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French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from break
Education Minister Edouard Geffray said only 41 schools were blocked by 8:30 a.m., far fewer than the hundreds affected before the break.
- On Nov 2, French high school students resumed protests after a two-week break, attempting to blockade schools in Paris, Marseille, and Rennes on a much smaller scale than previous weeks.
- These demonstrations are part of a broader wave of so-called "Gen Z" protests sweeping European countries including Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Albania, driven by grievances over living costs and school conditions.
- Last week, Education Minister Edouard Geffray offered €4 billion to renovate schools and cap class sizes at 28, yet called the current blockade attempts "very marginal" involving only "a few individual schools."
- Despite government proposals creating 15,000 new higher education places, students rejected the offers as insufficient; 16-year-old Meriem told AFP, "We've resumed the movement because we were supposedly given answers, but... it's clearly not enough."
- The unrest represents a significant test for President Emmanuel Macron's minority government as protests have sometimes turned violent with clashes involving police and riots in several cities last month.
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15min.ltFrench students returning from autumn break blocked some secondary schools on Monday, determined to revive the protest movement despite offered concessions from the government.
·Vilnius, Lithuania
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France Protests: 41 Schools Hit by Blockades as Student Leaders Reject Government's Reform Offers
Protests affected 41 French high schools after a two-week break, with student leaders rejecting government reforms and calling for further blockades amid wider national unrest.
·United Kingdom
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(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = Student protests resumed on a small scale on the 2nd (local time), the first day of the new semester for most high schools in France following a two-week midterm break.
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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