This past Tuesday, the French government agreed to go back on their plans to hike up fuel taxes in efforts to calm the heated protesting citizens of France. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced rollbacks on fuel taxes and electricity price increases in televised address. The streets of Paris were vandalized over the weekend, due to the planned tax hikes for January 1st. Now the hikes will be suspended for six months, and hikes in electricity and gas prices will be froze