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*Achoui-Lesage, Nadine; Charlton, Angela (December 17, 2019). [https://apnews.com/6e8881cfd9882fdfe90e50999c4bb342 No school, no trains, no Eiffel Tower: France on strike]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved December 17, 2019. | *Achoui-Lesage, Nadine; Charlton, Angela (December 17, 2019). [https://apnews.com/6e8881cfd9882fdfe90e50999c4bb342 No school, no trains, no Eiffel Tower: France on strike]. ''Associated Press''. Retrieved December 17, 2019. | ||
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+ | *Bhatti, Jabeen (December 17, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/17/paris-strikes-pressure-emmanuel-macron-welfare-ref/ Eiffel Tower 'closed': Strikes bring Paris to a standstill]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved December 17, 2019.</ref> | ||
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Emmanuel Macron | |||
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25th President of France From: May 14, 2017 – | |||
Vice President | Édouard Philippe (Prime Minister) | ||
Predecessor | François Hollande | ||
Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
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Party | En Marche! | ||
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Emmanuel Macron (born December 21, 1977) is an elitist liberal and globalist French politician and a former Banker of the Rothschild & Cie Banque.[1] On May 7, 2017, he won the French Presidential election, defeating right-wing populist Marine Le Pen, with 66.1% of the vote, and he became the 25th president of the French Republic a week later. Macron is a europhile who strongly supports the socialist and globalist European Union, as well as the War on Sovereignty. Macron is an agnostic.[2]
Contents
Biography
Macron was born on December 21, 1977, in Amiens, he studied on the Jésuites de la Providence and later philosophy on the Paris Nanterre University.
He began a relationship with Brigitte, his (married) teacher in high school, once he turned 18 (the French age of majority; the two first met when he was 15 and she was 39). His parents attempted to end the relationship by sending him away for his final year of school, but the two reconnected and married after her divorce from her first husband (and father of her three children) was final. The couple has no children of their own.
Business career
Macron worked for the Inspection générale des finances, a financial administrative body in France. He left this company with a transfer of €50.000.[3] After that he worked in a high rank at the Banque Rothschild & Cie.
En Marche! and the 2017 French presidential election
Macron was a member of the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste) in the past, in 2016 he founded the party En Marche! a leftist liberal party which supports, or is at least friendly towards, a federal European Union, anti-Israel policies, and mass-immigration policies which continue after five years by President Hollande.[4]
Former United States President Barack Obama spoke with Macron, indicating his support for the candidate in the 2017 French presidential election.[5] After the first round, Obama explicitly endorsed Macron's candidacy.[6] By contrast, incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump called his opponent, the euroskeptic Marine Le Pen, the strongest of the presidential candidates, particularly on borders and security;[7] and British politician and radio talk show host Nigel Farage endorsed Le Pen.[8]
During the last days of the campaign, Macron stated that terrorism would be "part of our daily lives for the years to come."[9] He voiced opposition to arresting and deporting the known radical Islamists in France due to "intelligence" purposes.[10]
Macron won first place in the first round of the election, advancing to the runoff along with Le Pen.[11]
During the election runoff, a socially conservative group which promotes family values, Manif pour Tous ("Protest for everyone"), strongly urged voters not to vote for Macron due to his extreme socially leftist and anti-family policies.[12]
The media was desperate to influence the election outcome and framed Macron in a flattering light. They called Macron an independent centrist.[13] Yet he is a left-wing liberal (by US standards) who openly and strongly supports globalism, extreme European integration and the EU, the politically socialist status quo, and left-wing former U.S. President Barack Obama. Macron is not much different from the current French president Hollande on social issues although on economic issues he is more pragmatic. Critics condider him a globalist toady.
In April 2017, Macron refused to communicate and denied press access to the Russian state channel RT, which his campaign accused of spreading fake news and disinformation.[14][15] This measure is comparable to President Trump's decision to refuse several liberal media outlets, such as CNN, from his press meetings, where there was much criticism about this "press ban" as opposed to the little criticism over Macron's actions, which exposes the further hypocrisy by liberals.[16]
In a speech later in the campaign, Macron called the Le Pen voters/supporters "hateful cowards", "anti-France" and "true enemies", displaying his liberal values.[17] This was seen as similar to Hillary Clinton's "deplorable" statement.[17]
About nine gigabytes of data of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron were posted online[18][19] by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin on Friday the fifth of May. The En Marche! Movement has been the victim of a massive and coordinated hack this evening which has given rise to the diffusion on social media of various internal information." the statement said.[20]
French president
Macron's first phone call as president-elect was to Angela Merkel.[21] He assumed office on May 14, 2017,[22] and immediately set to lobbying additional EU centralization.[23] Despite inviting U.S. climate scientists to move to France during the campaign, none had accepted his request by his early presidency.[24] He received criticism for attempting to control media coverage over his administration,[25] and by 2018, his proposed reforms had stalled and his support had deeply fallen.[26]
Macron, a liberal elite, chose an authoritarian and elitist governing style, and his administration's officials stated he would not hold question-answer press conferences because his thinking was too "complex" for journalists to understand.[27] He has been criticized for having an arrogant personality.[28] In his first three months in office, Macron spent €26,000 (around $30,000) in makup-related expenses.[29][30][31] In July 2018, he came under criticism for spending hundreds of thousands of euros of taxpayer money on lavish expenses, such as a swimming pool and replacing tableware with individually-decorated dishes.[32]
Rather than contemplate France's and Europe's historically low birth rates and population loss, Macron (who himself has no children) criticized Africans for having "seven or eight children per woman", which he said explains the continent's poor condition.[33] In August 2018, he criticized his own country as being "Gauls who are resistant to change."[34] By 2019, patriotic and anti-establishment forces had forced Macron to scale back on his agenda,[35] and Macron suffered a further embarrassment when the patriotic National Rally defeated his party in the 2019 European Parliament elections.[36]
Police suicide rates increased significantly under Macron's presidency.[37]
Macron pushed through some economic reforms liberalizing France's economy.[38] His pension reform efforts encountered strong opposition from unions.[39]
Abortion and other social issues
Macron praised a May 2018 referendum in Ireland that legalized abortions in the country, calling it "an essential symbol for women’s freedom."[40][41]
In September 2018, Macron falsely claimed that it's impossible to find a "perfectly educated" woman with "seven, eight, nine children," despite many examples to the contrary.[42]
The French parliament, under Macron's party, voted to restrict parental rights protected under Napoleon by symbolically banning spanking.[43]
Environmental policies
- See also: Yellow vest movement
In attempting to adhere to the Paris climate agreement, which Macron strongly supported, the Macron Administration stopped granting licenses for oil and gas exploration in France and its territories,[44] and it set a goal of ending the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040 in its effort to comply with the agreement's carbon reduction goals.[45][46][47]
In an attack on U.S. President Donald Trump's climate policies, Macron announced he would host a contest for American climate change scientists and award "Make Our Planet Great Again" grants to the winners.[48] By December 2017, 13 climate scientists accepted his offer.[49]
In November and December 2018, Macron's proposal to raise fuel taxes – which he proposed to help end fossil fuel consumption in France – was met with heavy protests in Paris[50] which were overwhelmingly supported by the Franch public.[51][52] Though most protesters were peaceful, Macron implied that most were violent because of a small number of violent incidents.[53] The protests were the worst since the May 1968 riots, and Macron considered declaring a state of emergency.[54] Eventually, Macron's government delayed the tax increase by six months,[55] and shortly afterward, his government announced it would permanently abandon the tax increase.[56] Later, however, Macron lashed out at the protestors, claiming they were a "hateful crowd."[57]
Free speech and political correctness
Macron has worked to restrict free speech as president.[58] In November 2017, Macron proposed making "gender-based insults" illegal in France, a politically correct move that would lead to the further reduction of free speech rights in the country.[59] In an April 2018 speech in front of the U.S. Congress, Macron called for media censorship in order to combat what he called "fake news."[60] In July 2019, France's parliament approved a law to force social media companies to remove posts considered "hate speech" by the French government.[61]
European Union
Macron's EU policies have been described as "radical" by the mainstream media.[62] During his 2017 presidential campaign, Macron frequently flew the EU flag, and as president in 2017, France officially recognized the European Union's flag and anthem.[63] In his new year address, Macron broke from tradition by addressing his "fellow citizens" of the EU rather than of just France, and he called on them to resist "nationalists and [Euro]sceptics" in 2018.[64] In February 2019, Macron's government passed a law requiring the EU flag, with the French flag, to be displayed in all classrooms.[65]
At a speech at the European Parliament in April 2018, Macron called for "European sovereignty", meaning increased European integration, and called for a purge of populism.[66] In June 2018, he referred to populism and Euroskepticism as a "leprosy" that must be fought, rather than criticizing his own government.[67][68]
In a speech in August 2018, Macron again called for a European superstate, and stated that Europe should become "the model for a humanist refoundation of globalisation." He vowed to defeat nationalistic and patriotic forces and compared nationalists to "those who advocate hate speech," claiming that France is "an enemy of nationalism, of the politics of hatred," in addition to calling Viktor Orbán's pro-Christianity speeches "anti-European."[69] He claimed that "the 'true Dane' [or true Frenchman] does not exist — he is a European."[34] He has criticized the Visegrád nations for taking a pro-national sovereignty approach.[70] In a speech in November 2018, Macron called for "shar[ing] decision making on policies, migration policies, development policies, and share our fiscal resources," and he stated that "we must have common defence, turn the euro into an international currency with a budget, and create a European asylum office."[71]
Macron has criticized European countries for purchasing American-British weaponry, ironically stating that "Europe won’t be strong unless it is truly sovereign and knows how to protect itself."[72] He has called for a European army to, among other goals, protect the EU from the United States.[73] France led the push for a united EU army.[74]
Macron reportedly sought to punish Italy for pursuing right-wing populist policies, including pushing for sanctions behind the scenes.[75] He attacked the United Kingdom for voting for Brexit.[76][77]
In January 2019, Macron and Germany's Merkel prepared to sign a treaty further eroding the national sovereignty of both countries and tying them closer together.[78] While some mainstream media sources painted France and Germany as standing far apart on EU issues, their positions were much closer than such analyses implied.[79]
Immigration
In April 2018, Macron stated that a "historic" and "unprecedented" age of mass migration was beginning in Europe, and that "Europe has its destiny bound with Africa."[80] Also in April 2018, Macron stated that mass migration was "not linked" to the high crime rates for migrants in Europe and that Europeans actually were to blame for them.[81] When the media leaked comments the French ambassador to Hungary, Eric Fournier, made defending Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's conservative immigration policies, Macron sharply rebuked him[82] and fired him shortly afterward.[83]
Despite lecturing conservatives and other European countries on the importance of supporting mass migration, Macron himself turned away migrants at France's borders, as Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini pointed out.[84]
Under Macron, an average of three church attacks, including acts of vandalism, happened each day, many of which were caused by migrants.[85]
Foreign policy
Macron failed to stand up for Western values as France's president,[86] he undermined the NATO alliance,[87] and he aligned France with totalitarian China.[88] He also advocated for globalist policies.
At the 2017 United Nations meeting, Macron gave a speech directly opposed to U.S. President Donald Trump's speech, with the latter supporting nationalist policies.[89] On April 25, 2018, Macron gave a speech to the U.S. Congress in which he again spoke out against Trump's nationalist, America First policies, as well as nationalism in general, favoring globalism and expressing a belief in the Idea of Progress.[90] In that speech, Macron misattributed a famous phrase used by Ronald Reagan to Theodore Roosevelt.[91] In March 2018 Macron called President Trump's decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem an 'error'.[92] On May 31, 2018, Macron called steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by Trump "illegal."[93][94][95] On September 25, 2018, Macron attacked nationalism at the UN General Assembly, criticizing President Trump's positions that he articulated shortly prior.[96] In a speech in front of world leaders on November 11, 2018, Macron again attacked nationalism and President Trump's America First policies, claiming that "nationalism is treason."[97] Days after Macron's public comments, 200,000 French protesters took to the streets in anti-Macron protests. 1 person was killed, and 227 arrested.[98]
When France conducted airstrikes on Syria along with the UK and the U.S. in April 2018, Macron stated they were "for the honor of the international community."[99]
In November 2018, Macron criticized President Trump, claiming that his policies were "done to the detriment of his allies."[100] He threatened to veto an EU–Mercosur trade deal if conservative Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro withdrew from the Paris agreement.[101] At a D-Day event with other world leaders, Macron used it to promote a globalist and neocon ideology.[102][103] He meddled in other countries' affairs, stating in August 2019 that he wanted Brazil to get a new president rather than the conservative Bolsonaro.[104] Macron also attacked Poland for not following his far-left environmentalist policies.[105]
Trade
French farmers strongly opposed EU trade agreements that Macron supported.[106]
Approval ratings
Macron's approval ratings fell deeply in his first three months in office,[107] and they continued to collapse.[108] Most commentators attributed this to his authoritarian tendencies and aggressive media self-promotion.[109] By the first 100-day mark of his presidency, Macron's approval ratings were at 36%, 10% lower than his predecessor's was at the same point in his presidency.[110] It was noted that Macron's approval rating fell even lower than U.S. President Donald Trump,[111][112][113] who the mainstream media noted had low poll numbers himself. By July 2018, Macron's approval rating had fallen to 32%.[114] In September 2018, Macron's approval ratings fell below 20%.[115] An Ifop poll in November 2018 reported that Macron's approval rating was at 25%,[116] and a BVA poll later that month found Macron's approval ratings to be lower than Marine Le Pen, who he defeated in 2017.[117] A poll conducted by Paris Match and Sud Radio found that Macron had only a 23% approval rating.[118]
An Ifop-Fiducial poll taken in April 2018 found that 58% of French voters were unhappy with Macron, and 73% described him as authoritarian.[119] In response to his low approval ratings, Macron attacked conservative populist-nationalism.[120]
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- ↑ Meeting with Pope puts Macron's religious views in spotlight, The Local
- ↑ https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/whos-behind-the-mysterious-rise-of-emmanuel-macron/
- ↑ http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/article/2017/01/24/emmanuel-macron-faire-de-la-destitution-d-assad-un-prealable-a-tout-a-ete-une-erreur_5067903_4854003.html
- ↑ Starr, Penny (April 22, 2017). Obama ‘Gently Waded’ Back into Politics: Spoke on Phone with Left-Leaning Presidential Candidate Macron. Breitbart News. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Obama endorses Macron in French presidential race. Fox News. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
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- Tomlinson, Chris (April 21, 2017). Trump Touts Le Pen As ‘Strongest’ Candidate in French Presidential Race. Breitbart News. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
- 'You were my guy,' Trump told Macron, French official says. Reuters. May 25, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
- Manchester, Julia (May 25, 2017). Trump to France's newly elected Macron: 'You were my guy'. The Hill. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
- ↑ Kassam, Raheem (May 3, 2017). Farage Breaks Cover on French Election: ‘I Want to See Le Pen Win’. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
- ↑ Montgomery, Jack (April 21, 2017). French Presidential Favourite Macron: Terrorism ‘Part of Our Daily Lives for Years to Come’ After Paris Shooting. Breitbart News. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Tomlinson, Chris (April 22, 2017). Macron Against Arresting and Deporting Radical Islamists. Breitbart News. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
- ↑ Berton, Elena (April 23, 2017). French voters reject establishment, send Macron and Le Pen to presidential runoff. The Washington Times. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
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- ↑ https://www.rt.com/news/386538-macron-rt-accreditation-requests
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer
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- ↑ France inaugurates Emmanuel Macron as new president. Fox News. May 14, 2017. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ↑ Edmunds, Donna Rachel (May 14, 2017). Macron to Lobby Germany for Closer EU Integration on First Day as President. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
- ↑ Richardson, Valerie (May 16, 2017). No takers yet on French President Macron’s plea for climate scientists to move to France. The Washington Times. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- ↑ Corbet, Sylvie (May 18, 2017). French president talks to Putin, faces media troubles. Fox News (from the Associated Press). Retrieved May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Berton, Elena (September 11, 2018). 'Resistant to change': France's Macron sees pro-business reforms stall, popular support collapse. The Washington Times. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
- ↑ Montgomery, Jack (July 4, 2017). Emmanuel Bonaparte: Macron Declares He Will Govern Like a Roman God. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
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- ↑ Brown, Benjamin (August 24, 2017). French President Macron's make-up expenses draw scrutiny. Fox News. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ↑ Young, Zachary (July 9, 2018). King Macron pledges humility after pool scandal. Politico. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
- ↑ Williams, Thomas D. (July 11, 2017). French PM Emmanuel Macron Deemed ‘Racist’ for Dissing African Fertility. Breitbart News. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Multiple references:
- Duke, Selwyn (September 2, 2018). Giddy Globalists: France’s Macron Says True Dane, True Frenchman “Does Not Exist”. The New American. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- Hale, Virginia (August 30, 2018). Macron Tells Denmark ‘No Such Thing as a True Dane, True Frenchman’. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- Macron affirms love for France after 'resistant Gauls' aside. Reuters. August 30, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ↑ Corbet, Sylvie; Charlton, Angela (May 19, 2019). Populists, nationalists force Macron to curb ambitions for Europe. The Washington Times (from the Associated Press). Retrieved May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Tomlinson, Chris (May 26, 2019). Le Pen Triumphs Over Macron in EU Election Exit Poll, Calls for Fresh National Elections. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
- Miles, Frank (May 26, 2019). Le Pen, Farage parties win elections for European Parliament in France and UK, Greens surge in Germany: polls. Fox News. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
- Fouquet, Helene; Viscusi, Gregory (May 26, 2019). Macron Chastened as French Voters Hand Narrow Victory to Le Pen. Bloomberg. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
- Crisp, James (May 27, 2019). Emmanuel Macron embarrassed by Marine Le Pen in elections but emerges as EU kingmaker. The Telegraph. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
- Tomlinson, Chris (May 30, 2019). Majority of French Call EU Election a Personal Failure for Macron. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
- ↑ Ganley, Elaine (August 18, 2019). French police suicide rate climbs, French govt is flummoxed. Associated Press. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
- ↑ Corbet, Sylvie (November 1, 2019). France cuts jobless benefits as part of Macron reforms plan. Associated Press. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Phillips, Morgan (December 11, 2019). France raises retirement age, offers concessions for 'fairer' system as pension-reform protests drag on. Fox News. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- Thomas, Leigh (December 5, 2019). Explainer: What's at stake in Macron's reform of France's cherished pensions? Reuters. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- Corbet, Sylvie (December 5, 2019). A look at France’s heated debate over pensions. Associated Press. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- Achoui-Lesage, Nadine; Charlton, Angela (December 17, 2019). No school, no trains, no Eiffel Tower: France on strike. Associated Press. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
- Lough, Richard; Belot, Jean-Michel (December 17, 2019). Strikes, protests as French unions seek momentum to halt pension reform. Reuters. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
- Bhatti, Jabeen (December 17, 2019). Eiffel Tower 'closed': Strikes bring Paris to a standstill. The Washington Times. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
- ↑ Childless Emmanuel Macron, Theresa May Celebrate Pro-Abortion Vote in Ireland. Breitbart News. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- ↑ The Latest: Macron: Ireland makes history with abortion vote. Associated Press. May 26, 2018. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
- ↑ Risdon, James (October 17, 2018). Moms with PhDs to French President: We’re ‘perfectly educated’ and have large families. LifeSiteNews. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- ↑ Overturning Napoleon-era rights, France bans smacking kids. Reuters. November 30, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ↑ Bamat, Joseph (June 23, 2017). France to stop granting oil exploration licences. France 24. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ↑ Henry, Devin (July 6, 2017). France to end sales of gasoline, diesel vehicles by 2040. The Hill. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
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- Hale, Virginia (December 11, 2017). France to Reward Anti-Trump U.S. Academics With ‘Make Our Planet Great Again’ Cash Grants. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- Gonzales, Richard (December 11, 2017). Macron Awards U.S. Climate Scientists Grants To 'Make Our Planet Great Again'. NPR. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- Samuel, Henry (December 11, 2017). Macron announces grants to 'make our planet great again' in jibe at Trump. The Telegraph. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- France unveils winners of 'Make Our Planet Great Again' grants ahead of climate summit. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
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- ↑ Multiple references:
- PICTURES: ‘Yellow Jackets’ Clash With Police as French Protest Macron’s Fuel Tax Hikes. Breitbart News. November 24, 2018. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- Caplan, Joshua (November 24, 2018). Macron Admits France in ‘Moral Crisis’ as Protesters Demand Resignation Over Fuel Tax. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- Montgomery, Jack (December 1, 2018). Macron on the Brink: Water Cannon, Tear Gas, and Stun Grenades as ‘Yellow Jackets’ Storm Security Cordons. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- Mikelionis, Lukas (December 1, 2018). Angry French protesters turn violent for third straight weekend, at least 107 arrested. Fox News. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- Tomlinson, Chris (December 2, 2018). Paris in Flames: Violence, ‘Insurrection’ in Third Week of Yellow Jacket Protests. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- Bhatti, Jabeen; Dyer, John (December 3, 2018). Deadly Paris protest becomes expression of French discontent, threatens to upend political system. The Washington Times. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- Caplan, Joshua (November 24, 2018). Paris Protests: Macron Ally Worries ‘Crisis’ Runs Deeper than Gas Prices. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- Caplan, Joshua (November 24, 2018). Expert: ‘Yellow Jacket’ Protest Is ‘Populist’-Style Revolt Against French Elite. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- Murphy, James (December 3, 2018). No Easy Answers in France as Chaos and Protests Spread. The New American. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
- ↑ Tomlinson, Chris (November 25, 2018). Eight in Ten French Support ‘Yellow Jacket’ Protesters to Shut Down Paris. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ↑ Tomlinson, Chris (December 4, 2018). Significant Majority of French Support Anti-Macron Movement Despite Violent Protests. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
- ↑ Friedman, Victoria (November 25, 2018). ‘Shame on’ Anti-Government Protesters, Says Macron as France Revolts over Green Fuel Tax. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
See also:- Friedman, Victoria (November 27, 2018). Macron Fears ‘War Scenes’ Tarnish France’s Global Image, ‘Brown Shirts’ Blamed for Grassroots Protests. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- Murphy, James (November 27, 2018). France’s Macron Laments Protests While Selling His Country Down the Globalist River. The New American. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- Tomlinson, Chris (November 28, 2018). Marion Maréchal Attended Yellow Vest Paris Protest, Witnessed Far-Left Extremist Infiltration Violence. Breitbart News. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Friedman, Victoria (December 2, 2018). Macron Considers State of Emergency After France Experiences Worst Civil Unrest Since 1968. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- Lough, Richard; De Clercq, Geert (December 2, 2018). Stunned Parisians clean up posh central district after worst riots since 1968. Reuters. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Murphy, James (December 5, 2018). Macron Blinks in Face-off With “Yellow Vest” Protesters. The New American. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
See also:- Friedman, Victoria (December 4, 2018). Not Enough: Yellow Vests to Reject Temporary Suspension of Fuel Tax Rises in France. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- ↑ Multiple references:
- Tomlinson, Chris (December 5, 2018). Victory: Macron Permanently Cancels Planned Fuel Tax Hike After Yellow Vest Protests. Breitbart News. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- Chamberlain, Samuel (December 5, 2018). France's Macron scraps fuel tax rise amid fears of more protests, violence. Fox News. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- Corbet, Sylvie; Petrequin, Samuel; Charlton, Angela (December 5, 2018). 'Yellow vests' force Macron to abandon fuel tax hike: 'If not there will be chaos'. The Washington Times. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- Rose, Michel; Vey, Jean-Baptiste (December 5, 2018). France drops fuel tax hike as 'yellow vest' anger persists. Reuters. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
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