France and US do deal over big tech tax
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They will pay but can deduct it later

France and the United States have reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

French solar road was a failure
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A bit like the French – "too noisy and falling apart”

A one kilometre “solar road" project paved with photovoltaic panels in France is "too noisy, falling apart, and doesn't even collect enough solar energy".

France falls out with US over Internet tax
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English highly amused

The nation which armed and installed a terrorist regime in the US, using fake news about a tea tax, has fallen out with its anti-democratic puppet over an issue of tax sovereignty.

Trump investigates why the French are taxing US companies
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Might issue new tariffs

Fresh after getting a UK diplomat fired for secretly telling his bosses that the US president was unstable, Donald [Prince of Orange] Trump has decided to bully the French into allowing US tech companies to continue their tax-free antics in Europe.

France approves internet giant tax
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Nasty roast beef eating Americans we strike you roughly with a baguette

France’s lower house of parliament approved Thursday a small, pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook -- and the French government hopes other countries will follow suit.

Facebook will tell the French government about hate speech
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There is a lot of hate in France

Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges.

Apple surrenders to the French on tax
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Although it is a question of who surrendered to whom

US technology giant Apple said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax however no one seems to be saying how much it paid.

France declares Cyberwar
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No surrender this time

France’s defence secretary Florence Parly has warned that the Glorious French cyber legions were marching to war.

France orders Google to surrender $57 million
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First head rolls under GDPR rules

French regulators have fined Google nearly $57 million for violating Europe’s strict new data privacy rules.

France angry over tech giant taxing
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Stop talking and make them pay up

The French government is getting its baguettes in a knot over delays in getting the US tech giants to start paying tax.