Students are taking to the streets over underfunding in education as the government seeks to find budget cuts to appease bond markets.

Fox News' Jeff Paul reports on escalating riots in France. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez and New York Post columnist Miranda Devine discuss factors driving the unrest.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday framed the mass student protests sweeping France as evidence of the country’s “out of control mass migration” and Islam, neither of which are consistent with protesters’ demands for better school conditions.

Not only does it now cost France more to borrow than it does Italy and Greece; a rising number of big French companies enjoy lower market interest rates than does the French state. Of all the G7 nations, it has suffered most from the debt sell-off triggered by the Iran war.

Chaos in schools, on the streets and in the markets is rooted in France’s struggles to fund its social welfare state, with a presidential election approaching.

Protesters are pushing the French government to boost spending even as bond investors pressure it to slash spending.

Nashville International Airport will add its second nonstop destination to a city in continental Europe next year, Air France announced on Oct. 8.

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers and the European Central Bank told France on Thursday to pass a 2027 budget to calm bond markets, as French borrowing costs hover at 25-year highs.