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2007–09: 2007–09 university protests in France, protest movements resulting from several reform projects under Minister for Higher Education and Research Valérie Pécresse. 2009: 2009 French riots, a series of riots that occurred on Bastille Day (14 July) in the commune of Montreuil, an eastern suburb area of Paris.
Jul 6, 2015 · For all of these reasons, then, French unions are more likely to stage radical actions than their peers in other countries. And France's long protest history means that the French have gotten very ...
Oct 22, 2015 · Photograph: Ed Alcock for the Guardian. It is 10 years since France’s urban riots of 2005 promised to be the wake-up call that would force an end to the inequalities of ghetto high-rises in the ...
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Oct 20, 2010 · Wed 20 Oct 2010 03.47 EDT. ... Tariq Ali, who led student protests in the UK in the 1960s, has been cheered by the sight of the French protests, and wonders why the English aren't more militant.
The French Union Solidaires protesting in the Place du Martroi in Orléans. The 2010 pension reform strikes in France were a series of general strikes and demonstrations which occurred in France throughout September and October 2010. They involved union members from both the private and public sectors protesting in cities, including Bordeaux ...
Jan 11, 2015 · 11 January 2015. Mishal Husain reports from Paris: ''The applause goes up from the crowd''. More than three million people have taken part in unity marches across France after 17 people died ...
Jan 19, 2023 · For example, in 2010, Nicolas Sarkozy raised the retirement age to 62, despite weeks of protests. Dover-Calais ferries hit by French strike action French plan to raise pension age by two years to 64
