Commentary: Can French president Emmanuel Macron survive the "yellow vest" revolution, asks David A. Andelman, a former foreign correspondent and a visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. Protests against planned fuel price rises have become more of a political movement for utter social change than an economic issue of taxation, and Macron is facing an uprising. |
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“The odds are getting shorter every day that we get another referendum. All the momentum is with our campaign.” said James McGrory, the campaign director of the People’s Vote campaign. The idea of a second Brexit referendum has been gathering support from some senior British politicians and seems to have traction with sections of public opinion, but the political situation is so uncertain that it is hard to say whether this will actually translate into another vote, and when or how that might done, or what question might be put. Follow our latest Brexit coverage. |
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Two @Reuters journalists have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 361 days. See full coverage: reut.rs/2RCN5Ug
5:02 AM - 7 Dec 2018 |