Ingri Bergo

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ANALYSIS: Are French sex scandals now fair game in the internet age?

There was traditionally an unwritten rule in France that politicians' sex lives were private, but several high profile sex scandals in recent years suggest that the French exception is no more.

Politics

ANALYSIS: Why are French health workers so reluctant to get the Covid vaccine?

For many people in France, getting an appointment for the Covid vaccine would be a dream come true, but while health professionals all have access to a vaccine, only one third of them have so far got the jab. So why are France's health workers so reluctant?

'The only good strategy': How France is trying to stop a coronavirus resurgence in Paris' poorest suburbs

To avoid a second wave of coronavirus infections, France has chosen a different way of testing people in the country's hardest-hit suburbs around Paris in the hope it will help avoid a new spike. But is it working?

Covid-19

Coronavirus crisis in France: The battle to save the livelihoods of the self-employed

The French state has forked out billions for self-employed and small business owners whose livelihoods have been threatened by the coronavirus lockdown. But how effective is the rescue plan?

Health

WHO interview: 'If our behaviour returns to normal Europe risks new waves of Covid-19'

The Local sat down with the man at the forefront of the World Health Organisation's quest for a coronavirus treatment to ask whether reopening our societies will create a second wave and what happens when populism meets science.