Tag: France

  • The Birth of ‘Nuit Debout’: a French Spring Awakening

    The Birth of ‘Nuit Debout’: a French Spring Awakening

    One night, after a demonstration against the ill-fated ‘El Khomri bill’, named after the French Minister of Labour and intended to reform the French labour market, groups of people decided to stay together on the highly symbolic Place de la République in Paris, in order to think, talk, debate and propose alternatives to current French…

  • How to defeat the populist narrative

    My name is Giuseppe, I am 26 years old. I work in a library. I have a degree in Classical Literature and now I am studying Philosophy. I live in Eboli, a small town in southern Italy. The recent years of economic crisis have increased populist movements in all European states. The success of the…