The violence that rocked France this weekend as cost-of-living protests degenerated into looting and burning nationwide is raising alert levels across Europe, where elections will be held in at least half a dozen countries next year.

The violence that rocked France this weekend as cost-of-living protests degenerated into looting and burning nationwide is raising alert levels across Europe, where elections will be held in at least half a dozen countries next year.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the country felt anger and shame following widespread violence over the weekend and called for order to be restored.

France is grappling with the aftermath of a weekend of widespread protests that descended into clashes between police and demonstrators and sparked some of the country’s worst street violence in years, with looting and landmarks set on fire.

A trader convicted of insider dealing was arrested in Dubai on Wednesday after French authorities issued an arrest warrant to force him to serve a three year jail sentence, according to a government official.

Jordan Bardella, the head of the far-right National Rally, said he’s asked his lawyer to lodge a lawsuit after a French online news site published an article alleging he made a series of antisemitic comments over a decade ago.

Monaco is among several nations poised to exit a global financial watchdog’s dirty money watchlist next month, marking a change in fortune for the city-state that’s home to the world’s highest concentration of millionaires and billionaires.

French investigators, aided by Belgian officials, have seized more than €65 million ($75.5 million) as part of a tax probe into McKinsey & Co.

A former French fighter pilot was charged over suspicions he collected and provided classified information to a foreign power, according to Paris prosecutors.

Vincent Bolloré won a Paris ruling that — if it survives a further challenge — could end up saving his company billions of euros after judges backed his long-held claim that he didn’t control Vivendi SE before a split of the media conglomerate in 2024.

Marine Le Pen was cleared to enter the 2027 French presidential race after appeal judges shortened her election ban, yet upheld her conviction for embezzling European Union funds.

A bomb explosion on Monday night in Monaco wounded Vadym Iermolaiev, a local resident who was sanctioned by Ukraine for doing business in occupied Crimea, according to people familiar with the matter.

TotalEnergies SE was ordered by a Paris court to amend its climate change plans to also target the impact of indirect emissions produced in its value chain by customers.

Morgan Stanley risks being embroiled in a French criminal case by a group of communities in Africa that suspect the US bank helped Vincent Bolloré launder money stemming from the disposal of an allegedly corrupt €5.7 billion ($6.6 billion) asset.

UBS Group AG was fined €6 million ($7 million) in Monaco over weak anti-money laundering controls, including filing a report 253 days after a suspicious transaction.

A senior BNP Paribas SA banker who was fired for allegedly bullying his subordinates on the trading floor lost a €1.7 million ($2 million) unfair-dismissal award on appeal after judges drew on testimony from staffers.

A fugitive accused of insider trading says he’s trapped in China because the US won’t let him board a plane to Boston to fight the charges against him. The Justice Department isn’t sympathetic, saying he created the problem himself by fleeing from Singapore before he could be extradited.

A leaked trove of emails regarding the world’s priciest real estate offers a window into how the principality grapples with money laundering.

Elon Musk snubbed a summons by French prosecutors investigating how AI chatbot Grok was allowed to spew out sexually explicit deepfakes and Holocaust-denying content, according to Agence France-Presse.

French police were denied access to President Emmanuel Macron’s official residence as part of a corruption investigation into the organization of state ceremonies posthumously honoring citizens.