LONDON: Waves of street protests by French farmers, fishermen and truck drivers against surging fuel prices dominate television and newspapers. If Europe is moving into an autumn and winter of discontent, however, it is not so much because French truckers are blockading oil refineries in France, as because some key political issues on the European agenda seem to be getting out of hand and out of control, especially in Germany and Britain.
LONDON: Waves of street protests by French farmers, fishermen and truck drivers against surging fuel prices dominate television and newspapers. If Europe is moving into an autumn and winter of discontent, however, it is not so much because French truckers are blockading oil refineries in France, as because some key political issues on the European agenda seem to be getting out of hand and out of control, especially in Germany and Britain.