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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu addressed the nation on Wednesday evening in an effort to ease the crisis, promising the government would share a plan to respond to the situation by the end of October....
The prime minister adjusted his stance on the high school student protests in an address to the nation, but warned that he could not meet the main demands. Also mentioning the other crises France is facing, he announced measures on diesel prices....
Good morning. Mared Gwyn and Angela Skujins with you again this Thursday morning. Today: the EU’s trade chief holds crunch talks in Beijing, Maricarmen’s death sends shockwaves in Spain, and student protests persist in France....
Europe's ties with China, the US and the UK are all being tested at once. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič is in Beijing with a deadline to rebalance trade relations, Marco Rubio tells Europe to wake up, and London weighs rejoining the EU. In France, students are back on the streets...
Sociologist and child psychiatrist Laelia Benoit analyzes the discourse surrounding high school student protests through the lens of 'childism,' a term that refers to the set of prejudices against minors based on their age, which she introduced to France....
France said the Iranian authorities' comments on high school protests currently rocking France were 'absolutely unacceptable,' after Iran, which repressed a protest movement in January, accused France of 'human rights violations.'...
France's prime minister, in a TV address to the nation on Wednesday evening, said that the anger of French students who have been holding mass protests 'does not come from nowhere', and promised action on key points by the end of October....
Talking France is back with a special episode on the lycée student protests gripping the country - what are the students protesting about, and are their demands reasonable? Why did violence flare? And will this escalate into something much bigger?...
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu will address the nation on Wednesday evening as part of his government's drive to end the wave of student blockades, which have closed high schools throughout the country....
Across France, high school students from all backgrounds, joined by many adults – parents, elected officials, union activists or ordinary citizens – marched to make their voices heard, mostly in a good-natured atmosphere....
Before attempting to open dialogue, the French government handled the current high school student protests as if they were urban riots, sociologist Vincent Tiberj observes in an interview....
The 18-year-old's Instagram videos have gone viral. A winner of a public speaking competition, she works with a group encouraging youth from working-class neighborhoods to get involved in politics....
Organizers claimed 450,000 people marched across the country, while the Interior Ministry said 256,000.
The protesters, joined by parents and trade unions, are condemning the lack of resources in the national education system.
From the Paris suburbs to Marseille, as well as Toulouse and Lyon, high schoolers interviewed by Le Monde during the blockades described their study conditions, their concerns and their need to be heard....
French student protests on Tuesday will include a large scale demo in Paris - here's the route of the march, and the road and Metro station closures.
The current protest movement largely reflects the worsening of learning conditions, according to a group of sociologists from the University of Tours who have conducted field research among high school students....
The student led an online community of young men obsessed with brutal violence. He could face life in prison for forcing teenage girls to self-harm or perform extremely violent sexual acts....
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....
French unions have called for a day of strikes and demos on Tuesday, October 6th, to support the lycée pupils who are currently protesting over a lack of resources - here's what to expect....
Nearly 500 highschools across France were closed or partially closed on Monday as students continued their demonstrations over poor learning conditions, ahead of a day of wider protests scheduled for Tuesday....
What began as a spontaneous protest in the Paris suburbs has grown to a scale unseen in decades, as students denounce learning conditions and uncertain prospects. The government's essentially repressive response risks fuelling further anger....
Another day of mobilisation is planned for Tuesday. By then, 400 to 500 secondary schools are expected to remain fully or partially closed, including 24 that have been “burned or vandalised”. The ministry also reports that 78 education staff have been injured since the movement b...
Protests by teenagers outside their schools have shaken France in recent days, with students blockading entrances to their institutions and security forces on occasion responding with tear gas....
Up to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed on Monday due to the protests by teenage pupils that have shaken the country, the education minister said....
Student protests that began in and around Paris last week have since reached secondary schools across France. Talks with the education minister haven't satisfied pupils' demands to tackle teacher shortages, neglected facilities and overcrowded classrooms. As student unions call f...
From allegations of anti-Semitism among the French far right to the rapid descent into violence at French high school protests, via confronting the past and France's best biscuits, here's our weekly roundup of the latest news and talking points from France....
France has closed hundreds of secondary schools amid violent student protests, as ministers urged parents to keep children away from blockades and warned families could be billed for damage....
The students say their school hours are excessively long, conditions inadequate including overheated classrooms, and that there are too many staff absences....
More than 1,000 schools, nearly one in four nationwide, joined the protest on Thursday. Tensions have risen as the movement has spread, with confrontations between students and law enforcement at times turning violent....
