Saturday, November 16, 2019

One year on, what has France's yellow vest movement achieved?

In many ways it is hard to believe that France's gilets jaunes, or yellow vest, movement is only a year old. In that time, it has led to a 10 billion euro ($11.05 billion) aid package for the poorest, changed laws and police tactics, cost the French economy billions of euros and forced a French president whose electoral platform was never to back down in the face of protest, to do just that.

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