{"id":23218,"date":"2018-11-26T00:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23218"},"modified":"2018-11-26T00:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:23:30","slug":"will-macron-bow-to-the-demands-of-yellow-vest-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23218","title":{"rendered":"Will Macron bow to the demands of &#8216;Yellow Vest&#8217; protesters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79.1372315036\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/emmanuel-macron.html\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> was elected last year on presidential pledges to create more jobs and improve lives.<br \/>But for many French people, his economic reforms are a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accuse him of being a president for the rich, while hurting the poor. One of his reforms is causing particular outrage &#8211; fuel tax.<\/p>\n<p>So-called <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/paris-police-tear-gas-disperse-yellow-vest-protest-181124110401053.html\">&#8216;Yellow Vest&#8217; protesters<\/a> in Paris blocked roads for a second successive Saturday to tell Macron they have had enough.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters say his environment-friendly tax on diesel aimed at cutting pollution has to go, and so does he.<\/p>\n<p>So, will Macron change his controversial policies?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong>\u00a0Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anne Giudicelli &#8211; founder of Terrorisc Consultancy<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Reland &#8211; senior research fellow, Global Policy Institute London<\/p>\n<p>Renaud Girard &#8211; chief foreign correspondent, Le Figaro newspaper<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron was elected last year on presidential pledges to create more jobs and improve lives.But for many French people, his economic reforms are a disaster. Critics accuse him of being a president for the rich, while hurting the poor. One of his reforms is causing particular outrage &#8211; fuel tax. So-called &#8216;Yellow Vest&#8217; protesters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}