Paris: the poor party, prickly periphery psyche
Today, Paris stands accused on two popular charges: by day it’s become too much of a museum city, and by night it’s killed any party pulse it ever had. The metropole’s veins are in its overcrowded metros which wind outwards and across the periphery to the stained memory of 2005’s suburban rioting. However inside the city, young people are managing to find ways to live cheaply. Five pan-European journalists (and a Taiwanese!) hit the French capital for the next installment of a monthly cities reporting mission, ‘EU crisis on the ground’ - read what they discovered, with an exclusive video and image gallery below
Paris suburbs: cliche piled upon cliche
It's a common European stereotype to define the French suburbs by their one-time violent rioting. But those events took place five years ago. On a visit to the 'banlieue' of Paris today we meet three residents who tell their story - a father-of-three, a social worker and a budding regional election hopeful
housing, immigration, discrimination, politics, suburbs, multiculturalism, racism, paris, poverty
Paris: living cheaply in an expensive city
The crisis is an opportunity of redeeming a more democratic economy, capable not only of satisfying the individual, but especially the community. Young people in Paris are finding solutions based on reciprocity and co-operation
cities, economy, labour market, labour, eurogeneration, youth, economical crisis, paris, europe on the ground
