The French government is under growing pressure to review police use of explosive weapons against civilians after serious injuries were reported during gilets jaunes street demonstrations, including people alleged to have lost eyes and to have had their hands and feet mutilated….

While one French newspaper warned “Europe held hostage by British conservatives ”, the mood among those heading to work on Wednesday in central Paris – where since late last year there have been weekly protests against the government – was one of…

Re your Shortcuts item ( Performative workaholism? Give it a rest , G2, 29 January), Henry David Thoreau put it most elegantly and succinctly in Walden: “The really efficient labourer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will…

On the 12th December, The Guardian published an article entitled ‘If you want to understand the Gilets Jaunes you have to leave Paris’ . The article had little by way of analysis, devoting itself to a standard ‘look at me I live…

The rise of the gilets jaunes protest movement requires governments to prove that ordinary people and corporate elites are “in this together” in shouldering the costs of fighting climate change, a senior EU figure has said. Frans Timmermans, the European commission’s vice-president,…

Illustration: Andrzej Krauze The art of the street demo has a long and venerable tradition in France, but the era of the colour wars may be only just beginning. What started with guerrilla blockades of roundabouts by the gilets jaunes (yellow vests)…

The news in clues As the Artist of the Deal contemplates his bad luck in seeing a sixth former associate indicted , he can still count on the loyalty of one constituency: crossword setters. Here he is, as part of the wordplay,…

A second gilets jaunes (yellow vests) “ leader” has announced she is founding a political party but will not field candidates in May’s European parliament elections. Jacline Mouraud, widely credited with starting the yellow vests movement, said the party, Les Émergents (the…

Paris (CNN)A prominent figure in France’s gilets jaunes, or "yellow vest," movement was seriously wounded during a protest in Paris on Saturday. Jerome Rodrigues, a self-described pacifist, was injured in his right eye by a projectile hurled towards him, allegedly by police….

Luigi Di Maio should be careful what he wishes for. Italy’s deputy prime minister lent his support to France’s Gilets Jaunes protest movement earlier this month. Di Maio’s populist Five Star Movement may well have been hoping to bolster its allies in…