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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, accompanied by Employment Minister, Catherine Vautrin, and Industry Minister Roland Lescure, visited the Mauffrey Academy, a training centre for transport and logistics professions in Eloyes in the Vosges region of northeastern France. (COMPLETES VIDI34KK624_EN) IMAGES
Representatives of the majority farming unions, Arnaud Rousseau (FNSEA) and Arnaud Gaillot (Jeunes Agriculteurs), arrive at Matignon to meet French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and obtain "concrete measures" to deal with farmers' anger. IMAGES
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire condemns "inexcusable, unspeakable and intolerable acts" as at least a dozen shopping malls and a large number of stores have been looted, and sometimes set on fire, during an outbreak of violence following the police killing of a teenager. IMAGES
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire meets with representatives of retailers, restaurateurs, hoteliers, insurers and banks to review the consequences of the violence in their sectors, after a fourth night of riots following the death of 17-year-old Nahel M., who was killed by a police officer. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Health Minister François Braun arrive at the Ile-de-France Regional Health Authority (ARS) at a time when emergency services in many regions are facing an increase in activity due to the concomitant epidemics of Covid, flu and bronchiolitis. IMAGES