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In a significant move to honor the Kurdish Peshmerga's role in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), the city of Paris ...
There’s a showdown unfolding in Paris over who owns the streets. Residents recently voted in favor of banning cars from 500 ...
Built beneath Paris’ famed shopping street, the nine-story facility frees up prime storefronts, accelerates deliveries and ...
Some two-thirds of those who voted in the poll on Sunday backed the plan to pedestrianize and create green spaces on hundreds ...
NEWS ANALYSIS. The proliferation of rules to limit or regulate car traffic in the French capital has not been accompanied by ...
Around two-thirds of the cast ballots were in favor of the so-called "garden road" schemes, according to Mayor Anne Hidalgo, although only 4% of the 1.4 million registered voters took part in the ...
"At this stage, this was the thing to do because the situation was becoming complicated, tense and dangerous inside," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told France Inter radio, according to Reuters.
Hundreds of Parisian streets are to be closed to cars after a clear majority voted in favour of pedestrian-friendly measures in a citizens' poll in the French capital earlier in March. The ...
Paris city hall under Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo is fond of using such de-facto referendums to push through plans, notably enforcing change after past votes to ban rental e-scooters and triple ...