For weeks, France has been in the headlines for its ongoing strike and demonstrations against a pension reform that would push back the retirement age. But not everybody in the country wants to retire early.Continue reading
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Portugal’s worst fires in history – two years on.
In 2017, more than a hundred people died in wild fires in Portugal. It was the country’s worst death toll from fires since records began, and had the government rethink its strategy when it cameContinue reading
Nicaraguan Refugees in Costa Rica: “I don’t understand why people hate us”
One year ago, on 18 April 2018, Nicaraguans took to the streets to protest against proposed changes to the country’s social security system.
50 years on from May 1968: the police’s perspective
In May 1968 student demonstrations spread across France and when workers joined the protests the whole country was brought to a standstill. Jean-Claude Pruvost was a young policeman…
France’s 1948 Miners’ Strike
How coal miners in post-war France went from being seen as heroes to being seen as pariahs.
France’s Lascaux Caves
On September 12th 1940 a group of French schoolboys discovered the Lascaux caves with their palaeolithic cave paintings in the Vézère Valley in south-western France. It was one of the biggest archaeological discoveries…