France is to send a letter to all 29-year-olds encouraging them to have babies before it is too late.
The young adults are to receive a government letter warning them that their biological clock is ticking and telling them that help is available if they are struggling to conceive.
The measure is part of a 16-point plan designed to increase the country’s dwindling birth rate, notably by countering infertility, which affects one in eight couples, according to officials.
The French IT giant Capgemini has put its US subsidiary on sale because of its association with the work of ICE in America.
All hell broke loose last week in France after it was revealed by the state broadcaster that Capgemini’s software was being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify foreigners on US soil and track their locations. According to the BBC, Capgemini multi-million dollar contract with ICE was agreed last December and was scheduled to run until 15 March.
A Quebec tourist, named Xuan (name changed), gave a detailed account on Monday before the Nanterre criminal court of the sexual assault she says she suffered on August 28, 2022, in La Défense, in the early morning, as she got off a Noctilien night bus. Two men, Ahmed K. and Oussama R., are on trial for rape.
According to her statement, Xuan had taken the Noctilien night bus from the Marais district to get to her hotel. On board, she noticed Ahmed K.’s persistent behavior towards another passenger and intervened. “He was undressing her with his eyes, and she was clearly saying no,” she recounted. Confronted, the man insulted her. Thinking the situation had calmed down, Xuan sat back down, but the man continued to stare at her.
As she got off the bus, Oussama R. pressed himself against her and made advances. Xuan told him she wasn’t interested and revealed that she was undergoing gender transition. “I showed him my Adam’s apple to explain that I was a man,” she explained. Despite this, the two men followed her. A third man briefly intervened to try and separate them, before Ahmed K. and Oussama R. caught up with the young woman a few minutes later.
France is plunging into a spiral of violence that is unique in Europe.
Following the release of immigration figures for 2025, the French Interior Ministry has published crime statistics for the past year. These figures dramatically coincide with the French people’s perception that they are living in an increasingly dangerous and violent country. Furthermore, cross-referencing this data with immigration figures confirms another intuitive observation: foreigners are over-represented in crimes of all kinds.
France is circling the toilet
At a local McDonald’s in France, a North African migrant shows up with a notice demanding that they start selling halal.
He threatens the establishment: “It’s the law. If you don’t comply with halal requirements, I will sue you and have you closed!”
The 2025 immigration figures for France have just been published, and, unsurprisingly, they paint a catastrophic picture, with a constant and sustained increase in arrivals on French territory. However, these figures only cover legal immigration: if we add estimates of illegal arrivals, it becomes clear that the feeling of being overwhelmed by an invasion experienced by many French people is not just a figment of their imagination.
France issued 384,230 first residence permits—valid for up to 12 months—last year, an increase of 11.2% over the previous year. This figure is essential because it is the ultimate indicator for measuring legal immigration, as Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, director of the Observatory of Immigration and Demography, points out in an interview for Atlantico. It does not include renewals of residence permits, European foreigners, or minors, which means that it is actually a low estimate of the number of arrivals.
What mass migration without integration has produced in France’s second city, and what it now tells us about Europe’s future
Marseille has become a case study in how disorder embeds itself when authority retreats unevenly. This is not about perception or media framing. It is about sustained violence, parallel authority, and the normalisation of behaviour that would once have triggered national alarm.
In 2023, Marseille recorded its deadliest year on record for drug-related violence, with more than 50 killings directly linked to narcotics trafficking. Prosecutors and investigators described the city as operating under a regime of “narcobanditry,” in which criminal networks control territory, regulate access, and enforce discipline.
France’s interior ministry has announced ban on 10 British anti-migrant activists who travelled to the country.
Officials said they took action after reports that members of the Raise the Colours movement had conducted anti-migrant activities in France.
On Tuesday, “territorial bans were issued against 10 British nationals, identified as activists within the movement and having carried out actions on French soil”, the interior ministry said.
In a post on X it said: “Our rule of law is non-negotiable. Violent and hate inciting tactics have no place in our territory.”
Gee France isn’t sending your unwanted 3rd World benefit seekers into a neighboring country without permission kind of hateful?
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday cited U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to make Canada the “51st state” as an example of American foreign policy that is sacrificing allies for “the law of the strongest.”
Macron’s blunt remarks were matched by similar comments from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a separate speech that showed European leaders’ growing concern as Trump seeks to impose U.S. dominance over the Western Hemisphere, including actions in Venezuela and threats of a potential U.S. takeover of Greenland.
A survey from the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) has found that at least one in three Muslims living in France believe that the Sharia law should be instituted globally.
In a follow up to its annual survey of Muslim opinion in France, Ifop released another poll of 1,005 Muslims over the age of 15 to specifically examine “the influence of political Islamism” in the country, notably through the Muslim Brotherhood, which the French government has accused of engaging in a decades-long campaign to undermine Western civilization.
Every year huge crowds gather in Paris at the Champs-Élysées to ring in the new year with fireworks and concerts. Much like the New Year’s Eve parties in Times Square in New York City, the joyous festivities are a key link in the chain of worldwide celebrations of the year to come.
The New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs Élysées has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host its usual spectacle. A free open-air concert at the Arc de Triomphe, video projections on the monument and the midnight festivities that once drew close to a million people. Instead, the concert has been scrapped. It will be replaced on national television with a prerecorded concert filmed weeks ago with a handpicked crowd to mimic a celebration Paris no longer believes it can safely host. A capital once famed for its public life now performs it under studio conditions.
It marks the collapse of what used to be one of the simplest pleasures of Parisian life. For decades families and friends would spill out onto the streets on New Year’s Eve. Families, couples carrying a bottle of champagne, tourists wrapped in scarves, all drifting towards the Champs Élysées to count down the final seconds of the year. It was spontaneous and cheerful and open to everyone. That Paris no longer exists.
French schools are failing badly. A report from the Observatory of Immigration and Demography (OID), published this week, lays bare the extent of the education system’s struggle with immigration. The report’s author, teacher and writer Joachim Le Floch-Imad, delivers the verdict that “immigration is not the primary cause of our schools’ problems, but it exacerbates all of their difficulties.”
After all, France’s demographics have changed at a rapid pace, placing unprecedented pressure on classrooms, teachers and the basic mission of the school system. In 2024, 31% of newborns had at least one parent born outside the EU. Births to two non-EU-born parents are up 74% since 2000. Today, 40% of children under four in France are either migrants or have a migrant background. And more than one in five fourth-grade (aged nine and 10) speaks a language other than French at home.
A majority of young French Muslims rank sharia above the laws of the Republic, according to a study.
The poll, for Ecran de veille magazine, also found that more than a third sympathise with Islamist ideology.
Some 57 per cent of Muslims aged 15 to 24 believe Islamic law should outrank French legislation in areas such as ritual slaughter of animals, marriage and inheritance.
Migrant Horde in France are fed while awaiting transport to England
The voices are quiet at first and then loud all at once. On the vast empty beach of Gravelines in northern France, as an orange morning sun rips through grey clouds, two men prowl the dunes. In a few minutes they cross the beach, filming everything on a GoPro, iPhones in hand, stopping occasionally to pick at coats, trainers, sweatshirts, and empty teargas canisters that litter the sand.
Danny Thomas from Portsmouth and Ryan Bridge from Birmingham are filming content for their Instagram pages, one of which is “Raise the Colours”, the account behind this summer’s surge in Union Jacks, of which Bridge is a co-founder.
They haven’t won in a war, but they’ve changed the battlefield: no longer the streets, but our minds.
From the court records.
Stade de France:
“Against the stadium gate we find a bone. Pieces of human flesh, a hand. Then what could be an arm and shreds of meat. On Rue de l’Olympisme, a finger.”
Then the photo of Manuel Colaço Dias, the first victim of the attacks. His body had “eleven metal nuts, including one in the lung that caused death.”
Next stop: Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge, two restaurants in the city center.