AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoStudent Protests: France’s biggest day of school demonstrations yet drew more than 250,000 people on Tuesday, with students demanding more teachers, smaller classes and safer, better-equipped buildings. Hundreds of schools were disrupted, and clashes led to thousands of arrests and injuries. Police Response: Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez suspended stun-grenade use at student protests after a 15-year-old lost his hand in Lens. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the government would present measures by the end of October and acknowledged students’ anger, while denying police had orders to confront them. Cost-of-Living Pressure: Lecornu also pledged to release 10 million barrels of diesel from reserves as fuel prices add to public frustration and pressure on France’s strained budget. Nobel Prize: French chemist Henri Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work explaining how one form of a molecule can dominate in nature, with implications for pharmaceutical production.
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