#french-government

#french-government

Over the weekend it was widely reported in French media that a group of hackers had breached the government's ANTS website, stealing personal data from between 12 and 13 million people. The unidentified group posted messages online claiming that the personal data was now for sale on the dark web, offering sample data to apparently prove that their hack had been successful.

Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a lifeline programme for evacuating Palestinian writers, scholars and artists from Gaza. The Pause programme for writers and artists in emergency situations, as well as a student evacuation programme, were abruptly suspended by the French government at the beginning of August over a Palestinian student's allegedly antisemitic online remarks, a decision that the letter-writing authors said amounted to a collective

The UK will be asked to contribute additional funds to support French efforts in stopping small boats carrying asylum seekers in the Channel, especially closer to shore.

Funds allocated for the whole of 2025 have already been almost entirely used up.