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The movement combines students' demands for teachers and repaired schools with union and Yellow Vest anger over living costs and the 2027 budget.
Demonstrations that began at a Paris high school on September 17 have been followed by protests in Spain, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Albania. Reporters and analysts describe shared grievances but separate, uncoordinated movements.
A protest at a high school near Paris in mid-September spread to hundreds of schools, then merged with union and Yellow Vest protests over living costs.
Police used tear gas and water cannon on October 17 in both cities, where students have been protesting since October 1 against rising education costs and cuts in the French-speaking school system.
