French President Emmanuel Macron has troubles at home this week. France's second biggest union, the CGT, is leading public sector, rail and energy workers in local strikes in protest at Macron's proposed deregulation of the labor market.
The protest is planned to culminate in a major march through Paris on Tuesday afternoon.
Yet Parisians won't have an easy escape route to the provinces. In protest against measures introduced by the previous government, carnival operators are also barricading roads around several northern French cities. Some are in costume. Politics in a nutshell: You start by picking a fight with rail unions, and you end up facing down a horde of angry clowns.
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