Farmers light fires as they block a highway near Ableiges, north of Paris, January 26, 2024
PROTESTING farmers encircled Paris with tractor barricades in a “siege” of the French capital today, using their vehicles to block highways leading to the city.
The targeting of Paris — host of the Summer Olympics in six months’ time — and elsewhere in France comes amid similar action across Europe as farmers demand fairer European Union regulations for their work.
French farmers said they aim to stop food deliveries to supermarkets, saying they feel ignored by government ministers they accuse of rarely venturing to farms for fear of getting their shoes dirty.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The plot to build a lavish Dubai-style luxury development where the rich can sun themselves on top of the mass graves of thousands is one of the most bizarre and twisted ideas to come out of the genocide in Gaza, writes ROGER McKENZIE
