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France protests: "There's a whole range of grievances at play"

France protests: "There's a whole range of grievances at play"
France 24 Sunday 18 October 2026, 13:16 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. France protests: "There's a whole range of grievances at play" Issued on: Share Is the anger in France driven more by declining living standards or by the perception that the economic burden is being distributed unfairly? We discuss this with our guest, Joseph Downing, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Aston University.
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