Yellow Vests

Paris (AFP) - Angry citizens have swelled the streets of cities across the globe this year, pushing back against a disparate range of policies but often expressing a common grievance -- the establishment's failure to heed their demands for a more equitable fu…

Workers across France are striking as part of a national wave of industrial action, that has seen protests against reforms to the state pension system. Train and bus drivers, air traffic controllers, energy workers, truck drivers, teachers, students, police o…

The massive worker walkouts and marches were called in the hope of forcing President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his plans to overhaul France’s pension system. In Paris, 11 of the city’s 16 metro lines were shuttered and schools in the capital and across the c…

France's largest shutdown in decades turned violent on Thursday, after protesters in Paris and Nantes smashed windows and torched cars and riot police charged crowds and sprayed tear gas in response.  A general strike has paralyzed the country, as workers an…

Paris, France (CNN)The last time France reached for a universal pension system, Jacques Chirac was president, Alain Juppé was his prime minister and, like today, a wave of freezing cold had descended on the country. Juppé, hoping to balance the country's boo…

Just a year after the gilet jaunes (yellow vests) protests, France is preparing for one of the biggest strikes the country has seen in years. A controversial reform in the pension system proposed by President Emmanuel Macron has sparked fury among the worker…

As France begins its Christmas season, it is also steeling itself for what may be the most important general strike since 1995. The strike begins December 5th, and it is supported by 70% of France. That would normally be enough for a government to pull back …

France on Wednesday was preparing for one of its biggest nationwide strikes in years with stoppages by transport workers and teachers expected to paralyze the country in an intensifying showdown between President Emmanuel Macron and unions. Some 90 percent o…

Montpellier, France. On the eve of an unlimited (open-ended) General Strike called for Dec. 5, more and more unions and protest groups are pledging join it. Two things are unusual about this strike. The first is that it is open-ended, rather than the usual…

President Trump has kicked off his visit to London for a key NATO conference by raising questions over the wisdom of France’s President Macron saying the alliance was suffering a “brain death”, calling it insulting and pointing that France was suffering probl…