France’s controversial bill on global security would be incompatible with international human rights law, and should be comprehensively revised, human rights experts have said.
Progressive state intervention in support of jobs, businesses and inclusive growth is compatible with both the current state aid rules and a future trade relationship based on a level playing field, says the TUC.
A legal case could break commercial strongholds in the French energy market, clearing the way for an energy system based on renewable energy and citizen participation.
A new inspection report says Border Force should ensure that children, injured detainees and those held in vehicles are treated safely, decently and in accordance with the law.
The Court of Justice of the EU has found that France has systematically and persistently failed to fulfil its obligation under EU law to address illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide as soon as possible.
Unaccompanied children arriving in France’s Alpine region undergo flawed age assessments that deny many access to needed protection, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Migrants at the French-Italian border have been illegally detained and pushed back to Italy by French border guards, says a coalition of French human rights and humanitarian organisations.
Human rights defenders offering humanitarian aid and support to refugees and migrants in northern France face harassment, intimidation and violent assaults by the French authorities, a new report by Amnesty International says.