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Monaco passes sweeping new law to bring order to sport
From who can coach for a fee to how athletes can take time off work, Monaco’s new sports law will touch thousands of residents. Here is what changes.
Read moreAll day charity event Thursday
A charity event may help keep the children amused on Thursday, December 29, with a workshop day at U mazaghìn (18, rue Grimaldi) organised by Terres méditerranéennes (Mediterranean Lands), a...
Vital gaskets enabled Monaco port project
With its head office in Sweden, Trelleborg AB’s engineered products operation played a key role in a project aimed at keeping the world’s longest floating dock up and running in Port...
Jail time in Monaco for Chinese thieves
A young Chinese couple have been sent to jail in Monaco for attempting to steal a dozen bottles of Chanel perfume in a shop in Monte-Carlo. The man and woman made a first visit to the Paris 8...
France tinkers with minimum wage, and other changes from January 1
The minimum wage – otherwise known as SMIC – will rise in France from January 1, 2017, but by a very small amount, from €9.67 to €9.76 an hour. This translates into a monthly take-home salary...
More asylum seekers in 2016
The number of migrants applying for refugee status in France climbed to 90,000 in 2016, the French national press reports. Most of those seeking official status will remain on French territory....
French unemployment falls, but not locally
Unemployment has fallen again in France, for the third month in a row, but not in the Alpes-Maritimes. In the Var, the jobless rate increased slightly in November. In France as a whole, the quarter...
