"Structural problems" with France's urban policies, wed with "long-term neglect of the country's impoverished suburbs," is being blamed for the gradually intensifying, and now international, riots. BBC; Guardian; New York Times; earlier.
this article lays out de Villepin's response and proposals, of which at least addresses the issue of immigration and racial ghettoization, but slips around the issue of Islam, and France's less than open embrace of it, the main religion of the 'unrest'.
"# A tripling of state scholarships in poor areas, and increased spending on training schemes for under-achieving young people. Some 150,000 children, mainly from immigrant families, are leaving school without any qualifications
Firefighters tackle a burning bus in Toulouse
Mr de Villepin said the priority was to restore calm and stop violence
# A lowering to 14 of the age when children wanting to quit school can begin an apprenticeship; this idea was at once criticised by some teachers' leaders
# More company job training schemes in problem areas. Immigrants with a college degree complain they rarely even get job interviews because of blatant discrimination
# An urban renewal programme, re-building districts damaged by the riots and building more humane living environments
# More, unspecified, sanctions to counter social discrimination of all kinds"
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this article lays out de Villepin's response and proposals, of which at least addresses the issue of immigration and racial ghettoization, but slips around the issue of Islam, and France's less than open embrace of it, the main religion of the 'unrest'.
"# A tripling of state scholarships in poor areas, and increased spending on training schemes for under-achieving young people. Some 150,000 children, mainly from immigrant families, are leaving school without any qualifications
Firefighters tackle a burning bus in Toulouse
Mr de Villepin said the priority was to restore calm and stop violence
# A lowering to 14 of the age when children wanting to quit school can begin an apprenticeship; this idea was at once criticised by some teachers' leaders
# More company job training schemes in problem areas. Immigrants with a college degree complain they rarely even get job interviews because of blatant discrimination
# An urban renewal programme, re-building districts damaged by the riots and building more humane living environments
# More, unspecified, sanctions to counter social discrimination of all kinds"
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Urban curfews and suburban lock-downs: BBC and BBC.
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