Go to Paris - look around and no problem figuring it out.
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Figuring what out?
Yeah the far right neo nazis are marching back across Europe!
The French have a long history of protest movements. -
It has become a 3rd world slum ….. by design
and French citizens have been tremendously suppressed for pointing out the obvious
many other Western European cities facing the same fate of insane leftist ideologies
Geroge Soros smiling ear to earComment
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All of Paris has "become a third world slum" Why is it a slum? because of all the brown people no doubt!
And the blame lies with the leftists and George Soros no less! LOL
What a crock of shit Furrow! When were you in Paris or any part of Europe?
You far right idiots need to smarten up and stop drinking the far right koolaid on social media
Why are people protesting across Europe?
School conditions, housing costs and the cost of living have brought demonstrators on to the streets in several countries Harry Taylor ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/profile/harry-taylor[/url]) Sun 18 Oct 2026 16.15 BST
Young people have been taking to the streets in countries across Europe, including Spain, France and Portugal ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/portugal[/url]), to protest over their unhappiness at the state of schools and the wider cost of living crisis.
In France, high school pupils have clashed with police in often violent protests ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/02/student-protests-shut-schools-across-france[/url]) over long hours, missing teachers, dilapidated classrooms and an opaque university admissions system. Pupils routinely miss months of teaching due to unfilled staff absences.
Other demonstrators have then joined student marches to voice their unhappiness about rising living costs, including over fuel prices after US bombing caused the effective closure of the strait of Hormuz.
The General Confederation of Labour (CGT), one of France’s largest unions, has backed the protests and called for lower prices, higher pensions and boosted wages.
French president Emmanuel Macron is nearing the end of his time in the Élysée Palace after serving two terms.
Over the Pyrenees in Spain ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/spain[/url]), activists took to the streets in September over housing prices.
The protests were triggered by the eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her home after an investment fund hiked her rent by 230%. Maricarmen Abascal died a fortnight later after being admitted to hospital.
Protesters have called for lower rents, an end to evictions and a ban on investment funds buying property.
Similar pleas were made across the Iberian border in Portugal on Saturday, with hundreds gathering in central Lisbon. ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/18/lisbon-milan-protests-housing-living-costs[/url])
Portuguese housing prices rose by 124% between 2015 and 2024, roughly twice as fast as the EU average, according to official data.
Squeezed household budgets were also at the centre of marches in Milan.
A march on Saturday began peacefully but ended with masked rioters throwing stones, paving blocks and other objects at riot police and setting fire to barricades made from bar tables.
Meanwhile, protests in Albania ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/albania[/url]) against the prime minister, Edi Rama, entered their sixth day on Sunday.
Demonstrators have said they are unhappy with perceived corruption, a lack of jobs and poor education standards.
When did protests start?
The education protests in France began in late September, a week after the start of the school year.
However, demonstrations have since intensified, reaching a high point on Saturday.
Saturday was also the first day of cost of living protests in Italy, Portugal and Belgium.
In Albania, protests have been taking place since the summer, triggered by a luxury coastal development backed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Have they led to any changes?
In France, the government has said it will deploy 3,000 more substitute teachers to deal with shortages, and include students in decision-making for schools.
It also scrapped plans to increase some university registration fees, which it had announced for next year’s budget.
Fuel protests in mid-September led to an announcement by the Élysée that the government would increase petrol subsidies for certain industries.
Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, attempted to pass emergency housing legislation that would have protected tenants in the rental market.
The legislation’s defeat at the hands of right and far-right parties in Congress led him to call an early election for 29 November, as he told the public he needed a “broader progressive majority” to get new reforms through.
Is there any sense it will end?
Macron will give a televised address on Sunday night after holding a crisis meeting with key ministers.
His interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, appeared to signal the French government was not willing to concede further, as he blamed “far left” protesters and “criminals who looted and ransacked” buildings across France.
The country will go to the polls in April 2027.
The protests in Spain could end before the election if the government can get at least some of its housing decrees passed by congress’s permanent council, a special body that operates when parliament is not in session. Both Sánchez’s socialists and the conservative People’s party have promised to build more homes and focus on housing if they win next month’s election.
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