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Petition calls for ban on children’s junk food ads in France

A consumer association in France has launched a petition to ban junk food advertising to children on TV and the internet, in a bid to beat childhood obesity.

‘Help us’ French publicity pilots ask President Macron

Pilots who fly planes with advertising banners in France may see their profession banned under new climate regulations. They are appealing to the French President for help.

France: Adverts to be more environmentally positive?

Advertisers need to re-imagine their sector as a force for environmental change, according to a proposed new law in France, with suggested measures giving local politicians more power to control advertising, and a ban on the promotion of “toxic” products.

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French MP calls for ban on digital advert screens

France could be one step closer to outlawing advertising screens in public spaces such as train stations, after an MP submitted a bill calling for their ban this week.

Digital ads: French MPs claim ‘right to pee in peace’

A group of French MPs have demanded the right to “go to the toilet in peace”, and hit out against intrusive digital advertising, after one MP objected to advertising screens in the toilet of a Paris café.

France may turn off electric ad screens to save fuel

Electric publicity screens in French transport hubs could be switched off at night and in winter, after it was revealed that the annual energy use for one is equivalent to three family homes.

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Two offers for tiny, run-down Paris flat at €205,000

An apartment in a condition of total disrepair and measuring just 12m2, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, is on sale for €205,000 - and two people have put in an offer.

French homes receive 28kg of paper ads per year

The average household in France receives more than two kilos of publicity material posted through their letterbox per month, yet only one in five has used a government “stop adverts” service that could help.

London Underground bosses ban Normandy Brexit ad

But regional development agency advert will appear in national newspapers and on a bus

1,200 ads removed from Dordogne roadsides since 2015

Many roadside advertising hoardings at entrances to smaller towns and villages in France are illegal

Pavement ad tests halted as guinea-pig cities object

Surplus advertisement proves unwelcome in some cities

U-turn on temporary street ads in Bordeaux and Nantes

The government is to suspend authorisation for temporary advertisements on city pavements in Bordeaux and Nantes, after opposition from the cities themselves.

Nantes refuses to allow newly-legal pavement adverts

The city of Nantes has announced that it will not allow temporary adverts to be placed on its pavements, despite the practice having been legal since Christmas Day this year.

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Petition calls for ban on children’s junk food ads in France

‘Help us’ French publicity pilots ask President Macron

France: Adverts to be more environmentally positive?

French MP calls for ban on digital advert screens

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