FRANCE: Police break fuel blockade as key pension vote looms
The French government has applied “special measures” to make sure its unpopular pensions reform law is passed by the Senate on Friday, as riot police moved in to break a blockade on a key fuel depot near Paris. Read More
FRANCE: French Senate debates raising retirement age
Some 2,000 protesters in Paris faced off against riot police outside the French Senate Tuesday as lawmakers inside debated a bill that would raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Labour Minister Eric Woerth says the government will not back down. Read More
FRANCE: Police come under gunfire again in riot-hit suburb of Grenoble
French police say the situation has calmed down in the outskirts of Grenoble, where weekend riots saw dozens of cars torched and gunshots fired at security forces in scenes reminiscent of the unrest that swept across the country’s suburbs in 2005. Read More
FRANCE: Police come under gunfire again in riot-hit suburb of Grenoble
French police said Sunday they had come under gunfire for a second successive night in a riot-hit suburb of Grenoble, only hours after French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (pictured) vowed to restore order “immediately”. Read More
The music stops in Athens
Our eyes are stinging with teargas tonight after a couple of hundred demonstrators from the radical left took exception to the conversion of Greece into an American protectorate. The riot police chased them quickly from Syntagma square. The Hotel Grande… Read More