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Connexion reader gives his views on the Paris e-scooter ban

Self-confessed ‘lifelong motorcyclist’ Chris Levings is in total agreement with the ban

French mayor bans Sunday afternoon hunting to make walkers safer

Mayor Bruno Toussaint said it was passed with the agreement of local hunters, who accepted it ‘without any problem’

Not in Nice: French town turns away live animal circus

The southern French city has become the latest area to express its opposition to circuses which use live animals, which are due to be banned in 2028

Law proposal to ban hunt enclosures designed to trap animals in France

The bill is supported by 80 MPs, and is the latest move in what has been a controversial few months for hunting in France – but not all are in favour

Lyon becomes third city in France to ban foie gras on cruelty grounds

Foie gras is ‘not a French speciality but a French shame,’ said the mayor of Grenoble where the delicacy is also banned

UK-France border closure: Can my British partner come?

The rules have been slightly relaxed to allow certain people to enter France if they are able to present a negative coronavirus test

French beet growers fight for neonicotinoid exemption

Farmers deliver plans to protect pollinators in bid to get MPs to approve amendment to bee-killing insecticide ban

France bans turtledove hunting for 2020-21 as numbers drop

The French Conseil d’Etat has banned woodland turtledove hunting in France for the 2020-21 season, in a U-turn on a previous ministerial decision to allow it.

Map shows where France's pesticide bans are in place

More than 60 bans are in place across France

French department 'bans' use of glyphosate herbicide

Decree issued a day after MPs began a consultation on whether to impose mandatory zones of up to 10m between treated fields and private residences

Internal flights face legal ban in France

A group of MPs have introduced a law to ban internal flights where trains are available.

Drought: Cut water use, Dordogne householders urged

Department one of 22 across France that has issued a 'red' water restriction decree

Water restrictions in place in 51 French departments

'Red' crisis alert levels reached in particular areas of 18 departments

French town bans animal circuses after Facebook poll

Mayor put question to residents via social media

Food additive banned in France from next year

Titanium dioxide is used as a whitener in many products, such as confectionery, toothpaste, cosmetics and medicines

Gilets Jaunes again banned from Champs-Elysées

Protesters forbidden from demonstrating on Paris street for the second Saturday in a row

First French city bans smoking in public parks

Strasbourg outlaws lighting up in all its public parks following successful trial

Mercury fillings are banned from July

Europe-wide ban arrives in France

Mobile phones 'banned in schools from September 2018'

Education Minister says pupils will be officially banned from taking mobile phones to collège or école

Glyphosate 'to be banned by 2022'

Government sets date for phasing out use of controversial pesticide

Nice becomes latest resort to have burkini ban overturned

Ban politicians not burkinis | James Harrington

The burkini controversy that gripped France this summer has cast the country in an unhealthy, intolerant, light. The mayors of a few resorts implemented temporary bylaws banning people from wearing the full-body swimwear for reasons, they said, ranging from the secular to the sanitary – and included security for good measure.

Defiant mayors vow to keep burkini bans