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A crowd fills the Puerta del Sol in Madrid around the housing protest camp set up in September 2026, in a photograph taken on 12 October.

Spain halts in a general strike over housing and wages, the first backed by both big unions since 2012, as 234 flights are cancelled

The Hôtel de Matignon, the official residence of the French prime minister, on rue de Varenne in Paris, in 2017. The social conference called by Sébastien Lecornu is set to be held there on 9 November.

France sees between 575,000 and 1.57 million protesters over pay, and Lecornu calls a social conference for Monday

Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, leading a union march in Paris in March 2024.

French public workers strike over a pay freeze as 440 are detained in school blockades