The majority of Parisians on Sunday voted in favour of 500 new 'garden streets' with pedestrianised areas and green spaces, ...

Anne Hidalgo, re-elected Paris mayor on Sunday, is a Spanish-born socialist who has waged a divisive but ambitious campaign to push cars out of the centre of the French capital. Hidalgo ...

The residents of Paris have voted in favour of closing hundreds of the city's streets to cars. In a public survey, many ...

Parisians has voted on a proposal to transform 500 streets into green pedestrian zones, testing public support for ambitious ...

Paris city hall under Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo is fond of using such de-facto referendums to push through plans, notably ...

"At this stage, this was the thing to do because the situation was becoming complicated, tense and dangerous inside," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told France Inter radio, according to Reuters.

Hundreds of Parisian streets are to be closed to cars after a clear majority voted in favour of pedestrian-friendly measures in a citizens' poll in the French capital earlier ...

Authorities in the French capital are aiming to create green spaces instead of hundreds of roads. Residents backed the project in a referendum marked by a historically low voter turnout.

When, having promised during her 2020 re-election campaign she would never try for President of the Republic, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo did in fact run two years later (as the Socialist Party ...