Place de la République camp dismantled as National Assembly passes ‘global security’ law

World updates: Further restrictions in Paris; record infections in Germany and Ukraine

The ‘branded Parisian’ needs to be reconstructed as ‘it’s been a long time since she’s looked like Brigitte Bardot’

City moves to ‘maximum alert’, with ban on student parties but restaurants to stay open

Municipal elections can be a poor guide to national performance

Europe Écologie Les Verts seize town halls in Besançon, Bordeaux, Lyon and Strasbourg

Sunday’s elections will be chastening after a disastrous campaign by president’s LREM

Paris, Brussels and Milan all experience significant rises in nitrogen dioxide, data shows

Covid-19 is recalibrating urban living but capitals endure as exciting laboratories

Germany warns against nationalism, as UK and France thank war-time generation

Confidence of Cédric Villani, the race’s most colourful candidate, suddenly doesn’t look misplaced

Benjamin Griveaux says he would plant ‘in neighbourhoods where kids don’t have trees’

Paris Letter: The city has budgeted €1.5m annually since 2017 for the war on rats

Despite devastation of Gothic cathedral, many chalices, paintings and statues saved

Archbishop Luigi Ventura suspected of molesting male staffer during mayor’s address

Online platform hits back at citywide clampdown in French capital

Dunkirk is latest European city to offer a free-fare system. Could we follow suit?

Barricade of burning rubbish bins built as ‘yellow vests’ demonstrate

Carlos Ghosn says buyers are afraid of being ‘trapped’ with cars they cannot sell

Feminist campaigners label the new street facilities sexist and discriminatory