Millions of people across Spain walked off the job on Wednesday in the country’s first general strike in 14 years, bringing public transport, ports and factories to a near standstill in a protest over soaring housing costs. The 24-hour stoppage, called by tenants’ associations and later backed by the country’s largest workers’ unions, was the ...
German Cost-of-Living Protests Turn Violent in Frankfurt: French-Inspired Gen Z Bloc Tactics Cross Rhine Frankfurt’s Halloween night erupted into the most violent cost-of-living demonstration Germany has seen in years. About 1,700 protesters marched through the Zeil shopping district under a banner reading “Gen Z regelt” — a direct import of France’s university blockade movement. At ...
France’s political turmoil deepened Monday as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his cabinet and only 27 days after taking office. His departure marks the shortest prime ministerial tenure in modern French history, leaving the country with its fifth leadership collapse in under two years. Lecornu, a close ally of ...
