The French government has threatened to intervene to break blockades of refineries and oil depots as workers demanding higher wages and better working conditions plan to extend their strike action.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says it is “understaffed, undervalued and underpaid.”

People across the UK are witnessing a sharp decline in their living standards amid soaring prices of fish and chips, a well-recognized national dish and cultural symbol.

Britain is already suffering from its highest inflation rate since 1982 and is predicted to enter a recession later this year.

Tens of thousands of people take to the streets across Austria on Saturday in protest against rising energy prices, soaring inflation, and the government’s inability to deal with the cost of living crisis.

Thousands of people on Monday take to the streets in the German city of Leipzig to protest rising cost of living amid soaring inflation in the European country.

The scandal ridden British Prime Minister, “The Right Honourable” Boris Johnson, has resigned after over 50 conservative members of parliament quit the government within two days.

In the UK a cost of living crisis years in the making has hit hard, forcing ordinary people to shoulder the pressure and accept worsening living standards.

Thousands of people rally in London amid the cost of living crisis in the UK.

According to the US Labor Department, the annual inflation rate rose to 8.6% in May, shattering any of relief from the skyrocketing inflation.