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Mad Max in paradise: New Caledonia in turmoil
The Economist· 3 days agoFor more than a week, the poor, indigenous Kanak minority had been protesting against French rule. Now, at the end of a long promenade lined with coconut...
European Election Farmers
Leader-Telegram· 2 days agoParliamentarian Klaas Slootmans of the Flemish Interest party joins farmers protesting changes in farming policy in Beersel, Belgium, Friday, May 31,...
Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls. Farming is a big issue and the far right pounces
Houston Chronicle· 2 days agoThe far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling...
Young, green and European: Meet the new generation of eco-activists running in the EU elections
Euronews via Yahoo News· 7 days agoFor a European Union in which women and men earn the same amount, in which we actively oppose...
A novel about French ennui that sells you American clichés
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAnna, a French psychotherapist, wants things. She wants to sleep with her bisexual and beautiful...
Hardline farmers back in Brussels to protest EU policies
Twin States News· 2 days agoHundreds of tractors from across Europe rolled into Brussels on Tuesday in a protest spearheaded by...
Public Holidays in France & How the French Celebrate Them
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 days agoFrance celebrates eleven public holidays each year, which is the second highest number of annual...
A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker's list — for protesting the war in Gaza
The Forward· 6 days agoHolocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, 86, laid down in the road outside a Detroit-area Holocaust museum...
Meet the climate catastrophe victim filing a criminal case against the bosses of oil firm Total
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 days agoUnder the French legal system, complaints can be filed “against X”, leaving it open to the...
On This Day in History - June 2nd - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 4 days agoOn June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, extending...