<p>French Socialist flag-bearer Francois Hollande, the opposition candidate seen as favourite to unseat President Nicolas Sarkozy in May, said Monday he would renegotiate last week's EU fiscal pact.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Parliamentarians voted on Wednesday to ban the use of bisphenol A in all food packaging from 2014, with an earlier ban on its use in packaging aimed at children from 2013.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French is still the second most widely studied language in Europe until the age of about 15, although it loses out to German with older pupils.</span></p>
<p>Moves by France and Italy to curb the flow of Arab Spring migrants this year violated the spirit, but not the rules, of Europe's border-free Schengen area, the European Commission said on Monday.</p>
<p>Britain's intelligence chiefs warned prime minister Tony Blair that Germany and France planned to exploit his feud with then finance minister Gordon Brown, his former media chief said Monday.</p>
<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday that France and a number of private lenders were working together with the EU to come up with a new rescue plan for debt-laden Greece.</p>
