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The pontiff chose Metz, a city long shaped by Europe’s shifting borders and conflicts, to honour Robert Schuman, the French Catholic statesman who became one of the architects of European integration after the Second World War.

Pope Leo XIV left for Rome on Monday evening after a historic four-day visit to France that sparked huge enthusiasm.

The final of the European Volleyball Championship will feature a rerun of the last Olympic final (21 p.m.). Slovenia and Finland for third place (17 p.m.)

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lourdes on Saturday evening, landing at Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées International Airport to begin the next stage of his four-day France visit, hours after drawing hundreds of thousands of worshippers to an outdoor Mass at Paris’ Place de la Concorde.

France’s rural communities are feeling the full force of the global energy crisis sparked by the war in Iran. Almost 21 million people — nearly a third of the French population — live in the countryside, which covers around 90% of the country’s landmass.