Paris, May 01: Thousands of young job-seekers have once again taken to the streets in France to protest against high unemployment and job insecurity.
The protesters called on the French government to increase assistance to the unemployed youth and step up efforts to tackle housing shortages.
Accommodation in France has turned into a big problem for students. Unlike two decades ago, rents are too high and cheap hostels are not easy to find.
“For studying you have to pay for books and everything, it’s not only the admission, there are books and other things that go with the studying that are very hard to pay,” a young protester told a Press TV correspondent in Paris.
France’s world class state-run universities produce thousands of qualified job-seekers, but many of them fail to find a job.
Twenty five percent of the youths in France are unemployed, which is more than double the national average.
“It’s getting harder and harder for people here to live, so people have to move , this is what the whole thing is about here in France, politics are not giving solutions, we really feel like we people have to do it,” a protester said.
——–Agencies