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The yellow jackets are getting under the EU's thick skin
NICK WRIGHT looks at the political forces at work in France’s unprecedented social mutiny
WILL UNITY PREVAIL? Demonstrators clash with police in Paris last Saturday

UNELECTED EU economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Brussels is keeping a close eye on Macron’s spending programme which the French president hastily revised in order to quell the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) protests.

The yellow jackets have spawned imitation protests in several EU states and upset the calculations of a European elite that now faces a new set of problems in their eternal quest to secure the consent, passive or otherwise, to the rule of the rich.

This is not just a French crisis, it is a crisis of management for the European Union.

The movement lacks a coherent leadership but some kind of common programme has emerged

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