The fallout over the AUKUS deal, as we are now seeing, has been a severe rift in relations between two historic allies, the U.S. and France. And the collateral damage may also include NATO. Only ...
French protesters scored a major victory over the weekend when French President Emmanuel Macron scaled back one of his planned pension reforms, but not all are happy. The French government announced a major concession in ...
France’s ongoing demonstrations reflect a global trend of widespread anger over rampant inequality in the world’s economic and political systems. French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to pacify massive protests over his plans to overhaul the ...
“It’s a strike by employees saying, ‘We want to retire at a reasonable age with a reasonable pension.’” Paris, France was crippled by a strike on Friday as transport workers on Paris’s 16 metro lines ...
Once again relatively little was achieved at the annual G-7 summit – a forum that appears outdated and anachronistic. The G7 meetings seem—as each of them passes—to be a waste of time. The 45th G7 ...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are engaged in an ongoing public spat that has now put an Amazon aid package in limbo. A financial aid package of $22 million pledged to ...
An unexpected guest, a financial pledge for the Amazon, trade talks, and Russia’s reinstatement were just some of the key topics discussed at the 2019 G-7 summit in Biarritz. On Monday, the 2019 Group of ...
A potential conflict with Iran warms up but a peaceful settlement is still possible. “Iran on Friday demanded the British navy release an Iranian oil tanker seized last week off Gibraltar, accusing London of playing ...
This is the first part, in a three-part series on the Roma people in Europe. Roma, who are commonly referred to as “gypsies” though the term is often considered derogatory, face widespread and often state-sanctioned ...
“They want to make an example of us because it’s the first time in France that there have been leaks like this.” French investigative journalists are facing imprisonment for exposing, through the use of an ...
The Yellow Vest Movement continues to grow in Europe despite France’s recent attempt to quell protests with an anti-hooligan law. (Peoples Dispatch) French trade unions organized a general strike, and massive mobilizations on Tuesday, seeking ...
Citizen Truth spoke with activists on both sides of the Yellow Vests movement to understand the motivation behind the protest now spreading across Europe. “We are France and France will be heard, I can tell ...
The French government has withdrawn the hike on fuel price taxes but the movement continues to grow. The direction this movement will take could have a vital influence on the future on France. (People’s Dispatch) ...
We’ve had enough. We have low salaries and pay too much tax and the combination is creating more and more poverty,” said French protestor Idhir Ghanes. A series of demonstrations against fuel price increases in ...
U.S. President Donald Trump responded furiously to French President Emmanuel Macron’s idea to build up Europe’s joint forces. The billionaire tweeted his anger after arriving in Paris on Saturday to commemorate the end of World ...
Will a four-nation summit in Germany resolve the ongoing crisis in the Idlib province of Syria and will rebel groups abide by any “buffer zone”? German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to hold a meeting ...
For the last five years, there has been an upsurge in the rate of illegal immigration into Europe by Africans. The immigrants have continued to endure the dangerous journey through the Sahara desert and risk ...
Former President Barack Obama threw what many are calling thinly-veiled jibes at his successor Donald Trump over what he thinks are strong-man antics. Speaking during the Mandela at 100 celebrations in South Africa, Obama criticized the ...
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No… it’s a drone dressed up as Superman, exposing how vulnerable French nuclear power plants are.” (Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett) Greenpeace France on Tuesday crashed a drone dressed ...
On Wednesday, the new Italian populist government, noted for its anti-immigration stance, defended its decision not to open its port to a refugee rescue boat carrying around 600 migrants, despite criticism from the European Union ...
Trump Strikes Syria On this Friday, April the 13th, President Trump launched a direct attack against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians last week. This strike on ...
French citizens, just like Americans and citizens around the world, are fed up with their politicians and the election process. A new French election platform called LaPrimaire.org seeks to change that by creating a crowdsourced ...
After public uproar over two child sex cases in France, France has set the legal age of consent at 15 in a win for sexual assault advocates. France announced that it plans to make 15-years the ...
As the Muslim population in Europe grows, how well are immigrants adapting to their new land and how strong is the anti-Muslim sentiment across Europe? Two new reports came out recently that documented anti-Muslim crimes ...
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