France's school protests draw 250,000 as police fire tear gas in Paris
The Guardian reported that riot police fired tear gas as 250,000 people took part in protests by school students across France. Sky News reported tear gas against school protesters in Paris, and The Times ran an explainer on the reasons behind the protests. The Financial Times set the unrest alongside French bond market stress in a piece titled France: between the bond market and the barricades. The protests were already in the news the day before, when Sky News showed school protesters facing police.
France is the eurozone's second-largest economy and its bond market has been under pressure. Street protest makes any new savings plan harder to pass.
UK readers feel it mainly through the euro, the bond market and travel disruption.
Watch the size of the next march and the yield gap between French and German bonds, which is the market's measure of French political risk.
DailyDrop U.K. edition No. 2 · Morning · TUE., OCT. 6, 2026