Yellow Vests

DOUBLE EXPOSURE: Two of Paris’ leading retail alliances have joined forces for a street exhibition highlighting emerging designers during Paris Fashion Week. The Comité Haussmann, which represents retailers like Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, and the Comi…

Vanik Berberian, the independent mayor of Gargilesse-Dampierre in central France, said: The state is finally starting to really understand the potential of rural areas, but this realisation is dulled by a centralist mentality.  Mr Berberian, 64, the head of …

French President Says Benefited From Yellow Vests Anti-Government Protests

When TIME first interviewed President Emmanuel Macron in 2015, he was an Economy Minister with a grand plan for a new kind of politics. The next time, in 2017, he had won power at the age of 39 and was putting that plan into action. For our third interview at…

It’s a bright early September day inside France’s presidential Élysée Palace, and President Emmanuel Macron is reflecting on the grueling 12 months just past, with the so-called Yellow Vests (gilets jaunes) protesters raging across the country, many aiming th…

Household wealth excluding property in the world's 53 largest countries fell slightly last year, in a first since the financial crisis of 2008, German insurance giant Allianz said on Wednesday. The value of ordinary people's bank deposits, pension savings an…

MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 18 — An RT France sociopolitical talk show and two RTDoc documentaries made it to the shortlist of the prestigious AIB awards established by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).  RT France’s Interdit d’Interdire (“Forbidden…

Frankfurt's skyline as viewed from the top floor of the new European Central Bank headquarters. Widely publicized attacks on the euro area monetary policy by German and Dutch central banks have nothing to do with economics. It's just an old intra-European sc…

Some 1,800 people took to the streets of the city on Saturday, according to police figures. This week, the Yellow Vests tried a different approach to the protests, avoiding the city's center and hitting different routes instead. At some point  protesters eng…

Hundreds of demonstrators faced police in a tense stand-off in the French city of Nantes today as 'yellow vest' protests against the government of President Emmanuel Macron took place across the country. Police responded with tear gas after some protesters t…