ফ্রান্সের শরতুত জটিলতা: হড়তাল এবং আর্থিক অস্থিরতা

France is engulfed in a cascade of disruption — striking public workers, barricaded high schools, blocked ports, and budget paralysis. Spiraling bond rates near 5 percent signal investor fears of a financial crisis. Teachers and public workers plan rallies against proposed wage freezes as students blockade schools protesting underfunding.

Police clash with youth amid tear gas as hundreds of schools close and dozens damaged. The unrest traces to France's two-decade struggle to fund its state, worsened by high borrowing costs and political uncertainty ahead of next spring's presidential election. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen leads in polls, threatening to unseat President Emmanuel Macron.

Economists caution France won't face a Greece-style crisis thanks to EU support, but bond markets warn the situation is unsustainable. Jean-Yves Camus notes 'fin de règne' — the end of Macron's reign — as the government lacks plans for the coming months. The crisis echoes 2018-2020 yellow-vest protests, reignited by soaring oil and gas prices from the Iran war.

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