A protester holds a placard reading "Abolition of media control by the rich" at Republique.Photo: AFP The weekend’s ‘yellow vest’ protests saw more violent attacks and abuse targeting French journalists and some even blocked newspapers from being distributed. Here Gilets Jaunes tell…

Thousands of yellow-vest protesters joined forces with a left-wing union for the first time this week After almost three months of protests, France’s yellow-vest movement, which rejected any formal leadership or political affiliation, has split over the question of whether to enter…

Aa Aa Dozens of serious injuries caused by Flash Ball riot control guns, used by French police during gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests, have sparked a debate over whether such weapons should be banned. The country’s top police officer, Eric Morvan, wrote…

Hundreds of people put on high-visibility jackets in imitation of French protesters as they marched in central London against government cuts. Organisers from The People’s Assembly Against Austerity described Saturday’s march as the arrival in the UK of the "yellow vests" movement…

Words, however, are precisely what Macron hopes will get him out of this mess. His letter to the French people committing the nation to a grand debate, where ordinary citizens can lodge complaints to their local mayors and offer solutions to the…

Luigi Di Maio, the Italian deputy prime minister and leader of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), has met a senior figure from the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement – a meeting likely to increase tensions between Italy and France. Di Maio…

By Charlotte Hughes-Morgan Red wine and baguette by the Seine, buttery croissants on the Champs Elysées, enraged strikers in high-vis jackets throwing paving stones at police. Just another day in the city of love. The movement of ‘Les Gilets Jaunes’ morphed into…

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has conceded there has been a “clear breakdown in equality” in high-rise suburbs and housing estates on the edge of major cities as he tours France to try to stem the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) anti-government protests….

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Can the yellow vest, that symbol of French anti-elite protest, travel? Well, it’s clearly not as internationally ubiquitous as the red flag of class struggle was some 100 years ago, but most of the 700 people who demonstrated in…

CEO of Champagne Deutz, Fabrice Rosset, said that mass demonstrations in France from November last year had wiped out €0.5m worth of potential sales for his brand. A broken cash machine and anti-Macron yellow Graffiti after riots during the gilets jaunes movement…