Summary: Closing out the third season and the year with a look back on some of the major stories that dominated the newsfeed throughout 2019 in Paris , from the Notre Dame fire to Mayor Hidalgo's war on cars and the pension reform strikes that, at the time of publishing this, have continued for four weeks. I’m joined by my friend Jake Cigainero, a fellow journalist and contributor to NPR. NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 4th, the day before the start of the pension reform strikes. We hypothesized how disruptive the strikes would but it ended up becoming far worse than we expected. Mentioned in this episode: Jake Cigainero, NPR: https://twitter.com/jacobstapp Notre Dame fire & big donations: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/12/the-notre-dame-fire-prompted-an-orgy-of-wallet-waving-is-the-cathedral-now-rising-from-the-ashes G7 with Macron: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/world/middleeast/iran-trump-rouhani-call-macron.html Mayor Hidalgo's war on cars (and Airbnb. And Amazon): https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/11/amazon-delivery-online-shopping-environmental-impact-paris/602674/ Pension reform strikes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/world/europe/france-pension-protests.html
