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.

A sell-off in French government bonds that spread into broader Eurozone markets this month has lured big investors to “bottom fish” among beaten-down assets including Italian bonds and corporate debt, on a bet that contagion fears are overdone.

Nationwide protests across France continued for a third week as demonstrators rallied against poor school conditions.

France prepares for a day of protests in support of students who’ve been demanding more investment in education.

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.

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.

Hundreds of thousands of French high school students have taken to the streets to protest against dilapidated buildings and teacher shortages.