France says it will provide an opportunity to remember French citizens killed in the Israeli bombardments of Gaza, while the country prepares this week to pay tribute to citizens killed in the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7.
The former justice minister, one of Macron’s top allies and a possible future presidential candidate, was facing a possible ban on running for public office.
Green groups in France have slammed the government's move to suspend its Ecophyto programme cutting down on pesticides used in agriculture as a "major step backwards".
The suspect, a Malian national now under arrest, went on a stabbing spree at around 8 am at Gare de Lyon station, which operates domestic trains as well as those heading to Switzerland and Italy.
The walkout was "a warning to the government" about teachers' "daily life, their suffering at work and the lack of recognition, especially in their pay," said primary school teachers' union FSU-Snuipp.
The French government has warned that disruption by protesting farmers at Rungis, a food distribution hub which feeds 12 million people, would cross a red line.
