Entity

France

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 85 coverage verticals, including 3d Printing, Africa and African Economy.

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • 🔴 Live: Macron rejects French interior minister's resignation after weekend of unrest

    Reported event · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • 'We tore it up': French looters brag online as minister admits police 'lost control'

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Germany, France to tighten ‘Made in Europe’ stance, pressuring China’s auto industry

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • 🔴 Macron says 'nothing justifies' violence in protests during address to nation

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • South African rugby player Hyron ​Andrews dies in France ahead of Champions Cup debut

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving France

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 500 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 355 on 29 Sept 2026 (+41%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 10 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 3 claims first reported since 19 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “France declares state of emergency by October 31, 2026?” moved from 6% to 14% Yes since 5 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

8,809 documents · 592 publishers · 5% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.048: about 95% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside France

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

GermanyEuropean UnionUnited KingdomAIChinaUnited StatesItalyRussia
  • Europe · 2,802 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Germany · 2,252 shared documents
  • European Union · 1,985 shared documents
  • United Kingdom · 1,914 shared documents
  • AI · 1,618 shared documents
  • China · 1,604 shared documents
  • United States · 1,548 shared documents
  • Italy · 1,511 shared documents
  • Spanish · 1,424 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Russia · 1,386 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 500 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 355 on 29 Sept 2026 (+41%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +1567% from 5 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, between 30 and 500 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions France, day by day.

Market price, cited

14% Yes

priced 20 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 6% → 14% Yes (+8pts, from 18 Oct 2026 to 20 Oct 2026)

on “France declares state of emergency by October 31, 2026?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about France

“France declares state of emergency by October 31, 2026?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/9129b64a627b8212bad8c527 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name france.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving France

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • 🔴 Live: Macron rejects French interior minister's resignation after weekend of unrest

    Reported event · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Macron refuses minister’s resignation after huge protests rock France – Europe live · corroborated · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers
    • 🔴 Live: Macron rejects French interior minister's resignation after weekend of unrest · corroborated · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • 'We tore it up': French looters brag online as minister admits police 'lost control'

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Germany, France to tighten ‘Made in Europe’ stance, pressuring China’s auto industry

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 🔴 Macron says 'nothing justifies' violence in protests during address to nation

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • South African rugby player Hyron ​Andrews dies in France ahead of Champions Cup debut

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank and beat French mayor, say witnesses

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • France and Germany strike car-industry deal linking 2035 engine rules to ‘Made in Europe’ push

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Nineteen hurt after minibus hits train at French channel tunnel terminal

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • France’s stablecoin tax proposal could tax crypto-to-stablecoin conversions

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Proposed French tax on regulated stablecoins could drive crypto traders offshore

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • PSG beat Manchester City in Champions League after financial rules verdict

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Election: france

    Registered event · reported 25 Jun 2026 to 12 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from France

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France

Entity.

Evidence
8,809 documents · 592 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 11 Mar 2026, last seen 20 Oct 2026
Measured
5% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
23 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names France, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about France

Markets whose question is about France or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to France and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

2 more open markets joined to France but not about it
  • 39% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Paris be 14°C on October 21?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 21 Oct 2026

  • 33.5% Yes

    “Will Jean-Luc Mélenchon win the second-most votes in the first round of the 2027 French presidential election?”

    Polymarket · priced 20 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 10 Oct 2026.

Ask about FranceWatch France

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 20 Oct 2026.