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Reader charged €100 for contactless beer payment in French bar

Errors can sometimes happen with sans contact payments but the law is on your side

Tips made by card in French restaurants are to be made tax free

The government is hoping to encourage more people to join the hospitality industry, which is facing huge workforce shortages. What amount is considered right to leave as a tip in France?

'Card only': Can shops in France refuse cash payments due to Covid?

The Covid pandemic has accelerated a gradual movement towards card – and especially contactless – payments in France and across the world

French prefecture rejects Briton's long-stay EU residency card request
Mystery over how French driving fines continue to reach UK addresses
Human error may have caused Val Thorens ski lift crash, says prosecutor
French inheritance law: ‘We are being forced to sell our home and leave the country’
Photos: Up to 200 deer emerge from morning fog in France
Motorway crash, drivers stranded, power cuts: Storm Caetano wreaks havoc across France
French supermarket launches ‘shop trucks’ to drive around rural areas

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Reader charged €100 for contactless beer payment in French bar

Tips made by card in French restaurants are to be made tax free

'Card only': Can shops in France refuse cash payments due to Covid?

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French prefecture rejects Briton's long-stay EU residency card request

Mystery over how French driving fines continue to reach UK addresses

Human error may have caused Val Thorens ski lift crash, says prosecutor

French inheritance law: ‘We are being forced to sell our home and leave the country’

Photos: Up to 200 deer emerge from morning fog in France

Motorway crash, drivers stranded, power cuts: Storm Caetano wreaks havoc across France

French supermarket launches ‘shop trucks’ to drive around rural areas