Topics France ’s yellow-vest movement shows no sign of stopping. After a dip in numbers during the holiday period, according to government estimates, 84,000 gilets jaunes took to the streets in towns and cities across France last Saturday for the ninth weekend…

France is at a crossroad. A fairly benign bread-and-butter protest has turned into a major popular dissent putting in question France’s political system. It is new, unheard of, and because we live in the digital age, with immediate communication, the world is…

Geoffrey Cox warned France yellow vest protestors, also known as Gilets Jaunes, will rebel against the EU if French fishermen are barred from UK waters. The Attorney General also mentioned that no Danish or Dutch fishermen will be able to “point the…

Michel Houellebecq at his wedding to Qianyum Lysis Li in Paris in September. He believes the West is in advanced decline To describe Michel Houellebecq, one of France’s most successful living writers, as provocative would be an understatement. A year after the…

What is the situation in Paris? The Gilets Jaunes, a group named after the yellow jacket lorry drivers must display in their vehicles, began their protests in Novembe r. They were campaigning against a new government instigated eco-tax on petrol and diesel….

To succeed, Macron must show voters that the Jupiterean president can come back to earth A protester wearing a gilet jaune (yellow vest) holds a sign reading “If the law is against its people then we are outlaws” during an anti-government demonstration…

The "Yellow Vests" (Gilets Jaunes) movement in France originally started as a protest about planned fuel hikes but has morphed into a mass protest against President’s policies and top-down style of governing. Picture: Valery HACHE / AFP/Getty Images. Let us be under…

Emmanuel Macron has launched a two-month “great national debate” in France with a 2,330-word open letter to the country. The French president hopes the nationwide public consultation will take the sting out of the widespread public anger behind the rise of the…

Protesters in Latvia at the weekend became the latest of numerous different groups to adopt the yellow jackets first seen in Paris, France. A Latvian Russian Union (LKS) protest action "to ensure social and national justice" in Latvia, gathered a few hundred…

When I am looking at news articles in the French press, I am often intrigued by their borrowings from English. A piece I read recently revealed that teachers in modern French schools were suffering from overwork and “le burn out”. You know…