The European press is talking about the phenomenon of yellow vests in France this Monday, November 19th. Some evoke the French Revolution, others point to "an obvious crisis of representative democracy". However, few dailies have put this topic forward on their one.
Yellow Vests blocking the roads in France against a rise in fuel interest other Europeans? The phenomenon has taken an unprecedented scale in France, but the European press does not speak much in one on Monday.
On their website at midday, newspapers do not always highlight this Franco-French event. Several articles, however, are dedicated to these events.
"The insurgents"
The very serious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung thus titles one of his articles "Your Majesty, the people is unpredictable". The journalist Michaela Weigel finds a revolutionary atmosphere: "The insurgents in yellow walk on highways, build roadblocks on highways or simply sing La Marseillaise on the squares of the town hall. According to her, this myth of the Revolution is all the charm of France.
The "fluo yellow safety vest" ( " Neongelbe Warnweste " ) has become "a warning for Emmanuel Macron" , writes the newspaper Die Welt .
German newspapers prefer to put forward the French President's speech on the future of Europe given to the Bundestag the day before. Only the newspaper TagesZeitung (nicknamed the "Taz") put the Yellow Vests in one under the title "The car as a catalyst".
"A crisis of democracy"
British side, we have more head Brexit. "The French government was taken aback by the discontent that circulated on social networks against the management of Mr. Macron," says The Times .
In Spain, several newspapers analyze the "revolt of yellow vests" ( "The revival of los chalecos amarillos" ) as a movement of discontent around the purchasing power.
In fact, most news sites provide factual treatment of information about the phenomenon. Even in Bulgaria, countries where demonstrations also took place during the weekend against the price of fuels.
In Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza is worried about French democracy: "What we witnessed in France is above all an obvious crisis of representative democracy. Thousands of people have taken to the streets and clearly refuse to address their deputies, political parties, unions and other organizations. This explains the authorities' difficulty in reacting to this situation. There is simply no one with whom they could talk, " reports Eurotopics.