France's prime minister has called for quick tax cuts to respond to the anger expressed through yellow vest protests across the country.

What has happened to France, the nation to whom the world has looked for rational thought and which gave us Descartes, who declared: “I think, therefore I am”?

Europe, recently the bastion of democracy at work, has seen some of its capital cities burn and member states vote to leave. It must now show unity, writes Richard N Haass.

Unrest in France has shown how far climate change has forced its way up the the political agenda and neglect can no longer be a policy option for the Irish Government, writes Kyran Fitzgerald