Yellow Vests

In the first major press conference of his presidency, lasting for over two hours, the 41-year-old Macron said he wanted to implement “significant” income tax cuts amounting to €5 billion ($5.56 billion) or so, but that government spending would have to be cu…

Emmanuel Macron promised significant tax cuts for Frances middle classes while cutting public spending but told the French they must work like their neighbours, in a much-awaited response to five-months of yellow vest protests. In what the French media dubbe…

French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to cut taxes further and said the French would have to work more as he outlined his response to months of "yellow vest" protests. Thursday's move is the result of a three-month long national debate, during which M…

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron outlined on Thursday in a rare press conference a broad new policy push shaped by months of town-hall style meetings across France in response to the “yellow vest” street protests. Reporting by Jean-Baptist…

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron outlined on Thursday in a rare press conference a broad new policy push shaped by months of town-hall style meetings across France in response to the "yellow vest" street protests. (Reporting by Jean-Baptist…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Paris famed restaurant Fouquet's burns on the Champs Elysees avenue during a yellow vests demonstration (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) ASSOCIATED PRESS Across the Christian world, this past weekend was a ti…

The Notre Dame fire is a global tragedy, and it's also raising complicated questions about our present moment, including trenchant inquiries into which church fires merit global outpourings and whose sacred sites get mourned when they are destroyed. In Franc…

As the Yellow Vests took to the streets for the 23rd consecutive week of protests in France, someone decided to pay tribute to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on 11 April.A photo of Julian Assange’s face …

A photo of Assange with grey hair and a beard was attached to the head of the statue, turning the publisher and journalist into a horse-mounted medieval knight with a menacing spear in his hands. The weapon itself was decorated with a high-visibility jacket, …

Paris, France - Holding signs that read "What about the poor?" and chanting "Justice for all," France's Yellow Vest protesters, ignoring the displays of unity by the French political class in the wake of the Notre Dame fire, marched through the streets of Par…