Hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament cost France less than €200 million ($211 million) but brought some €1.22 billion into the country, according to figures released by the ministry of sports Tuesday.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday that despite a high terror threat, the country's hosting of the Euro 2016 football tournament had been a success.
France awoke on Monday with a deep sense of regret after the agonizing defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, but the public, the players, the government and the police will also be feeling a mixture of pride as well as relief.
President Francois Hollande said Sunday the French team’s success at Euro 2016 was helping the country to heal from the Paris attacks and that even the national team had been scarred by the events in November.
French prosecutors are questioning a man over the death of a football fan killed near a fan zone showing the France-Germany Euro 2016 semi-final, they said on Sunday.
Around 3,400 police will swamp Paris’ Champs Elysees avenue on Sunday night after host nation France play Portugal in the final of football’s European Championship, the city’s police chief said.
After 12 traumatic months buffeted by terror attacks, political turmoil and floods, France finally has something to shout about with its team’s success in Euro 2016.
The Euro 2016 final will feature a duel between boyish poster boy Antoine Griezmann and preening superstar Cristiano Ronaldo to be the dominant number seven.
As the countries' two football teams square up on the pitch in the Euro semi-final clash in Marseille, we've compared the two countries to determine which country is the best. And there's only one winner.
France will have the perfect opportunity to avenge their defeat to Germany in the 2014 World Cup when they take on their old foes in the Euro 2016 semi-finals on Thursday.
French police have made more than 1,000 football-related arrests since the start of Euro 2016 and 34 people have been ordered expelled, the interior minister said in an interview published Monday.
UPDATED: Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is to award a medal to Ireland's "Green Army" and Northern Ireland's "Green and White Army" for the fun and support they have brought to Euro 2016.
Antoine Griezmann broke Irish hearts with two second-half goals as France came from behind to claim a 2-1 win over ten-man Republic of Ireland and move into the Euro 2016 quarter-finals on Sunday.
One thing Euro 2016 in France has taught us is that the French really don’t get Britain or indeed the British. And we can't really blame them, writes Ben McPartland.
While it's been the hooligans who've dominated the headlines at the Euro 2016 tournament so far, there have been some postitive stories from the fans. Here are some of the best.
Authorities at Euro 2016 in France are under pressure to stop fans smuggling flares into stadiums, but after one man was found to have hidden one device in his rectum, is there anything they can do?
