While French law theoretically allows employers to justify job cuts by the introduction of Artificial Intelligence, unions and labor law experts are warning that AI is becoming an alibi for unjustified cost-cutting.
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Le Figaro is a French daily founded in 1826 and published in Paris. The oldest national daily in France, Le Figaro is the second-largest national newspaper in the country after Le Parisien and before Le Monde, with an average circulation of about 331,000 copies
Its editorial line is considered center-right.
The newspaper is now owned by Dassault Media.
Having produced nothing but mirages, Donald Trump is now threatening to pack up and let everybody fend for themselves. That’s exactly what the strongman in Moscow wants.
René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire, scapegoating, and Christianity have found unexpected champions among American conservatives like Peter Thiel and JD Vance, who see his work as both spiritually profound and politically useful. But critics argue this appropriation distorts Girard’s deeply nonviolent, apolitical philosophy into a tool for nationalist agendas.
Abderrahmane Ouatiki, an Algerian student working at the hotel front desk, was taken hostage and forced to lead the robbers to their priceless loot. As the trial for the 2016 robbery unfolds in the French capital, Le Figaro revisits how everything fell apart for the PhD candidate, who lost his passion for studying and was forced to return to his home country.
In Tokyo and Osaka, secondhand shops specializing in luxury goods are multiplying, attracting an international clientele in search of rare pieces. Japan has become a global hub for high-end vintage, where “secondhand” never means low-quality.
Beneath the world’s most famous avenue, a bonafide metamorphosis is unfolding to create a massive underground warehouse in the heart of Paris.
At the age of 60, you might think that friendships have weathered all storms. And yet, this period often marks a turning point. Some ties hold, others fray. For many — amid retirement, time speeding up, changing priorities — it’s time to sort things out. Should we hold on, or let go?
For Kyiv, the race to accelerate arms production capacity is especially crucial as it strives to replace the Western arms it once depended on.
Pope Francis had a profound impact on Africans. A visit with people in Gabon paying tribute to him, hailing a humble man, close to the marginalized, who knew how to speak to Africa from the heart. Could his successor be from nearby?
He’s France’s most powerful and most criticized business leader. Le Figaro sits down with the man who has headed the oil and gas giant for the past 10 years.
For some, it’s an emotional issue; for others, it’s a legal case, one taught as early as the first year of law school.
How do people meet in Ukraine, Israel, Lebanon? How do they fall in love when hopes for a romantic future are tenuous? This report looks at conflict zones where relationships change in nature, and feelings intensify.
By seeking to impose his rules on the rest of the world, Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of his 20th century predecessors in the White House. But protectionism is a whole new trick.
The U.S. president has unveiled a new round of tariffs against his trading partners. But Europeans have leverage against this policy, French essayist Édouard Tétreau writes.
The apparent exclusion of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National, from the 2027 French presidential race is a deliberate choice, not a legal necessity, explains prominent French attorney Hervé Lehman.
At the kitchen table or in a restaurant, some people categorically refuse to share a dish, a few French fries or a dessert. But where does this aversion come from?
In Paris where he met with Emmanuel Macron, the Ukrainian president urged Europe to provide more weapons and soldiers, accusing Putin of having no interest in a ceasefire. French daily Le Figaro’s Isabelle Lasserre spoke with him in an exclusive interview.
Between positive education and family traditions, the dialogue between grandparents and young parents often becomes a source of tension.
In a new study, France’s Observatory of Immigration and Demography (OID) think tank highlights the remarkable social and economic integration of immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Known in France and on social networks under several false identities, the daughter of a Russian millionaire was born in 2003 from an extramarital relationship with the Russian president, who never recognized her.
A group of French 20-somethings share their different reasons for choosing chastity, and discuss the difficulties their choice entails.
GWADAR — Landing at Gwadar International Airport is a bit like landing on the moon. The tarmac lies in the middle of a desert, and there’s no other aircraft in sight except for a C-130 from the United Arab Emirates Air Force. The place seems all but abandoned. In the area around the airport, houses […]
A Chinese company recently bought nearly 1,000 hectares of French farmland. Pourquoi? ‘To put French cereals on Chinese tables,’ its owner says.
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Syria, How Did It Come To This?
-Analysis- PARIS — The Syrian population continues to endure various armed conflicts. Despite all the attention this war gets from international, political and humanitarian organizations, it is now more than seven years since it began — and Syria is suffering from three open wounds. On April 9, at dawn, the Tayfur air base, located between […]
Sexually-charged images of women (and occasionally men) being seized and abducted abound in ancient and present-day artwork alike.
Albert Camus’s iconic novel is a relevant today as it was when it first hit bookstores, in 1942.
The president thinks it’s time to ‘revolutionize’ Islam. But to do so, he needs help from the country’s oldest, most prestigious Sunni university.
French authorities agreed to help the U.S. crack down on tax evaders. But in doing so, people who just happened to be born on American soil face massive penalties and reams of red tape.
PARIS — As we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the author of The Gulag Archipelago, his widow and intellectual accomplice, granted a rare and exclusive interview to Le Figaro. Natalia Solzhenitsyn evokes her husband’s gigantic literary and historical work in identifying the causes of the Russian tragedy. She recalls that […]
PARIS — At the Ritz palace overlooking the Place Vendôme, the “Ritz Burger” beaufort cheese, fries and a green salad is sold for 42 euros. At the Crillon bar, the chef’s mini burgers are sampled until 6 pm, for a cool 28 euros. A longstanding symbol of junk food, the burger seems to have found […]
PARIS — Its destruction, nearly three decades ago, sent waves of joy across the globe. And yet, tourists of all nationalities still come to photograph its remains. The object of this paradox is none other than the Berlin Wall, the historic Cold War symbol that became an artistic symbol, even after its fall on Nov. […]
In the place of narcissistic and subjective dignity wrongly invoked by procreation militants, we need a return to the transcendent and objective dignity of human nature.
With the melting of the ice, maritime traffic is growing, which means new economic opportunities, but also some cold and hard questions.
The summer season in Greenland is fleeting. As the snow melts into the tundra, modern day Eskimo descendants reconnect with their ancestral habits. There is also the deluxe option for tourists.
The Russian president was a KGB agent in the city in the former East Germany when the Iron Curtain started to give way. The ghosts of the past are everywhere.
-OpEd- MONTREAL — The news spread around the world: Canada had just changed the English version of its national anthem, replacing the line “in all thy sons command” with “in all of us command.” Why? To make it gender neutral of course. Officially, and in order to reduce the significance of this change, they pretend […]
As head of the northernmost parish in the world, Leif Helgesen has a clear (and often chilly) view of global warming.
-Analysis- PARIS — He is “a man of about forty-two years of age, of large build, but slightly round-shouldered. His massive head momentarily shook a shock of reddish hair, which resembled a lion’s mane.” This isn’t a description of Elon Musk, but of Michel Ardan, one of the characters in Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From […]
PARIS — It all started with a video shot late last year on the banks of the Seine, between the Musée d’Orsay and Pont Royal bridge in the French capital. The video, which has gone viral around the world since first being posted by the daily Le Parisien, shows garbage collectors discovering with horror dozens […]
French commandos are practically invisible as they carry out high-tech operations across Mali to track down Salafist fighters and other terrorists.