Three weeks in the street, three lists. The pupils want places and teachers, the Yellow Vests enough to live on, the unions pay rises. Here are the demands, the ones that got an answer and the others.
This morning, at the school gates, Pierre Sourzat and the Lycéens! movement are blockading with a short list: Parcoursup, the admissions platform, rebuilt or scrapped, absent teachers replaced, schools renovated, the right to protest without rubber bullets. The students have costed their ten demands at 10 billion euros, including 250,000 university places. The government answered on 26 October, four measures, opposite. “Almost nothing,” says Pierre Sourzat.
On Saturday, 320,000 people by the interior ministry’s count, nearly 500,000 by the organisers’, marched calmly. We were there. Flowers in Guéret, lists on cardboard, and a week that begins this morning.
We walked through the Paris march on Saturday, between the Porte de Bagnolet and the Porte de Charenton. Calmer than a week earlier, calmer than what was shown of it that evening. The ministry counted 291 marches and 320,000 people, 70,000 of them in Paris, 22% fewer than on 24 October; the organisers say nearly 500,000. In Guéret, marchers handed flowers to shopkeepers.
On Tuesday, Americans renew the House, a third of the Senate and 36 governors. The Democrats lead by eight points; Donald Trump, at 37% approval, has promised a million dollars “against fraud”.
On Tuesday 3 November, two years after Donald Trump’s election, the United States renews all 435 seats of the House, 35 of the 100 in the Senate and 36 governorships. The Democrats lead by eight points; the president’s approval hovers around 37%.
GDP fell 0.1% this summer, after zero in the spring and −0.2% this winter. Elsewhere, 5.4 billion euros vanished from Binance in twenty minutes, and the Assembly invented a tax per gigabyte.
On Friday, Insee, the statistics office, put a figure on what everyone feels at the till: gross domestic product fell 0.1% in the third quarter, after zero in the second and −0.2% in the first. Three quarters without growth, while the euro zone grows 0.6%. “The French economy has stalled,” admitted Roland Lescure, who swears it “will hit the wall” without the 2027 budget, voted on tomorrow.
On Saturday night, in Diamniadio, Africa opened its first Olympic Games, the Youth Games, 2,700 athletes until 13 November. Two more pieces of news from the continent, one hoped for, one feared.
The flame arrived on Friday evening at the Place de la Nation in Dakar, in the hand of Omar Sy. French-Senegalese, ambassador of the Games, he did not hide his pride: “It is a very fine window for sport, for Africa, for young people and for Senegal in particular.” On Saturday, at the Abdoulaye Wade stadium in Diamniadio, president Bassirou Diomaye Faye declared open the Youth Olympic Games, the first in Africa, before Kirsty Coventry, the president of the IOC.
Pupils: Parcoursup replaced in 2028, classes of 28 from 2027, “almost nothing”.
€10bn
Yellow Vests: a decent living, a ban on rubber-bullet launchers, a national conference. No answer so far. Unions: pay, minimum wage, pensions. “The strike must take over” on Thursday.
Midterms on Tuesday: 435 House seats, 35 in the Senate, 36 governors, Democrats at +8.
+8
Serbia: the students won on 25 October, their supporters are cleaning Belgrade. Bulgaria: presidential election yesterday, a tight duel between the pro-Russian incumbent and a former prime minister.
GDP at −0.1% in the third quarter, “the economy has stalled” for Roland Lescure.
−0.1%
Binance: 5.4 billion euros stolen in twenty minutes, North Korea accused by the FBI. Diesel, gas, pensions, parcels, evictions: what changed yesterday.
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
