AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoProtests and Policing: Around 320,000 people took to the streets across France for a third weekend of demonstrations over living costs, public services and police violence, according to the interior ministry; unions estimated nearly 500,000. Most marches were peaceful, but clashes followed in several cities, with police using tear gas and reporting hundreds of arrests. Student Mobilization: Student unions are calling for renewed school and university blockades from Tuesday and plan to join a strike and march on November 5, keeping pressure on President Emmanuel Macron’s government. Economic Pressure: Fitch moved France’s credit outlook to negative as the economy shrank 0.1% in the third quarter, citing weaker growth, higher borrowing costs and political division as obstacles to controlling public debt.
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