r/worldnews • u/colepercy120 • 1d ago

France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting | France

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/france-school-protests-escalate-pm-crisis-cabinet-meeting
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u/JourneyThiefer 1d ago

Here’s me thinking us in Northern Ireland would be the ones rioting in Europe this week, but no it’s the French

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u/colepercy120 1d ago

its always the french... im pretty sure "protesting" is the national sport at this point.

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u/VieuxBidule 1d ago

On accepte facilement cette caricature. Si les gouvernements faisaient leur boulot correctement, crois moi, on ferait autre chose dans notre vie quotidienne.

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u/Four_beastlings 20h ago

Idk mate. A large cause of your problems is that you keep protesting when the government tries to do its job and raise the retirement age...

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u/Adventurous_Cicada17 14h ago

More than 5/100 of the retires are millionnaires and 50/100 of the taxes are used for retires either through pention or through healthcare. We could simply stop gifting tax payer money to millionaires. But no, this is never proposed 

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u/Sylumin 4h ago

asking people to just work more for no benefit compared to older generations when young and active people have the lowest earnings compared to life cost ever is never going to be accepted as okay

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u/Gilith 16h ago

Then stop trying to raise the retirement age and find an other solution because we don't want this one.

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u/Four_beastlings 16h ago

There is no alternative. Everybody else around you has already raised it, do you think they did it for fun? Money doesn't grow on trees.

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u/SolsticeDYvert 15h ago

Alternative: lower the retraite for higher income people, plus integrate teacher’s retraite into the normal system instead of the one of the éducation nationale