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Macron unveils scheme to help less affluent students go to grandes écoles

French president had vowed to close elite ENA school, but now will set aside six places for poorer students

Published: 12 Feb 2021

Tens of thousands protest against new French security bill

Demonstrators, including gilet jaunes activists, also protested against Covid restrictions

Published: 30 Jan 2021

France: teargas grenade that killed woman 'may have been fired directly at her flat'

Zineb Redouane, 80, was closing her shutters during gilets jaunes protest when she was fatally injured

Published: 2 Dec 2020

This is Europe 'It gave me hope in democracy': how French citizens are embracing people power

Towns, cities and regions around France are turning to assemblies of unelected citizens to guide them on everything from climate to coronavirus

Published: 20 Nov 2020

The Hlcarpenter.com view on Boris Johnson's Cop26: ask if GDP growth is sustainable

Editorial: The government needs an environmental sense of purpose that specifies the appropriate ends for economic activity

Published: 11 Oct 2020

French police use teargas at gilets jaunes protest in Paris

Movement returns to capital after being dampened by coronavirus crisis

Published: 12 Sep 2020

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Emmanuel Macron accosted by gilets jaunes in Paris – video

Anti-government gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protesters confronted the French president and his wife, Brigitte, as they walked with bodyguards in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris

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Published: 15 Jul 2020
Emmanuel Macron accosted by gilets jaunes as he takes Bastille Day walk

Published: 15 Jul 2020
The Hlcarpenter.com view on Macron's reshuffle: taking back control?

Published: 6 Jul 2020

Macron astonished as French farmer praises his stance in Brussels

Published: 22 Feb 2020

Paris transport set to return to normal as rail union suspends strike

Union says members need to recharge after 45 days of industrial action

Published: 19 Jan 2020
Police fire teargas as gilets jaunes protests return to Paris

Clashes come on 45th day of strike with 59 arrests and claims police beat protester

Published: 18 Jan 2020

Now even ballet dancers are downing tools over Macron

Kenan Malik

Nationwide protests against proposed pension changes also express a more general distrust of the government

Published: 29 Dec 2019

Published: 29 Dec 2019
Macron wants not just reform but to change the way France thinks

John Lichfield

Published: 8 Dec 2019

Published: 8 Dec 2019
France faces second day of travel chaos as strikes continue

Published: 6 Dec 2019

Gilets jaunes mark anniversary of first protest

Protesters occupy department store in Paris a day after violent clashes with police

Published: 11:29 AM
Uncertainty, inequality, fragility: why France is a country at war with itself

Andrew Hussey

The gilets jaunes erupted exactly a year ago. To understand them, we need to see the movement in the context of 2015’s tumultuous events

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