France faces major nationwide protests on Labour Day on Monday as anger over the passage of President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reforms shows no sign of abating. Follow FRANCE 24’s ...
A broad alliance of ... Vest protests which erupted in late 2018 over high fuel prices, and which forced Macron into a partial U-turn on a carbon tax. Macron's overhaul raises the pension age ...
New clashes erupted in France Tuesday between protesters and police as tens of thousands took to the streets to show their anger against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform which has ...
All eyes on Friday will turn to ... of the protests against the reforms, which include raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. "Now's not the time to give up, because that's what Macron is ...
The month Macron declared victory over Le Pen, in May 2017, France’s unemployment ... to the pension reforms in 2023,” says Kenningham. “But again they triggered very big protests.
That is because they are beginning to howl over the shaky state of France’s finances and Mr. Macron’s apparent inattention to ... Furthermore, the government survived two no-confidence motions over ...
Read more from Hugh: Macron picks Attal, 34, as France's youngest PM The president's language certainly suggested that he had recalibrated his programme to counter the growing challenge from the ...
Four of those Kent State students died. That event, combined with Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, led to protests at more than 1,300 college campuses, with some 500 closed by student and faculty ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pushed back, distancing himself from Macron’s pronouncements ... over the next decade will be on the order of nearly $500 billion. The EU cannot afford chaos on its ...
Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Emmanuel Macron launched Tuesday in Belém a € 1 billion investment bioeconomy program for the Brazilian Legal Amazon as well as for the part of the ...
Gabriel Attal has been named France's next prime minister ... after President Macron's re-election, he was briefly budget minister and then took over at education last July.
Other points of contention include the presence of American military personnel and U.S. bases in the country and the arrests of hundreds of activists during protests over the last month.