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France’s Macron Picks Little-Known Civil Servant as New Prime Minister

“Honestly, I don’t even really see the point in getting tested,” said one New Yorker who has waited nearly two weeks, with still no results.

The dreams of hundreds of Americans wanting to make the move to France came to a standstill in March with Covid-19 travel bans in the U.S. and Europe. Major life changes, even weddings, were cancelled. Even now, with French visa applications set to resume, many must put the vie en rose on hold.

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It seems likely that travelers from the U.S. will not be allowed to enter the EU on 1 July. This is likely to have ramifications for the French economy, but not as much as the full reopening the border with the U.K., whose visitors to France outnumber Americans by 3 to 1.

As the French government bails out the French airline industry to the tune of €7 billion ($7.9 billion), it is demanding in return that all airlines operating in France ‘go green’ and dramatically reduce the number of short-haul flights if there is a rail alternative.

The favorite village in France in 2020 does not have a particularly French ring to its name. Hunspach lies in the picturesque eastern French region of Alsace. The geranium and half-timber house decked community with a population of 650 is pinning hopes of a post-Covid rebound on its new-found fame.

French investigative news site Mediapart found the former spy chief hiding in Orleans, about 100km southwest of Paris.

The coronavirus has been spreading faster in the last 10 days in French Guiana and the French government is not ruling out imposing a new lockdown on the overseas territory, Prime Minister Édouard Ph…