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PoliticsOct 8France: Police clash with protesters at Paris student rallyPolice fired tear gas at protesters in Paris again as students continue to voice grievances about school conditions across France. The education minister has said 3,000 substitute teachers will reach schools soon.DW News [en]
BusinessOct 8France to release 10 mln barrels of diesel from strategic reservesFrench Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced Wednesday that France will release 10 million barrels of diesel from its strategic reserves to help ease pressure on the fuel market.Africanews [en]
DisasterOct 8Drought: groundwater levels in France remain very lowFrance's groundwater levels remain deeply worrying at the start of October: two-thirds of monitoring sites are below normal and 81% are still falling. The autumn recharge, vital to rebuild reserves, has yet to get under way.EuroNews [en]
Sci & TechOct 8Podcast: AI in France, translators fight back, musicians' mentorArtificial intelligence is everywhere in France but who's using it, and how? We also look at its impact on translators and how they're striving to keep humans at the helm. And Nadia Boulanger – the pioneering French composer and conductor who taught generations of musical greats.RFI [en]
PoliticsOct 8Russian dissident Kara-Murza warns France is sending 'dangerous signal' to PutinIn an interview with RFI, Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza has accused France of sending a “very dangerous” signal that the West is ready to return to “business as usual” with Vladimir Putin, after the French government pushed for European Union sanctions against Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be lifted – a move Kara-Murza called “shameful”.RFI [en]
PoliticsOct 8The Wave of Student Protests Roiling FranceAnger about classroom overcrowding, teacher shortages and broken-down buildings has boiled over in recent weeks, and threatens to coalesce into broader grievances in a heated political season.NYT World
PoliticsOct 8Who is Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of Saint-Denis who found himself among student protestors in France?Dans une vidéo qui fait le buzz sur les réseaux sociaux, Bally Bagayoko, maire de la ville française de Saint-Denis, en banlieue parisienne, se tient face aux forces de l'ordre lors d'une manifestation à Paris mardi. Protégeant avec son corps de jeunes manifestants et criant « arrêtez » à l'endroit des forces de l'ordre prêtes à charger la foule,BBC Afrique
PoliticsOct 8‘This is a crisis of hope’: Echoes of 1968 as France’s students rise upAs in 1968, when student protests triggered nationwide strikes, today’s crisis is about generational discontent.Al Jazeera [en]
PoliticsOct 8High school student protests continue in France#France: high school students continue to protest Thursday in the face of what they say is the government’s failure to respond to their demands. Follow the fourth day of protests on FRANCE 24France 24 [en]
MilitaryOct 8France to start training Ukrainian pilots on Rafale warplanes in November, minister saysDefense News
PoliticsOct 8Live Updates: Students Rally in France for Second Day of Mass Protests in a WeekJust over 150 high schools were closed, and France’s education minister invited three major student groups to meet with him on Thursday afternoon.NYT World
PoliticsOct 8France student protests: What measures is the government taking?French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said in a televised address Wednesday evening that the country could not be "indifferent" to the concerns of protesting high school students, acknowledging that the "anger of young people does not come from nowhere". He denied that security forces have "orders to confront" the young people, and promised the government would present a plan to respond to the crisis at the end of October. But what measures could the French government introduce and will it be enough to calm the protests? France 24’s Rochelle Ferguson Bouyahi takes a look.France 24 [en]
PoliticsBreakingOct 8Fresh day of student protests across France as rally planned in ParisFrench 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.EuroNews [en]
PoliticsBreakingOct 8School protests, blockades resume in France despite PM’s promise to actDozens of people have been injured in the protests, including students, teachers, and police officers.Al Jazeera [en]
PoliticsOct 8High School Students Turn Out For New Protests Across FranceStudents have blocked entrances to hundreds of high schools across the country since late September, and protests have on occasion spiralled into violent clashes with riot police. The post High School Students Turn Out For New Protests Across France appeared first on Channels Television.Channels TV
PoliticsOct 8How much does France spend on education compared with the rest of Europe?Amid student protests, Al Jazeera visualises how French spending stacks up against defence and healthcare.Al Jazeera [en]
BusinessOct 8France to release 10m barrels of diesel in bid to curb rising pricesFrench Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Wednesday that he would make ten million barrels of diesel available to distributors in France, in a bid to help ease pressure on fuel prices. The diesel, which was purchased before the recent price surge and would be made available at cost price, would "automatically lower prices at the pump by an estimated 12 to 18 cents per litre," he said during a televised address.France 24 [en]
WorldOct 8English-speaking notaires in France for UK inheritance law issuesDirectory of English-speaking notaires in France able to advise Britons on wills, successions and the 2021 forced-heirship compensatory levy.connexionfrance · france
BusinessOct 8US voices concern over France's public finance crisisBetween 3% and 4% of the country's debt is held by American investors, particularly private equity funds.Le Monde [en]
PoliticsOct 8French PM Lecornu denies police crackdown as France’s student protests intensifyHigh school and university students across France launched a fourth straight day of nationwide action on Thursday, after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promised measures to improve conditions in schools but stopped short of announcing immediate changes.RFI [en]
PoliticsOct 8France students at forefront of global stirring of disaffected youthGlobal Briefing: While education budgets are squeezed, EU governments are borrowing billions of euros to spend on defenceIrish Times World
BusinessOct 8Big investors ‘bottom fish’ in Eurozone bond markets after France sell-offFears of a blow-up similar to the Eurozone debt crisis have been overdone, asset managers sayFinancial Times
PoliticsOct 8For France’s Resurgent Far Left, Student Protests Are an Opening and a ThreatFar-left leaders are cheering on the students. Government officials accuse them of stirring up the unrest for political gain.NYT World
PoliticsOct 8France's school protests: what lies behind the angerStudents' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.BBC World
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