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France erupts over schools: Why the violence surrounding surprise movement?

It’s a protest movement that a broke, lame-duck French government did not see coming. Civil servants this Tuesday joined high schoolers who are now in their third week of picketing over long-deteriorating classroom conditions. The usual recipe for wearing down movements in France has recently been to match any violence…

France 24 · Oct 6

Rivals cry foul as French oil giant TotalEnergies keeps gas prices capped below national average

French motorists are flocking to gas stations operated by TotalEnergies, where gasoline prices are capped, but its rivals are accusing the oil giant of unfair competition with the government's support.

France 24 · Sep 16

Are France's Yellow Vests and Block Everything protests two sides of the same coin?

A new citizens' movement called Block Everything has taken to the streets of France. Is there more to it than a remake of the 2018 Yellow Vests anti-government protests?

Euronews · Sep 12, 2025

For France's Yellow Vest protesters, the fight goes on

On November 17, 2018, French men and women gathered for the first time on the capital’s iconic Champs-Élysées and on hundreds of roundabouts throughout France to protest against the high cost of living. They were easily recognisable by their yellow high-visibility vests. The months-long demonstrations against the government of President…

France 24 · Jun 24, 2022

Violence erupts in Paris as thousands demonstrate against Macron in May Day protests

Violence erupted in central Paris on Sunday as thousands used traditional May Day protests to demonstrate against the re-election of President Emmanuel Macron.

Evening Standard · May 1, 2022

'Macron forced me to become more political': a tale of two Yellow Vests

Nathalie and Agnès joined France's anti-government Yellow Vest protests from the outset in November 2018. Sixty weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations failed to topple the President, but Emmanuel Macron inadvertently made them more politically aware, and they're now using that to vote him out of office.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 17, 2022

Podcast: Yellow Vests' revenge, rising abstention, the end of France's brothels

Yellow Vest militants hope to vote Macron out of office. How younger generations are shifting their relationship to voting. And the WWI spy who lobbied successfully to shut down France's brothels in 1946.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 7, 2022

Will France’s Yellow Vests come back to haunt Macron on election day?

The most potent protest movement in recent French history, the Yellow Vest uprising looked at one point like it might bring a premature end to Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. More than three years after it was smothered, its politicised remnants are counting on their ballots to finish the job.

France 24 · Apr 1, 2022