法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙表示，将禁止非工会组织的抗议活动，因为爱丽舍宫正为周六计划举行的示威活动可能引发的进一步动荡做准备。
French President Emmanuel Macron said protests not organized by trade unions would be banned, as the Élysée braces for further unrest ahead of demonstrations planned for Saturday.
近几周，法国多座城市因生活成本示威引发的破坏和抢劫而动荡不安，这发生在该国跛脚鸭中间派政府面临更广泛危机、导致法国债券收益率飙升的背景下。
French cities have been shaken in recent weeks by vandalism and looting sparked by cost-of-living demonstrations, amid a broader crisis besieging the country’s lame-duck centrist government that has spiked French bond yields.
面对赤字和不满，《经济学人》认为，欧洲的“中间派似乎已无计可施”，而极右翼和极左翼政党则从混乱中抓住机遇。
In the face of deficits and discontent, Europe’s “centrists seem out of ideas,” The Economist argued, while far-right and -left parties seize opportunity from chaos.
一位新西班牙政党的创始人写道：“政治不是观众运动”，呼吁建立“一个不再做现状守护者、而是以高速奔向未来的中间派”。
“Politics is not a spectator sport,” the founder of a new Spanish political party wrote, calling for “a center that stops being the guardian of the status quo and runs towards the future at speed.”