The New Dark Age

21 October, 2010

In France, public transport is paralyzed, flights cancelled and one million people protesting, demanding the government backs down from retirement age reforms. The protests erupted into violence after President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed his conservative party would press ahead with raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty-two, still lower than in most European countries. Young people took to the streets throughout the country, hurling stones and bottles, burning cars and breaking windows in stores. Police