The French government must implement bold tax cuts in response to the “yellow vest” protests, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe argued Monday as he revealed the results of a major public consultation on the crisis.
Franch President, Emmanuel Macron, says he wants to create a national day of commemoration for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron were to hold talks in Paris on Monday with the host leader seeking to forge a united European front in the face of Beijing’s inroads on the continent.
Protesters were banned from gathering on the Champs Elysees after shops and businesses there were looted and wrecked.
Paris police said Friday that “yellow vest” protests would be banned on the Champs-Elysees on Saturday, a week after hundreds of anti-government demonstrators rioted and looted shops on the iconic Paris avenue.
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