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The French government has refused to increase fuel prices in 2019
The French government has removed fuel price increases from the draft budget for 2019, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said.
The government confirmed that plans to increase prices in 2019 have been cancelled, AFP reports .
The day before, the government announced a temporary moratorium on increasing fuel prices.
- In France, large-scale protests against rising fuel prices have taken place in recent weeks, with hundreds of thousands of people taking part. Sometimes the protests escalated into clashes with the police and riots. As a result of various incidents during the protests, four people were killed and hundreds were injured.