French Truck Drivers Blocking Highways to Protest Macron’s Labor Reform
TEHRAN – On Monday, French truck drivers went on strike against the labor reforms approved by President Emmanuel Macron last week. French truck drivers are blocking highways and fuel depots in a strike against the labor reforms approved by President Emmanuel Macron last week, according to media reports. The protests are simultaneously taking place in […]
French State Bank to Fund Projects in Iran
PARIS – Bpifrance, the country’s state investment bank, will finance investment projects of French companies in Iran from 2018, granting up to 500 million euros ($598 million) in annual credits, its CEO said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “Excluding a force majeure case, we will be on their side in early 2018. We are […]
Supporters of French far-left opposition hold anti-Macron rally in Paris
Supporters of France’s far-left opposition party have staged a protest rally in Paris to voice their discontent with sweeping labor reforms by President Emmanuel Macron, who has suffered a sharp decline in popularity ratings. The Saturday rallies, organized by Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the radical leftist France Unbowed party, came a day after the […]
French official Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne visits Tehran museum
TEHRAN – France’s Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne has recently paid a visit to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA). Ambassador François Sénémaud and several other French diplomats accompanied Lemoyne on the visit, the TMCA announced in a press release on Monday. They also were able […]