An Autumn of Discontent Grips France
Teachers, students and traders are pressuring a weak government as 10-year bond yields near 5%, raising doubts about France’s budget plan.
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Public sector employees on strike. Barricaded schools. Locked ports. Budget paralysis. Rates of bonds in sharp increase. Fears about a takeover of power by the extreme right. Chaosing schools, streets and markets in France has its roots in Paris' efforts to finance the social state, on the basis of the proximity of presidential elections, writes The New York Times.
Strikes, barricades and fiscal turmoil: An autumn of discontent grips France
France’s two-decade-long struggle to fund its state is exacerbated by high borrowing costs, surging fuel prices and political uncertainty, with jockeying underway to replace President Emmanuel Macron.
An Autumn of Discontent Grips France
“Striking public workers. Barricaded high schools. Blocked ports. Budget paralysis. Spiraling bond rates. Fears of a far-right takeover,” the New York Times reports. “France suddenly finds itself engulfed by crisis — not a single spasm of unrest, but a cascade of disruption that is roiling city streets, trading floors and public offices across the country. […]
With the backing of professional organizations joining high school and university students for a demonstration on Tuesday, the protest movement is reaching a new phase. Yet France's public deficit and debt leave the government with little room to maneuver.
Six months before a potentially historic presidential race, a pre-revolutionary atmosphere is slowly smoldering in France. From schoolchildren, students, and teachers, to fishermen and transporters, civil servants, and pensioners: everyone is grumbling. And the government? It has no budgetary room to maneuver to combat the ‘ras-le-bol’ sentiment.
Chaos in schools, streets and markets stems from France's difficulties in financing its state of social welfare on the eve of a presidential election
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