#FactOfTheDay 12/12/2018 – Strasbourg Christmas market shooting
A man has opened fire in the French city of Strasbourg near the city’s world-famous Christmas market, 2 people have been killed and 14have been wounded, nine of them seriously.…
FactOfTheDay 11/12/2018 – Social crisis in France: Macron’s exit from silence
The President of the French Republic spoke yesterday to the French after three weeks of revolts in the wake of the Yellow Vests movement. The social outcry was coupled with…
#FactOfTheDay 10/12/2018 – Reformist Nikol Pashinyan hails victory
After Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections, Yerevan has decided: Armenia's acting prime minister Nikol Pashinyan electoral bloc has won. After initiating peaceful manifestations in April 2018 that ousted the country's 10-year…
Protestors dressed in yellow vests (gilets jaunes in French) demonstrate on Place Bellecour in Lyon on November 24, 2018, during a national gathering to protest against rising oil prices and living costs. - Demonstrators who have blocked French roads over the past week dressed in high-visibility jackets, are set to cause another day of disruption on November 24 amid calls to bring Paris to a standstill. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
#FactOfTheDay 07/12/2018 – Protests are continuing in France
According to Le Figaro, the yellow vests could be considered “coupists”. Indeed, protests continue in France since more than a week. In Nice, there were clashes between students and police:…
#FactOfTheDay 06/12/18 – George H W Bush funeral: George W Bush pays tribute to his father in front of world figures
Mr Bush senior, who served as the 41st US president between 1989 and 1993, died on Friday at the age of 94. National funerals were held on Wednesday, December 5th…
#FactOfTheDay 5/12/2018: Police strikes mafia across several European countries
The 'Ndragheta mafia has been struck by several national police forces from European countries on Wednesday. The criminal network originally from Italy counts more than 6000 members and represents a…
#FactOfTheDay 03/12/2018 – COP 24 opening in Katowice
The 24th Conference of Parties for climat change, started today in Katowice (Poland). It follows acts of demonstrations in Brussels where around 75.000 people protested in the streets (02/12). A…
#FactOfTheDay 30/11/18 Prohibition of ordinary educational violence: France catches up with the other countries of the European Union
On Friday, November 30, 2018, French deputies adopted almost unanimously the proposal for a law against ordinary educational violence (VEO). The law consists of two main articles: the first states…
#FactOfTheDay 29/11/18 – A positive step towards the regulation of online hate crime
Yesterday, the EU High Level Group on combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance -of which the mission is to help EU and national partners to address the issues…
#FactOfTheDay 28/11/18 – Trump may cancel G20 meeting with Putin
The US President Donald Trump, gave an interview to The Washington Post, where he threatened to cancel his meeting, scheduled this weekend with Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina.…