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China and France have agreed to resolve their trade disputes through dialogue, China's foreign ministry said on Friday, though there was no indication that agreement had been reached in talks on lifting Chinese levies on European brandy.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he’ll launch a new push with France to try to break a deadlock on a decade-old European Union effort to deepen the bloc’s capital markets and improve access to funding for companies.

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago.

Strikers Ousmane Dembele and Bradley Barcola will be unavailable for France's Nations League third-place clash against Germany on Sunday, the French Football Federation said.

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BEIJING/PARIS - China and France have agreed to resolve their trade disputes through dialogue, China's foreign ministry said on Friday (June 6), though there was no indication that agreement had been reached in talks on lifting Chinese levies on European brandy.

France cannot go on piling up debt and should stabilise its public spending, an effort to which everybody should contribute starting with the most wealthy, Bank of France head and European Central Bank member François Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday.