Post Tagged 'gilet jaunes'

May 20, 2020

The Acton Institute encourages 275 million people to embrace liberty

From the Enlightenment to the works of Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida, the power of French ideas has radically altered the rest of the world. The Acton Institute has engaged France’s long history as a global thought leader in two new French-language articles, which discuss contemporary French influence on U.S. Continue Reading...

March 20, 2020

Spain learned the wrong lessons from the ‘yellow vests’

With COVID-19 ushering in a new era of social distancing, the idea of a mass demonstration seems as quaint as a delivery from the milkman. However, as recently as last month the memory of France’s gilet jaunes—the yellow-vested protesters who blocked French intersections over proposed fuel taxes—inspired Spanish farmers to block streets and wring ill-conceived concessions from the government. Continue Reading...

June 12, 2019

The Acton Institute’s transatlantic website publishes its first article in French

The Acton Institute’s Religion & Liberty Transatlantic website marked a milestone today: It released its first article in French. While the transatlantic website has diligently followed events in France and published an array of French commentators since its launch in January 2017, until today all its articles had been published in English. Continue Reading...

April 26, 2019

What did Emmanuel Macron offer the yellow vest protesters?

After yellow vest protests raged in the streets of Paris for 23 consecutive weeks, French President Emmanuel Macron has responded with a package of tax cuts and decentralizing political reforms. Macron unveiled the proposals at the Elysée presidential palace in the first domestic press conference of since he took office. Continue Reading...