# French government’s student concessions are ‘tactically shrewd’ but risk new problems

https://mins.news/en/video/117297

- France 24 English, 2026-10-27 11:35 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72NBs9YmCPo

> University College Cork French department head Oliver Davis says the government’s response to student protests combines “tactical confusion” with an inadequate response to deeper structural problems. He warns that concessions to secondary school students only scratch the surface, as France’s expanding protest movement reaches beyond classrooms.

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