Yellow Vests

Dutch economist Servaas Storm, co- author of a widely-read 2018 study on climate change, Why Green Growth is an Illusion, talks to the Institute for New Economic Thinking about where we are today. Lynn Parramore: In 2018, you and your colleague Enno Schröder…

Recession in Southern Europe. The yellow vest revolts in France. Citizen backlash in Venice, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Price wars in Germany. And dont forget about Brexit. Add it all up, and Carnival Corp has a big Europe problem. The weight of the old worlds…

Emmanuel Macron, a paradox in executive form, was sitting in his office at the Élysée Palace, eight days after the European Parliamentary elections, a loss that was really a win. He was the President of neither the right nor the left, the youngest leader of A…

Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, "Frenchness" is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another.... this is not a good recipe. The more the French élites with the…

If your country can’t figure this out, what hope is there for mine? I kept wondering this as I met with Notre Affaire à Tous, one of four organizations suing the French government for failing to keep its Paris climate accord commitments. In France, unlike i…

Attempts to trigger a national referendum or RIP on plans to privatise Paris airports have thrown a spanner in the works for Emmanuel Macron. But they may also help the president deliver on a pledge to breathe new life into French democracy. In an unprecede…

Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Harriet Blair RowanSACRAMENTO, Calif. They hoisted signs warning of corporate greed, raised their fists in solidarity against government tyranny and blasted fight songs over portable speakers. As Queen’s “We Will Rock You” blared …

What do North Korea and Cuba have in common? The obvious answer is that both are dictatorships. Less obvious is that both recently held elections. On March 12, the North Koreans reported that 99.99% of their citizens had gone to the polls and that 100% of the…

Only 7,000 French yellow vest protesters turned out for the latest round of demonstrations - and only 950 in Paris - in a sign that the movement is fizzling out.  At the height of their momentum in late 2018, the 'gilets jaunes' gathered 250,000 people to vo…

Before you plan your European vacation, it’s worth checking out which countries are the most dangerous and why. The US State Department ranks countries as Levels 1 through 4, from least dangerous to most dangerous. Twelve European countries are ranked Level…