PSG, Paris mayor see red in stadium dispute
In happier times: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo with Nasser Al-Khelaifi at the Parc de Princes (FRANCK FIFE) The chairman of Qatar-owned PSG and the mayor of Paris have fallen out publicly over the club’s stadium, the Parc des Princes, raising doubts about the future home of the capital’s only first division team. Nasser Al-Khelaifi and […]
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Anne Hidalgo, the mayor managing paradoxes of Olympic proportions | International
Luis Grañena Abroad, Anne Hidalgo is often seen as an environmental pioneer, someone who, as mayor of Paris, has built hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes and is inventing the metropolis of the future. In France, and in its capital — shimmering and always splendid to outsiders — it is something different. There is a […]
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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Promises To Swim in Seine Before Olympics
The Seine is at the heart of both Paris and the 2024 Olympic organizers’ plans for the summer’s upcoming Games. But despite a billion dollar plan to clean up the iconic river, its water quality has been a major source of concern for Paris 2024 organizers. Poor water quality forced organizers to cancel the Open Water […]
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Paris needs to learn to live with rats, mayor concedes – POLITICO
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has a message for the rats overrunning the City of Light: Why can’t we be friends? After years spent battling vermin, this week Hidalgo’s administration announced it intends to take a different approach and attempt to achieve a more peaceful state of coexistence with the rodents. “With guidance from the mayor, […]
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