French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from 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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French school protests resume on smaller scale as holidays end
French student protests resumed on Monday on a much smaller scale than in past weeks as pupils returned from a two-week break, with youngsters trying to blockade a few high schools in Paris, Marseille and Rennes, French media reported. By 0830 GMT some 41 high schools – about 1 per cent of those nationwide – were blockaded, the Education Ministry said. Hundreds of France’s more than 3,000 high schools were blockaded in the weeks before the bre…
French school protests resume on smaller scale as students return from break
French high school student protests resumed on Monday on a much smaller scale than in past weeks as pupils returned from a two-week break, with youngsters trying to blockade a few high schools in Paris, Marseille and Rennes, French media reported.
Les mouvements de protestation des lycens, qui ont repris lundi en France, restent limits et ne concernent que quelques tablissements, a dclar le ministre franais de l'ducation nationale, douard Geffray, sur France Inter
Les mouvements de protestation des lycens, qui ont repris lundi en France, restent limits et ne concernent que quelques tablissements, a dclar le ministre franais de l'ducation nationale, douard Geffray, sur France Inter.Le ministre a averti que...
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