Protests in France to withdraw from NATO
According to Reuters, a group of French intellectuals, including Nobel laureate in literature Annie Ernaux, urged people to participate in protests scheduled by the left for the following week, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to assist the poor in coping with high prices while some businesses make windfall profits.
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According to an Iranian news agency named Mehr, tens of thousands of French citizens demonstrated against the recession, the dramatic rise in living expenses, and global peace.
According to Reuters, a group of French intellectuals, including Nobel laureate in literature Annie Ernaux, urged people to participate in protests scheduled by the left for the following week, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to assist the poor in coping with high prices while some businesses make windfall profits.
“Emmanuel Macron is using inflation to widen the wealth gap, to boost capital income at the expense of the rest”, the group of 69 signatories, including writers, film directors and university teachers, said in a text published in the Journal Du Dimanche.
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The French have withdrawn from NATO earlier in 1966 as a military partner but remained as an ally. It retained its full membership in 2009 by rejoining the NATO Military Command Structure in 2009.
