Government facing calls to ban riot police’s use of explosives. What has been going on in France for almost three months is a brutal repression not appropriate for Europe. Why are we seeing this in France an Spain, but not in the so-called illiberal nations such as Hungary and Poland, which are constantly being condemned by the EU political class. Probably because democracy and justice are not among the EU´s four freedoms.
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