French Students Protest for Third Week as Parliament Begins Budget Debate

TREE NEWS update: French high-school students are set to demonstrate for a third consecutive week, with a student-led march planned for Tuesday afternoon in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. The protests, organized by major student unions and teachers’ unions, peaked last Tuesday when more than 250,000 students demonstrated nationwide demanding higher education funding. Clashes have broken out sporadically, with nearly 7,000 arrests by police.