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French President Macron says the subsidies issue behind US counterpart Joe Biden's signature policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, could become a real sticking point in US relations with Europe. The French president is using his visit to Washington to sharply criticise aspects of the US president’s signature…

Renault and Stellantis unveiled new French-made electric vehicles (EVs) at the Paris Motor Show, as President Emmanuel Macron announced bigger subsidies for poorer families to buy EVs and pushed for more local production. In an interview with business daily Les Echos before visiting the show, Macron said EV subsidies for lower-income households would rise to 7,000 euros ($6,826) next year from 6,000 euros, while falling to 5,000 euros for other French buyers.Read Also He added a "social leasing" scheme helping low-income…

French president Emmanuel Macron has led the tributes to Jean-Luc Godard, after the revered filmmaker died at the age of 91. News of Godard’s death was first reported by the French newspaper Liberation.Godard was known for directing a run of radical, medium-changing films throughout the 1960s, including his feature debut Breathless and Alphaville.Along with contemporaries such as Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and François Truffaut, the Paris-born Godard was a central figure in the Nouvelle Vague, an experimental film…

Chipmakers STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries announced plans to build a semiconductor factory in France, drawing on funding from the government, in the latest move to boost output in the region. The project represents the lion's share of 6.7 billion euros ($6.8 billion) of investment from major global companies that President Emmanuel Macron is due to announce at this year's Choose France summit in Versailles. The United States and the European Union have been pushing for home-grown chip factories by offering…