France, Protests
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday framed the mass student protests sweeping France as evidence of the country’s “out of control mass migration” and Islam, neither of which are consistent with protesters’ demands for better school conditions.
Fox News' Jeff Paul reports on escalating riots in France. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine discuss factors driving the unrest.
France has suspended the use of stun grenades for policing student protests that have swept the country, after a 15-year-old's hand was blown off earlier this week.
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers and the European Central Bank told France on Thursday to pass a 2027 budget to calm bond markets, as French borrowing costs hover at 25-year highs.
A sell-off in French government bonds that spread into broader Eurozone markets this month has lured big investors to “bottom fish” among beaten-down assets including Italian bonds and corporate debt, on a bet that contagion fears are overdone.
Chaos in schools, on the streets and in the markets is rooted in France’s struggles to fund its social welfare state, with a presidential election approaching.
Nashville International Airport will add its second nonstop destination to a city in continental Europe next year, Air France announced on Oct. 8.
Students are taking to the streets over underfunding in education as the government seeks to find budget cuts to appease bond markets.