French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated this week that students' anger is being manipulated, and the radical left is exploiting the high school movement to gain an advantage in next year's presidential election. This follows three weeks of protests where thousands of students have blocked high schools and taken to the streets. Economist Anne-Laure Delatte believes that despite high borrowing costs for the French government and a divided parliament, France's economic situation is similar to the UK in 2023, rather than the Greek debt crisis of 2012, and France has the capacity to address its public debt issues through tax increases.