Photography

Despite a heavy police presence, the demonstration happened peacefully, and police even helped move cars out of the way for the farmers' tractors to pass through narrow streets.

France's angry farmers

A 1st May in Lyon

A protest sign saying: "Women screw the R-hate", a wordplay on the initials of the far-right party Rassemblement National (RN).

Parisian protest

Austrian fisherman Franz Blum on his boat in the Lake of Constance. Blum comes from a family of fishermen, but today he barely earns enough money from his work as fish stocks have crashed.

Lake of Constance

The main street of Trooz in southern Belgium. The town is stretched out along the Vesdre river, which flooded in July 2021 after days of rainfall.

After the flood

The volunteers assembled by the organization "Des espèces parmi’Lyon" on the bank of the Saône river.

Restoring riverbanks

 Skiing seasons usually last from early November to as late as 1st May in the resorts situated in the highest mountains. This year, most resorts could not properly open until the beginning of January due to high temperatures and an almost complete lack of snow. By early April, they were already closed again.

When the snow melts

Young people's political organisations in the streets during protests in Paris against the retirement reform.

The retirement reform

Roses bearing the inscription "No to war" at the Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park.

9 May 2022, Berlin