Just a few days before the Paris Agricultural Show (February 24 to March 3, 2024), French farmers are threatening further action. Their colleagues in several European countries are also at war with Brussels.
With less than 5 months to go before the European elections (June 9) and the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), all the indicators are red: debt, recession, unemployment. The social climate is stormy. The political atmosphere is unbreathable. Can we still avoid a social explosion?
It’s hard to imagine the extent to which farmers are monitored in their daily work: by satellite, by helicopter, by inspections. Edifying testimony from Jean-Luc Guérard, from Giscourt, in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
After Germany, Poland, Romania and the Netherlands, French farmers are blocking roads in the South-West. Their protest movement could spread to other regions, leading to further mobilizations.
Record demonstrations throughout France, blockades, fires, violent clashes with the police… No more? Not yet: we start again on March 28, 2023.
The cross-party motion of censure against the government of Elisabeth Borne was rejected by 9 votes. Immediately, spontaneous rallies were formed all over France.
Point-of-View – While 2 million French people were marching in the streets on Thursday, January 19, Emmanuel Macron said from abroad that the pension reform will be done with “determination” because it was in his electoral program. A real provocation.
On June 7, 2022, health care workers took to the streets. Their demands have remained unchanged for three years. They refuse “the death of the hospital and the deaths in the hospital”. All the demonstrations in France.
Hundreds of demonstrators protested in several towns in Chad to denounce Paris’ support for Mahama Idriss Déby Itno and the ruling junta in N’Djamena.
Ten days after the attack on Yvan Colonna by a radicalized fellow prisoner in Arles, demonstrations continued in Corsica. The scuffles have left 38 people injured, 24 of them among the police. Provisional figures.
The anger against compulsory vaccination and sanitary constraints does not weaken as shown by the numerous demonstrations organized everywhere in France this Saturday.
The measures of appeasement do nothing: neither the postponement of the vaccination obligation to December 31, nor the evocation of a possible autonomy curb the violence in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
