French riot police fired teargas to disperse masked protesters from the Champs Élysées after the annual Bastille Day military parade ended in Paris on Sunday. A few dozen men — some masked and dressed in black — briefly tried to block roads…

The Tour de France peloton on the road from Troyes to Nuits-Saint-Georges in 2017. Photo: Getty Images Analysis: France’s focus will be on the maillot jaune rather than the gilets jaunes in July as the annual cycling fête tours the country The…

The gilets jaunes crisis began in November 2018 and quickly spread to become a mass movement The gilets jaunes crisis was “foreseeable”, Brigitte Macron, wife of President Emmanuel Macron, has said seven months after the start of the movement, admitting that she…

See both images I am quite partial to a bike ride. There is no feeling like it, when you’ve managed to crack that hill, with your legs smarting, as you feel the cool Hertfordshire breeze running through your bald patch. I often…

Police and protesters have clashed, sometimes violently, in cities across Europe as tens of thousands of trade unionists, anti-capitalists and other demonstrators marched in traditional May Day rallies. The worst confrontations were in Paris , where riot police fired teargas and stingball…

ABB FIA Formula E increased security for this weekend’s race in Paris as a result of recent disturbances in the city caused by the ‘gilets jaunes’ protest movement. The gilets jaunes or ‘yellow vests’ movement began in November 2018 as a protest…

French MP Paula Forteza talks to SmartCitiesWorld about the lessons learned from this large-scale consultation exercise and details how France has tried to channel the anger seen on its streets into positive public engagement. Paula Forteza The ‘ gilets jaunes’ (“yellow vests”)…

French MP Paula Forteza talks to SmartCitiesWorld about the lessons learned from this large-scale consultation exercise and details how France has tried to channel the anger seen on its streets into positive public engagement. Paula Forteza The ‘ gilets jaunes’ (“yellow vests”)…

Demonstrators light a car on fire during a protest of the yellow vests. Credit: It is a political rule of thumb that street violence and disorder eventually redounds to the benefit of the party that can put an end to it. Except…

Protesters in Paris lit fires and vandalised buildings as violence flared once more The French government will replace the Paris police chief and ban rallies in some areas, after Saturday’s violent protests. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the authorities would act as…