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Saturday, October 3, 2026
FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 409*TIGHT BELT 2027 BUDGET MORE SALES, RICH TAXES, LESS CORPORATE TAXES*SCHOOL PROTESTS*GOV'T WORKERS STRIKE*LE PEN LEADS POLLS*ANTISEMTISM ALLEGATION NATIONAL RALLY PRES*YELLOW VESTS TODAY*RAUCOUS DISTRACTION*
(NEWS, COMMENT AND ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)
On Thursday the 2027 French budget proposal put on the table. The new budget seeking to reach a five percent of GDP deficit target but not expected to get there.
That is being projected to materialize in 2028.
Mainstream media was spinning the seriousness of France's budget and debt situation in the months leading up to Thursday's announcement.
The need to freeze government employees' salaries stirring up a Tuesday strike action by some government workers ahead of the budget announcement.
43 billion Euros (48.39 billion Dollars) in 'recovery measures' thrown into mix to reduce government spending. The government touting the notion of 54 billion Euros (60.67 billion Dollars) of effort to cut spending.
The tax structure includes more Value Added Tax (sales) taxation plus income taxes targeting 'the rich' with tax breaks restricted so that those in higher income brackets pay a minimum 20 percent income tax.
The pro-business taxation pattern of President Emmanuel Macron is also reflected in the 2027 budget with corporate taxes cut by 1.8 billion Euros (2.026 billion Dollars).
18 billion Euros (20.26 billion Dollars) of additional tax revenue is projected...
Teachers and students shutting down hundreds of schools across France this week to protest crowded conditions and lack of funding.
Authorities cracking down with thousands of arrests as hundreds were wounded in clashes between protesters and police.
Many minors arrested with the government pointing to damage caused by the protests and what Interior Minister Laurent Nunez characterized as 'violence against agents of public authority'.
On Friday political leaders opting to close 400 schools to prevent violence but demonstrations continued to pop up.
A student union saying the government fell short in providing answers to demands so protests are set to resume again on Tuesday.
Many on the Right and in the Center of French politics blame Leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon who is running for President next year. Melenchon endorsed the student protest movement before it began.
Mr. Melenchon urging peaceful protests after violence broke out.
On Friday National Rally (RN) Vice-President Sebastien Chenu urged a return to classes asking students to wait until next year's election promising that in seven months there will be 'big changes' adding 'we will turn the page on Macronia'...
On Tuesday a nationwide strike and day of protest by government workers concerned about the government's budget plans freezing them out of salary increases.
Firefighters in the vanguard of the protest involving tens of thousands on the streets of Paris and hundreds of thousands on the streets nationwide.
POLITICS THIS WEEK AN ACCUSATION OF ANTISEMITISM LEVELED AT NATIONAL RALLY PRESIDENT JORDAN BARDELLA.
MR. BARDELLA DENYING THE ALLEGATION AND FILING SUIT.
BARDELLA IS A POTENTIAL NOMINEE FOR PREMIER IF MARINE LE PEN WINS NEXT APRIL'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
MR. BARDELLA DOGGED BY THE ALLEGATIONS WITH INVESTIGATIVE WEBSITE 'MEDIAPART' MAKING THE ALLEGATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK.
THEN ON THURSDAY IT RELEASED MORE DETAILS INCLUDING SCREENSHOTS OF ALLEGED 2013 TO 2015 SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS BY MR. BARDELLA...REUTERS STORY...
JORDAN BARDELLA MADE A HIGHLY PUBLICIZED APPEARANCE IN ISRAEL AT AN ANTISEMITISM CONFERENCE LAST YEAR.
IN THE FACE OF THE ALLEGATION ISRAEL'S DIASPORA AFFAIRS MINISTER AMICHAI CHIKLI DEFENDING BARDELLA.
MR. CHIKLI SAYING 'A MAN IS NOT SEALED AT 17. WHAT MATTERS IS THE 15 YEARS THAT FOLLOWED, AND THE MAN HE BECAME'...Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NEW POLLING FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOWING MARINE LE PEN THE CLEAR FAVORITE.
SHE DEFEATS LEFTIST JEAN-LUC MELENCHON 69 TO 31 PERCENT AND CENTRIST EDOUARD PHILIPPE BY 57 TO 43 PERCENT.
THOSE MEN THE MOST LIKELY SECOND PLACE FINISHERS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF VOTING TO LE PEN.
THE NATIONAL RALLY (RN) NOW WITH AN OFFICIAL SENATE GROUP.
THE PROCESS OF ELECTING A NEW FRENCH SENATE GIVING THE RN AND ITS ALLIES A GROUP OF AT LEAST 15 SENATORS IN THE 348-SEAT UPPER CHAMBER...The Times Of India-MSN Story
As for the Yellow Vests movement in the midst of the outbreak of student protests there is hope in the call for a national protest two weeks from today on October 17th.
This afternoon's protest video from Paris opens with a newspaper displayed on the screen headlining this week's school protest movement.
The video shows a small group of people with spectators and bystanders on the street...
THE SCHOOL PROTESTS PROVIDED A RAUCOUS DISTRACTION FROM THE AUSTERITY BUDGET OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON WITH ITS CORPORATE TAX CUTS AND WAGE FREEZES FOR GOVERMENT WORKERS.
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