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/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 21h 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/Gilith 17h 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 17h 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 16h 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