PoliticsFrance’s fed-up youth: Can presidential candidates connect with the student movement?
The French government is hoping the autumn recess will calm an unexpected student movement that began three weeks ago over worsening conditions at a high school near Paris. The protests also voice demands from a generation that feels left behind by spending cuts. France Unbowed, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is the only party to have openly backed the students from the outset.
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France’s fed-up youth: Can presidential candidates connect with the student movement?
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