Σπίθα στην Αθήνα, φωτιά στο Παρίσι (και τη Σουηδία).

Ο Independent αναφέρεται στην επίθεση στο Γαλλικό Ινστιτούτο και συνδέει τα γεγονότα με κινητοποιήσεις μαθητών στη Γαλλία και νεαρών μεταναστών στο Μάλμο της Σουηδίας. Σύμφωνα με το άρθρο, ο Σαρκοζύ αποφάσισε να αποσύρει σχέδιο νόμου για μεταρρυθμίσεις στην παιδεία επειδή φοβήθηκε μην κολλήσουν οι Γάλλοι μαθητές ανυπακοϊτιδα από τους Έλληνες συνομήλικούς τους.

Ή μάλλον φοβήθηκε μήν ξανακυλήσουν... >XD

French lycée (sixth-form) students took to the street in their tens of thousands this week and last to protest against modest, proposed changes in the school system and the "natural wastage" of a handful of teaching posts. In other words, they were engaged in a typical French revolution of modern times: a conservative-left-wing revolt, not for change but against it. The lycée students are, broadly, in favour of the status quo in schools, although they admit the cumbersome French education system does not serve them well.

But behind the unrest lie three other factors: a deep disaffection from the French political system; a hostility to capitalism and "globalism" and the ever-simmering unrest in the poor, multiracial suburbs of French cities.

In Malmo on Thursday night, young people threw stones at police and set fire to cars and rubbish bins. This appears to have been mostly a local revolt by disaffected immigrant and second-generation immigrant youths, joined by leftist white youths, against the closure of an Islamic cultural centre. As in Greece and France, the Swedish authorities believe the troubles have been encouraged, and magnified, by political forces of the far left.

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The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, forced his education minister, Xavier Darcos, to delay, then abandon his planned reform of the lycée system this week. Why the change? Largely because of the events in Greece, French officials say. There was a heated debate in the Elysée Palace last weekend. One faction of advisers and ministers wanted to push ahead with the school reforms (already much watered down). Another faction was disturbed at signs that the lycée protests, although relatively limited, were spinning out of control.