PARIS (AP) — France’s yellow vest movement kept up pressure on President Emmanuel Macron with mainly peaceful marches and scattered skirmishes Saturday, its 11th straight weekend action despite internal divisions and growing worries about protest violence.
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to speak to the nation at last, after increasingly violent protests against his leadership.
Paris’s Eiffel Tower and a number of other monuments will be closed on Saturday due to the fourth weekend of Yellow Vest protests.
Dutch Yellow Vests have planned action across The Netherlands to protest against “political correctness,” immigration policies, and to call for the resignation of liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
France’s state officials have criticised the executive government for its disconnect with the French people, saying it has underestimated the grievances that have fed the Yellow Jacket movement.
Over one hundred high schools across France have been blocked or otherwise disrupted, with a fire seriously damaging one school in Toulouse, as students protest education reforms.
As the Gilets Jaunes protests in France catch fire, French President Emmanuel Macron is heading for his green Waterloo. And really, humiliation, defeat and — with luck — exile somewhere really remote just couldn’t happen to a more deserving candidate.
