So we first got on the train to France. La France is one of the founding members of the European Union, at war with Germany on and off for centuries. So it was also very unfair the idea of a United Europe, but leave? France has seen a lot of social unrest. The yellow best I ve been out in the streets protesting around and in centre of Paris against young dynamic new President Manuel Macro, who just a couple of years Ago, a lot of people in Europe saw as the next leader of a liberal Europe, and now this is the angry movement that is, rejecting him and everything he stands for as the latest undemocratic even in summer, as not french knots,

in the interests of ordinary french people, so by questioning macro, this movement is really also questioning Europe

from the New York Times. This is the daily I'm Catherine Ben Bernhardt. Today, France, it's Tuesday June eleventh So we get off the train Let us do that in the city in northern France and in the middle of this, region where it makes champagne that we grab a cap and were driving into town, because we ve heard that there is a group of Elvis protestors, who come every day to this one round about and ask

driving along the taxi driver, pointed out this shuddered factory and he said, look fabric regional approach, here is an example of a factory. It has moved to Hungary because cheaper to produce their and guess what Hungary's also part of the European Union. So this is what Europe is all about. It placed the working class people of one country against the working class people of another, so the first guy we need is unhappy with the european union yeah and what did he say about the out? As you can see a lesion Jonah so this guy said he wasn't a member of the Yellow movement, but he said he supported them, and this is so at the polls show very clearly in France that, More than half of the french people support. This movement is grass roots movement against the government and against Europe.

So we arrive at this round about its basically this ass. If highway intersection on the outskirts of grass a kind of in the middle of suburbia. You ve got these emblematic big company names around you. You ve got a big IKEA, you ve got a cave sea and, on the other side, a burger king, like him and on one side in a sort of grassy corner of this round about, is a blazing bonfire. And a small wooden shelter, clearly handmade, maybe the size of a one car crash behind with a french flag blowing the wind and a number of people huddled round the fire with their bright, yellow, reflective vests. So when we first walked up to this group of people around the fire, they look at us with a little bit of some

Should we sort of hung back a little until this woman approached us secretly, profitable, Pineau measures we could treatment was a coup. Her name is closed and she was the sort of small woman but standing very upright, looking very serious, it's beautiful weather or to a vast I'm just going to read at the back of of close them, yellow, as there is actually a slogan in the bag. It is stop. Stop miss the macro and she's written anti micron slogans on the back of her, yet a vast which she had decorated with a lot of pins. We? U conscious milk ass like cows, Mr Macro reduce your own salary. She told me that she had six kids

caesar- fall below historical, something like a dozen grandchildren voyages Rita manipulated work, but you also tells me she's kind of the mother of the round about was issued out to lose your leisure collegial looking to sit up, and she says that she's been here pretty much every single day since the beginning of November. Seventeen two thousand eighty is clear to us that if we wanted to talk to anybody else, we have to sort of get her permission. So we asked her to think these people would mind if we approach them and she turned around. We faced her back to more. Do you want to speak to these journalists? Is it ok if they take photos and talk to some of you and everybody sort of. It and said o K, why not you wanna know nice? Ok, ok,

wants to limit. So we need a whole cast of characters there. Listening I shall go up. We need further decommissioning about giving to this couple of retired Benyon workers, obesity spent their entire life, making champagne on minimum wage another complaining of back problems. After all, these years of hard work. If we go up individual there's live in charge of comic relief here they make everybody I'm gonna get along and we need remain. Did you get it he's a retired electrician in a wheelchair he's, the oldest of sixteen children, and said that he started working at fourteen years ago. There were shaken by legally, nor that it, but he heard about the yellow best movement on tv last November. Then he came to see it and has been here ever since

We may need a retired women have a year ago and pleasure of Athens sets out. What we need is more working for forty three years. She said and now makes a pension of about seven years a month. She tells us that the first time she came to the round about she was just overwhelmed by the kindness here, What answer they tell us? So a lot of them were telling us how this movement started moment. Also, dialogue about it as well Look there's one another's. Audrey Apple has called ethical new his last fall. When President Micron announced an increase in gas taxes, these assume its within companies. Some astounding attack or conduct circles of EMU Plaza because it lacks. This angered alot of people and they started posting. These videos on Facebook said:

to to me up when they started. Calling for protest across from Israel trilateral different video. It was precisely that Some of them will be rejected as it was in which in one video someone suggested that people take these yellow reflective vests with precise judicial northern Europe that only those photographer it was and use them as a symbol of solidarity, because in France, everybody's required by law to have these fast in the back of it, So very soon, people started gathering across the country for these protests and they wore these yellow vests. This idea that gas prices would now be six dollars. A gallon roughly was a slap in the face

a lot of these people who worked very hard and as it was struggle to make, ends meet and it sort of was emblematic of a president who lived in the Paris bubble in a city with good public Sport Dinwiddie have to worry about money, nor getting from a to b in a car. So there was a sense that this president was putting these lofty, globalist ideas and these european values ahead of just regular french people, who are often struggling for working class people. It was an insult. A play is calling for a fair balance, kills and evaluate all the resources in this became a country grass roots movement. So always people gather all across the country in Paris in cities like wrongs, water, there goes the one goal that unites

everybody on that round about was that they want to see Mccrone, gone you'll just got talker Muckle said the second I mean of this. President was so visceral, I mean I've, never seen anything like it normal, nor you figure sourcing, diktat. You also dictatorial Mccoy dictator. It was almost like, after macro some people here, we're gonna done with leaders. They told me, then are you want a leader for their own movement? They want direct democracy, they want the voice of the people to be heard. They won referendums, they told me- and beyond that. You can't even really classify this movement is being either on the right or the left that didn't get drunk. He had usual fairly manifesto developmental. This was actually mostly an apolitical movement that was just fed up with politics. And had become politicized through that there are many other revision or feel

one man I meant said he had actually voted from across the last election and he had had great hopes in him. He trusted him to sort of change. France for the better lawmaking up or dog will made up of all countries bit loafers one alternative to bearable, but to use any said he felt completely disillusion and protracted by this man. Look Manon Jake, I want all monotony. Would you stop? We had voted on the left. He had voted for my cry, and now he said, revolted foreigners will naturally be dummy, knew your watch one thirty. He was going to vote for Marine LE pen. This far right politician has been trying to sell her euro sceptic anti immigrant vision of France first to the Yellow S movement. But my main impression from those conversations on the round about was the people will motivate by a desire to humiliate Mccrone first and to basically tear him down

So is there not a political movement? What are they actually doing so one of the things that they ve been doing regularly and the thing that proper? most people are aware of, because you seen it on television is this Saturday marches and these marches at times have become quite violence on both sides between the police and the yellow best. But then, beyond that and in a very decentralized fashion across the country on this little round about, they will just step into traffic in their yellow, ass in little groups, and they will sort of slow down traffic even stop traffic and they will engage people even rowdy tugged at all, for her tat video, if you can, and while we were there, the started, about half of them start running out into the street and they start sort of disrupting actively as google them.

I've seen some news, all you'll see messy and they do it in. A very friendly polite way. They starts of engaging with drivers talking to them handing fliers. The windows, and they say them. Please would you mind putting your television on your dashboard? Thank you. Please put your yellow based on your dashboard. Thank you is whatever please would you mind putting together this done your dashboard? Thank you. Thank you, and, to the point of these actions mainly seemed was to get solidarity from a larger part of the population beyond the actual movement, to have these very visible signs of support like the yellow best in front of their cars visible at on the dashboard. Eventually. They started very confidently kind of casually almost marching across the street and singing songs and chanting revolution, and it was

a joyous grace of powerful moment where the small group of elderly protesters in the universe a crust this round about with a lot of cars from Hungary and support an anthem crossings so then, suddenly the sky breaks open. And it's like the mother of Thunderstorms it comes down, and ass in this round about is like the Miller, the after an egg within two minutes were all wrenched. It's like pouring down and you're, enlightening super dramatic and basically everybody laughs and things and keeps chanting revolution and then through runs for this incredible downpour and seek shelter in the tiny, wouldn't hunter.

In people kind of huddled, together and look outside into the dark sky, as this downpour unfolds comes down on the bonfire and what's it like initiative, it was kind of like a microcosm of the french way of life that these people are trying to protect? You had a little bar on the left with coffee and pastries and some potatoes You had a so found the right with a few per tonne on the floor once they tap submit like croquet. It's a quintessentially french thing. So on this tiny space you know the sort of seven square metres. You have people riding on the sofa singing the master. Yes, the national anthem laughing chatting and drinking coffee, its

incredibly civilised and jovial an incredibly french. I felt so much come rather in this room. Yes, you we were on this really not very pleasant piece of land. It was howdy. It was noisy surrounded by highways, and yet they had created this sort of community. I really felt like a living there. You should have wondered whether it was real that this may be wishful thinking that there may be a lot of naval how could this ever get anywhere without leadership without organization, but there was some things so vibrant and optimist and so determined. I mean the simple fact that there was a dozen people who come to this muddy round, about every single day

November seventeenth last year at in itself and credible achievement, so a lot of people on that round about told me they weren't there for themselves. They said they were there for their children and for their grandchildren. They basically said they were there for the next generation. Now France doesn't have the same levels of inequality as the United States. Or even Britain. But inequality has been rising here too, and young people are particularly affected by this. Youth unemployment is high, and poverty among those under the age of twenty five is actually been increasing in recent years. So when I spotted a young girl in the back of the shelter, I wanted to talk to her, and so I went over the labelling

only it least s twelve. Her mother Ellen is one of the Yellow esters LISA that Kyoto with one man she says, she's, really proud of her mom of love, that's cool feverish. She shows, and she said, she's creating a better world a world in which people talk to each other more on the streets and spend less time on the telephones. I say things involving the offered by men, so then, just ass, suddenly ass, the rain had started it stopped and the sky brightened and resort of stepped out and the fire was still going or did you

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Elisa heats the head home with their parents, Jeremy and again, but we want to keep talking so they invite us over de LA so we get to their part man. It's on the top floor and we come in. We find this very sort of sparsely decorated, but very homey space. There are a lot of plants. There's a lot of fabric, and when we get to the living room, the whole family is sitting around the table, her husband, Jeremy, an electrician there, three children who go Luna and LISA they're all at high school age, eighteen, fourteen and twelve, and what's really obvious, is that the children really want to take part in this common.

Nation. There are like taking two chairs and howling round the table with us and their dad died. How could I forget? It was a canoe Germany and then we're neighbors as children. They grip next to each other in rats in rest, ass, both of them off working class families, Germany's father worked in a factory allowance, for there was a policeman and they spoke of a sort of modest but comfortable upbringing. City of autonomy should not want, but they will start working as teenagers germinate. Fifteen and sixteen do more good is appropriate,

whether one of them will be when they first started working. They said things weren't, so bad work hours were reasonable salaries increased from one year to the next, but at some point german particular set the life started. Getting really tough. Those of you who are due to be signed with the thing that made him mad was the eastward expansion of the European Union execute issues. He mention companies that would come from other countries. Eastern european countries that were able to undercut companies like his own, In competing for contracts is a good conclusion made, though not we're. Not one on fastened by sea alone will be mentioned. People from those countries eventually coming to France and competing directly with people like him for jobs. And so should? Increasingly, there was a sense that their salaries and their job opportunities were stagnating, their living standards were stagnating and that when his dad

if I was able to buy a house in his thirty's with a young family, Germany failed but he can barely make ends meet. The agreement will be showing a young. He struggled to obtain bills. He has to borrow money from its own parents and feel humiliated by this secrecy. That would have enabled the Louisiana will. He seemed tired, so frustrated and- and he had h beyond this He was only thirty eight and a very handsome man, but he looked older Jimmy Burmese offers. You never shall inform you of what he said. He wishes. He could take his children to the cinema. He wants to take them bowling, but what it was, but will we be postponed?

any somebody up by saying that what we don't live, we just worthy issues, views and his wife Ellen. She said. Sometimes she just cries meal. Men. We freakish vast energy. Put aside their days. She says balloon when all share The two euros every desirable took four five people should to meals she's as she goes to the shop, buys a pack of past her eyes but of bacon and makes to meals. Who chooses or do they do and others frustration? Isn't everybody knew uninjured dude suffer most of their lives. They just stayed away from politics Dear me told me that his parents of always vote, I will be any set and look where that got us to monitor. Who said, what's the point of voting gradual, but would it probably only common law. So at some point. They start hearing about the yellow, vest movement and

Do they really think it's not for them? Is Germany told us he thought this is for me, but on the minimum wage is for people who are unemployed. This is for really poor people he said was visible. Responsibility were visual, gave. Scape, certainly lose me but then maybe they hear some more about it and at some point he decides to check it out and they go, and it was a revelation for them. They arrived on this round about. And they realize they knew a lot of people there and the one They didn't know they met and they discover

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or talk to financial adviser to learn more, would you put pooling of a man who knew no more nobly so over the course of the evening? Over and over again I saw this family. There was angry, not just with Mccrone, but with. Europe must Elysium, there will be. Two images were put into. The European Union had cost wage stagnation. The European Union had increased unemployment, The European Union had basically created the sense of a race to the bottom of it. So journey was pretty clear, simple when I asked him whether he felt your appeal was referred to wash your fifty. He said not at all forty will he set off your French, only French and one about their kids catch him,

Lunar whose fourteen sound completely disillusioned already case, could she said Europe? What is Europe hopes of Europe? To me? It's not much it's just a group of countries, training together every was awake, is what are you gonna, be we ask her what she wants to be when you grow up much worse work I am currently is any more commercial felt it coming, and she told us she would love to work with animals, but then she partners may simply have- and she said, that's just a dream and that she's probably going to end up with following into her fathers footsteps and become an electrician,

She's, if you like, she had a choice and what do you make of others? I think, despite all the camaraderie that we saw on the round about and despite the optimism around the table, a german lens house. This movement has been fading, it's been dwindling in numbers and for the moment it doesn't look like something That is gonna last or grow into something that can lead people sort of credibly out of crisis and provide kind of a future avenue. For them, with real substantive solutions to these. Very a real and pressing challenges. I mean a couple of years ago. We all saw my cross rise and we thought here's, the man And this man made a movement and now the question is this counter movement. Can it make a man

make a woman. Can it make a leader? maybe somebody some face to this movement that will take it forward. In a more strategic way, but that. It happened yet and if it doesn't happen, then the question is where will this go next? Where will these people go next, messy messy messy So ahead of these EU elections, I find myself wondering. Could the members of this yellow vest movement be tempted by the far right someone like Marine Le Pen and her party. Sort of stands for these anti liberal anti EU values, would address some of their frustrations but at the same time,

it's so all consumed with immigration, a subject that really wasn't something that came up a lot in the conversations with the people we met. So the question I guess is at this point: are people in this movement prepared to put someone like marine dependent power just because there so angry with everybody else and recent pulling suggests there might maybe that's it for the daily I'm and then hold see tomorrow in ITALY,

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