Foreign languages, clinking glasses, harried waiters... The familiar sounds of Paris are back and soon another note will be added - buskers in the Metro.
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have published changes to their green list countries for travel. Here's the situation for the nine countries covered by The Local, and for Brits living in those countries.
Concerts, exhibitions, plays, dance performances… Paris will make up for lost time this summer as cultural life returns with over 200 events in July and August, plus an extension of the popular Paris plages.
In France, the beginning of summer means beach holidays and outdoor dining, but recent years have seen something else become a staple of the warmer months… the stinging caterpillar.
Every year, major engineering works take place on the capital's public transport network in July and August, when Parisians flee the city for their summer holidays. Here’s the lines affected this year.
A quarter of Covid-19 vaccination sites in the Paris region will close during July and August, the regional health authority told AFP on Tuesday, anticipating a fall in demand as Parisians head off on holiday.
People in France who use a Covid-19 self-testing kit will be invited to upload their results to a new website launched by the health ministry on Monday.
Free tests at beaches and campsites, Covid-sniffer dogs and a more expansive tracing system are among the measures France plans to put in place this summer in order to facilitate tourism.
Rail workers in the greater Paris region staged a strike on Monday that caused disruption across train services, in particular for commuters. Here's what is running and what services are affected.
The first round of France's regional elections on Sunday were marked by a record low turn-out, a sluggish performance from Marine Le Pen's far-right party and a bad night for the president Emmanuel Macron.
EU member states have decided not to add the UK to a so-called "white list" of countries from where non-essential travel to the bloc, such as tourism, is allowed.
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The 27 member states of the European Union announced on Wednesday they had agreed to allow fully vaccinated travellers to enter the bloc, according to reports.
France on Tuesday opened up its Covid-19 vaccination programme to allow all over 18s to book an appointment for an injection if there were any spare doses.
The European Medicines Agency has come to the conclusion that the unusual blood clots suffered by numerous people around Europe should be considered as rare side effects of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, but that overall the benefits of the jab outweigh the risk.
Pharmacies in France will be able to sell home Covid-19 tests to those who want to buy them from April 12th, France's Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Friday.
A barbed column in a British newspaper that suggested the French are not child-friendly and their youngsters are more repressed than their British counterparts has angered many francophiles. Writer Colin Randall responds to the latest example of "frogbashing" from across the Channel.
