Why are French farmers blocking the roads? An academic who has been studying discontent within the farming world since 2019 provides some clues.
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The transition to net zero emissions is under grave threat if governments do not do more to address the potential unfairness of some climate policies.
The brutal methods employed by the French police to maintain order during protests contrast with those of its European neighbours.
In the midst of the pension reform crisis, the constant weakening of institutions and mediation bodies raises questions about Emmanuel Macron’s exercise of power.
Far from an exception, 16 March marked the 100th time under the Fifth Republic that France’s president chose to use a special constitutional measure to force through unpopular measures.
French citizens have protested pension reform for the past 30 years. A historian explains why the evolving power struggle between the streets and the state does not bode well for today’s strikers.
While many progressive movements have organised online, conservatives dominate because of better organisation, capital, and social inequality. France’s presidential elections are a case in point.
What research shows is important to win support for bold decarbonisation measures.
France has undergone thirteen major political shifts since 1789, and yet there have been very few major changes to the country’s elite.
The protests, which have lasted for weeks, have become embroiled with deep anxieties in France about decolonisation, policing, the limits to secularism and the place of Muslims in French society.
There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
French rail transport is grinding to a halt. Teachers, truck drivers, lawyers and judges are also threatening to strike indefinitely.
Including direct accounts from ‘yellow vests’ members in the Lyon area, a look back at what has changed in the daily lives of people in the movement.
The mass protests shine a spotlight on the tension between policies that raise energy prices and day-to-day energy affordability.
While the political and long-term consequences of the protests are still impossible to know, Hong Kong is already experiencing some short-term economic impacts.
There’s a lot to play for in this sprawling democratic exercise, so here are the most important matters at hand.
As Canada approaches its federal election, political pundits have been warning of a polarized war among Canadians. But a new survey tells a story of unity.
The coercive Christian rule under which Notre Dame was sanctioned drove a wide exploitation of nature. Let it stand as a reminder of our environmental sins and a call to action.
Far-right yellow vest extremists in Saskatchewan could jeopardize Saskatchewan’s efforts to grow and attract immigrants.
In the past decade the EU has been struck by a series of crises that have proven that it is far more vulnerable than previously imagined.
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