Supporters are being urged to turn out in the streets on Nantes on the evening of 31 December, not to celebrate the coming of 2007 but to protest against it. Financial backing, and lots of food and drink, have been promised by a number of cultural festivals based in the west of France.

“Stop 2007. It must not pass. All in the street against 2007,” are the slogans on the group’s website fonacon.net.

@ The Independent