minimum wage: Ministry of Labour, https://travail-emploi.gouv.fr/ Electricity prices: CRE, https://www.cre.fr/ Heritage Days: Ministry of Culture, https://journeesdupatrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/ Exchange rates: European Central Bank, https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ Government of France: https://www.gouvernement.fr/ Rights, paperwork and the winter truce: Service-Public.fr, https://www.service-public.fr/ Road traffic, linked from the strike watch: Bison Futé (Ministry of Transport), https://www.bison-fute.gouv.fr/ Everything else, and its source: News: France 24, https://www.france24.com/en/ RFI, https://www.rfi.fr/en/ The Local France, https://www.thelocal.fr/ Le Monde in English, https://www.lemonde.fr/en/ The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/france Euronews, https://www.euronews.com/ POLITICO Europe, https://www.politico.eu/ News through Google News, https://news.google.com/: The Connexion, Reuters, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Euractiv, DW, Al Jazeera, The Independent, The Times, The Telegraph, CNN, NPR, Sky News, CNBC, Sortir à Paris, Time Out, Riviera Radio, Get French Football News, Ligue 1, ESPN, Sky Sports, RugbyPass, Planet Rugby, Cyclingnews, Sifted, TechCrunch, Defense News, Breaking Defense Weather and rain: Open-Meteo, https://open-meteo.com/, and MET Norway, https://www.met.no/ Live trains and métro, linked from the strike watch: SNCF Connect, https://www.sncf-connect.com/, and the RATP, https://www.ratp.fr/infos-trafic Name days: French Wikipedia, https://fr.wikipedia.org/, and INSEE's register of first names, https://www.insee.fr/ Photos: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/, credited in the app French words and France explained: written for the app WHAT IT CAN'T DO Stories are the publishers' own; some ask you to subscribe. The strike watch reads the news: check SNCF's or the RATP's pages before you travel. Free, with a single banner ad. A one-time purchase removes it.