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YELLOW VEST PROTEST NEWS
Fox-style news network rides wave of discontent in France
September 15, 2021 9:15 am
The model is Fox News — including the clashing talking heads and incendiary cultural topics — and it has worked. Owned by French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, former chairman of the media group Vivendi, CNews increasingly helps shape the national debate.
France's Macron offers tax cuts as part of moves to quell 'yellow vest' unrest
April 26, 2019 10:53 am
Almost two years into his five-year term, Macron is under pressure to quell nearly months of "yellow vest" protests that have brought weekly havoc to the nation.
Paris: Yellow vest anger mixes with Notre Dame mourning
April 20, 2019 6:11 pm
Security was extra-high in Paris as authorities braced for resurgent yellow vest anger, and Paris police said some 70 people were detained by mid-morning. Multiple protest events are being held around Paris and other cities Saturday for the 23rd weekend of the yellow vest movement.
France: Tear gas, hate speech mark 14th yellow vest protest
February 17, 2019 10:44 am
French media quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that 41,500 protesters nationwide turned out Saturday, some 10,000 less than the previous week, with 5,000 in Paris.
France: Scuffles at Paris yellow vest protests on 13th weekend
February 09, 2019 6:52 pm
President Emmanuel Macron -the target of many demonstrators' anger -seems to be clawing back support as he tries to quell the movement with a national political debate. Recent polls show Macron's approval ratings rising.
France's yellow vest protesters join union march
February 06, 2019 9:55 am
As protesters marched, lawmakers in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, voted 387-92 to pass a bill aimed at preventing violence during protests and helping authorities maintain order.
Taiwanese launch yellow vest movement to protest taxes
December 27, 2018 4:25 pm
The Tax & Legal Reform League, an activist group, called the protest after marshaling about 20,000 people outside the presidential office in an initial demonstration a week before this, and another 10,000, according to organizers and Taiwanese media.
France’s far right sees gold in ongoing yellow-vest movement
December 17, 2018 6:30 pm
Mayor Steeve Briois, a leader in France’s anti-immigrant National Front, has allowed the demonstrators to gather around wood fires in a municipal parking lot, and he put up a sign at the entrance to town declaring its support for the Yellow Vests.
France: President Macron to address nation amid 'yellow vests' protests
December 10, 2018 8:36 am
The President will consult in the morning with an array of national and local officials as he tries to get a handle on the ballooning protests triggered by anger at his policies, and a growing sense that they favour the rich.
French protests reveal a clash: Healthy climate vs lower tax
December 07, 2018 3:32 pm
The gas tax is part of a continuing effort started by France in 2014 to regularly raise the taxes on fossil fuels to fight global climate change. The Yellow Vest protests against the tax increase have become the biggest obstacle yet to such attempts to encourage conservation and alternative energy use.
YELLOW VEST PROTEST PHOTOS
The varied faces of France's yellow vest movement
February 09, 2019 10:10 am
These are the faces of France's yellow vest movement, an array of people with grievances so varied that sometimes it's hard to see what they have in common other than the fluorescent vests glowing from their chests.
YELLOW VEST PROTEST VIDEOS
The people ‘are hungry’: Scenes from the ‘Yellow Vest’ protests in Paris
June 22, 2020 6:09 pm
Ambulance workers and students joined anti-government demonstrations after hundreds were arrested or wounded in confrontations in Paris over the weekend. It’s the third week of the “Yellow Vest” protests that have been spurred on by a tax on gas.
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