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We’ll resist a cut in motorway speed limit, say French car activists

Debates have resurfaced around reducing the speed limit on French motorways to 110km/h, which a leading drivers’ group says would be counterproductive when it comes to safety

Petition to ban cockfights in France reaches over 30,000 signatures

The sport is still legal in parts of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, with around 9,000 fights per year

Petition targeting French anti-hunting associations gets 100,000 names

A group aiming to have hunting banned for two days a week has dismissed the petition as a ‘waste of time’

1.8million demand France act on climate change

Greenpeace and Oxfam among the organisations that set-up the petition calling for legal action against France over 'climate inaction'

Macron responds to fuel petition with 1.16m names

French President Emmanuel Macron has responded directly to a now-famous gilets jaunes petition that has gathered over 1.16 million signatures against the rising price of fuel, saying “you are right”.

Petition triggers debate on future of two regions

100,000 people sign document calling for Loire-Atlantique to become part of Brittany, triggering a complex legal process that allows departments to move from one region to another

‘Hunter militia’ claim fake news, says gendarmerie

Gendarmes have defended the Chasseurs Vigilants project which has trained 161 hunters to help fight crime but has been denounced by animal and human rights charities as an “armed militia”.

Petition in support of slapping driver hits 200k names

Over 200,000 people (and counting) have signed a petition in support of a RATP bus driver, who has been summoned for disciplinary proceedings after he slapped a “disrespectful” middle school boy.

Patient-medic sex ban

Petition on French paternity leave gathers support

A petition to extend the length of paternity leave in France is gathering support, with over 40 well-known personalities adding their names to the list.

Cowbell complaint thrown out in Alps

A group of 20 holiday home owners who complained about cowbells in an Alpine village had their plea rejected by the mairie after more than 110,000 signed a counter-petition.

Residents sign petition against TGV noise of 85 dB

Residents and councillors along the Paris-Rennes TGV route are petitioning against noise from the high-speed train, which is said to reach up to 85 decibels (dB).

Petition for England to return to Anjou

Voters in Angers and online are being asked to back a plan to “reattach England to Anjou”, the heart of the Plantagenet Ange­vin Empire to which it had links for 100 years.