PRESS REVIEW – Friday, October 16: French papers look ahead to Saturday's call for mass protests, which will bring together a number of social movements. Next, climate change has devastating consequences on communities in Afghanistan.

The postwar model of a welfare state run by civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and defining the common good has run its course in France.

French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is celebrating Gen Z protesters driving a school movement shaking France.

In France, teenagers are protesting for better-resourced schools, leading to clashes with one of Europe's largest internal security forces.

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French riot police fired tear gas and arrested over 20 demonstrators in Nantes during a major student and teacher-led mobilization demanding increased public education funding, improved facilities, and systemic reforms to the country's Parcoursup university admissions platform.

While the tradition of student protest has long roots in France, the country’s current fiscal crisis combined with entrenched structural problems with teacher recruitment, sickness absence and a backlog of school maintenance means this is unlikely to be something the current government can easily address.

GRETA Thunberg has joined hundreds of thousands of enraged students in France as violent protests sweep the nation. The Swedish woke-warrior joined joined protesters at the Paul-Eduard Lycée