Dedicated Issues··Monday, November 9, 2026, 11:52 AM
Social unrest ahead of French elections: Protesters ‘don’t believe politics can achieve anything’
Annette Young is pleased to welcome Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics ECARES at Lancaster University. France’s 1.6% minimum-wage increase, in response to the countrywide protests, may offer a temporary reprieve from social unrest, but it does little to resolve the deeper political and institutional crisis confronting the country. According to Foucart,
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