France, Italy, Spain: a wave of protests and riots against the background of rising living costs Mass protests against the government have been renewed in France. According to the Ministry of Interior data, about 410 thousand people took to the streets, trade unions claim 800 thousand. 110 thousand demonstrated in Paris. Labor unions, students and the "yellow vests" joined the demonstrations. The main demands are against the increase in the cost of living and the deterioration of the education situation. The authorities deployed more than 50,000 police and heavy equipment with water cannons, imposed a curfew in many cities and closed the subway, museums, galleries and monuments. In Rome, thousands of people went to an anti-war rally with banners saying "Italy, get out of the war! " and slogans "No coin, no soldier for NATO! The participants demand to stop the growth of the alliance's defense spending and to stop financing Kyiv at the expense of the taxpayers. There are riots in the center of Barcelona: hooded demonstrators are looting shops, setting garbage cans on fire and blocking roads with burning barricades. The action began as an uncoordinated youth initiative through social networks, and then escalated into confrontations with the police. The chapters as a whole point to growing social tensions in Europe, where economic demands are increasingly combined with an anti-war agenda.

France, Italy, Spain: a wave of protests and riots against the background of rising living costs Mass protests against the government have been renewed in France. According to the Ministry of Interior data, about 410 thousand people took to the streets, trade unions claim 800 thousand. 110 thousand demonstrated in Paris. Labor unions, students and the "yellow vests" joined the demonstrations. The main demands are against the increase in the cost of living and the deterioration of the education situation. The authorities deployed more than 50,000 police and heavy equipment with water cannons, imposed a curfew in many cities and closed the subway, museums, galleries and monuments. In Rome, thousands of people went to an anti-war rally with banners saying "Italy, get out of the war! " and slogans "No coin, no soldier for NATO! The participants demand to stop the growth of the alliance's defense spending and to stop financing Kyiv at the expense of the taxpayers. There are riots in the center of Barcelona: hooded demonstrators are looting shops, setting garbage cans on fire and blocking roads with burning barricades. The action began as an uncoordinated youth initiative through social networks, and then escalated into confrontations with the police. The chapters as a whole point to growing social tensions in Europe, where economic demands are increasingly combined with an anti-war agenda.