3 Weeks of Intense Protests Reveal the True Face of 'Welfare State' France... "Europe Facing Severe 'Fiscal Issues,' Voters Likely to Turn to Far-Left and Far-Right"

[SBS News Briefing]

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■ Broadcast: SBS "News Briefing" Mon-Fri (14:00~15:20)
■ Host: Park Jin-ho, Editorial Writer
■ Guests: Cho Hong-sik, Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Soongsil University; Robin Deiana, TV personality from France
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● Issue Discussion

Robin Deiana / TV personality from France
"Regretful that media coverage focuses mostly on looting by French protesters"
"Large-scale protests in major cities... small-scale protests ongoing in small towns"
"Many students feel they have lost hope for the future"
"French university entrance system and gap between private and public schools spreading protests"
"France used to have a large centrist population, but polarization is expected to deepen starting from this election"
"France is a distant country, but these are issues that could also happen in South Korea"

Cho Hong-sik / Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Soongsil University
"Number of French protesters showing a decreasing trend"
"Protests started in poor educational environments... expanded into social inequality issues"
"European governments hold massive debts, causing protests to spread nationwide"
"Weakening of public services within Europe, pointing to government fiscal problems"
"Areas with poor educational environments overlap with places with high immigrant populations"
"Immigrants themselves did not instigate these protests"
"Likelihood of growing skepticism toward the eurozone in international markets"
"Europe and South Korea are in different situations... risky to view them as identical"
"It is significant that France's poor educational conditions were brought to light through the protests"

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