Cost-of-living protests hit Germany and France on Halloween; France deploys 70,000 police
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Street protests over living costs and weak public services are expected to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Saturday (Halloween), The Guardian reports, after weeks of sometimes violent student demonstrations in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania and France. In Germany, the loose alliance Gen Z regelt has called supporters into more than 30 cities to demand more spending on schools, climate protection and housing and to oppose a return to mandatory military service; by Friday more than 160,000 people had registered to attend. [1]
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- Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween
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