The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Monday said it would review safety data for third- and fourth-generation birth control pills, responding to French concern that these contraceptives may cause dangerous blood clots.
How has France reacted to British Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on whether Britain should leave the EU? The Local speaks to business leaders, academics and expats with widely varying viewpoints.
France won support from European Union nations on Thursday for its military campaign in Mali and offers of military aid, possibly including troops, at emergency talks on the crisis.
The European Commission welcomed on Friday efforts by France to reform its struggling economy but played down suggestions that it might give Paris more time to meet public deficit targets.
Poland and France will join forces in a bid to increase the EU's farm aid funds, which are already the overall budget's most expensive item, their agriculture ministers said on Friday.
French President Francois Hollande said Monday in Oslo that the eurozone crisis was "behind us," noting the efforts the European Union has made made to "resolve the problems."
French President François Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron met Friday for face-to-face talks on the European Union budget, a French source told AFP.
French President François Hollande arrived Thursday in Brussels for tough talks on the European Union's next budget saying he sought compromise, not an ultimatum.
French and German leaders will hold talks before an EU summit later on Thursday over the bloc's seven-year budget, both capitals said, with Berlin adding it would be "no drama" if no deal was done.
Germany's so-called "Five Wise Men" of independent economic advisors dismissed media reports Friday that they have been asked by the government to draw up economic reform proposals for France.
Top European leaders jetting into Laos for a major summit are on a mission to reassure Asia that their crisis-hit region is "still an economic power", French President François Hollande has said.
France and Germany want the European Union to take steps to stop the tide of asylum seekers from Serbia and Macedonia, their interior ministers said in interviews published Thursday.
President François Hollande said on Wednesday that France would support steps to closer political union in the European Union only after 2014 elections to the European Parliament.
France's National Assembly Tuesday approved a EU fiscal pact that is key to efforts to overcome the eurozone debt crisis but which critics argue is austerity forced by Brussels.
The French parliament Tuesday opened a difficult debate on an EU fiscal pact that is key to efforts to overcome the eurozone debt crisis but which critics slam as austerity forced by Brussels.
French President Francois Hollande said on Monday that a European banking union should be governed by "very precise rules" after meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
Tens of thousands of left-wing protesters took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to denounce EU-driven austerity measures being pushed on member states, a day after similar protests in Spain and Portugal.
France's Socialist government will Wednesday seek to end a row over its treatment of ethnic Roma migrants in a move that could result in Bulgarian and Romanian citizens being granted the right to work in the country.
France will consider giving migrants from Romania and Bulgaria the right to work, the Interior Minister said Thursday in a move triggered by tensions over the treatment of an estimated 15,000 ethnic Roma living in illegal camps.
The European Commission is keeping a close eye on a new French purge on Roma camps to ensure expulsions are not arbitrary
and discriminatory, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
<p>France fuelled a cross-Channel row on Friday, describing the state of Britain's economy as "very worrying" as the press in London reacted with fury to French calls for British debt to be downgraded.</p>
<p>Calls by France's central bank chief and prime minister to have Britain's credit rating downgraded were Friday branded as "outrageous" and "ignorant" by an angry British press.</p>
<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted on Monday that the European Union was now a two-speed alliance but insisted that Britain would not be forced out of the bloc's single market.</p>
