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		<title>Fuel Prices Surge in France: New Aid Promised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fuel Prices in France Hit Record Highs as Government Promises Targeted Aid Fuel prices in]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bank Fees in France Set to Rise Again in 2026: What Consumers Need to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bank Fees in France Set to Rise Again in 2026 After several years of steady]]></description>
		
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		<title>France Drops Controversial VAT Reform for Auto-Entrepreneurs: A Win for Small Businesses</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[France Abandons VAT Reform for Auto-Entrepreneurs The French government has officially dropped its proposed reform of]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;France is Not Creating Enough Wealth&#8221;: The Warning from the President of France Industrie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Asked to react to the rejection by deputies of the revenue part of the 2026]]></description>
		
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		<title>France’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Deepens: Families and Small Business Owners Feel the Squeeze</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rising prices, frozen benefits, and a growing strain on France’s self-employed — how families and]]></description>
		
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		<title>Riots: Summer Sales 2023 Extended by One Week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 06:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another additional measure, revealed by the Minister Delegate for SMEs this Wednesday 5th July 2023:]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coronavirus: Jean Castex Closes the Door to the Immediate Reopening of &#8220;Non-Essential&#8221; Shops</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[COMMERCE: As a measure of fairness during the confinement, supermarkets will have to close non-essential shelves]]></description>
		
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		<title>Covid-19: The Limit for Contactless Payment Increases to 50 Euros from May 11th</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 07:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To support the gradual takeover of businesses, the ceiling for contactless payment will rise to]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coronavirus: 21 New Cases in Brittany</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Plant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The number of coronavirus cases continues to increase. In the space of a day, it was]]></description>
		
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		<title>Yellow Vests: Here&#8217;s the Sum that the State will Pay to Toulouse to Help the City Centre Traders</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spanner44]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 15:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The state will financially help 34 municipalities in France, including Toulouse, to animate and revitalise]]></description>
		
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