“Demonstrations have begun across France in what is expected to become a major nationwide protest against high prices and the fraying of a model intended to provide a basic level of opportunity and social security. Saturday’s mobilisation follows calls on social media to revive the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement, which emerged in 2018 against social injustice. The protests began last month at schools in the poor northern suburbs of Paris,” Guardian UK.
“In 2024, the United Nations estimated 9.2 million immigrants (foreign-born people) in France, representing 13.8% of the total population, making France the second largest foreign born population in Europe after Germany and tied with the United Kingdom. This is an increase from the United Nations statistics in 2015 in which there were 8 million immigrants (foreign-born people) in France, which at the time represented 11.5% of the country’s total population.” Wikipedia.
And that is all I’m going to say about that!
