The student turmoil does not bear any resemblance to the `68 incidents, since it does not have any utopist undertones. They are worried about their future prospects. The problem is in France itself. France is in a terrible situation. The leftists, which protest the government today with students, and syndicates, also did not bring any solutions to these problems.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20060319&hn=31062

Youth joblessness stands at 23 per cent in France, and at 50 per cent among impoverished young people. The lack of work was blamed in part for the riots that shook France's depressed suburbs during the fall.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&a mp;cid=1142722231908&call_pageid=970599119419

Villepin looked set to stand firm, believing the law could significantly reduce unemployment, the top social issue, before presidential elections in 2007. Unemployment is the top political issue in France, where the national average is 9.6 percent and youth joblessness is double that. The rate rises to 40-50 percent in some of the poor suburbs hit by several weeks of youth rioting last autumn.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/03/19/french_government_set_to_stand_firm_desp ite_protests/

In many of the country's most deprived areas the rate is as high as 40-50 percent.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/fran-m17.shtml

It will do nothing to reduce the 23 percent youth unemployment rate, or the average of 8 to 11 years it takes to get permanent employment.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/fran-f06.shtml

Hicham, another student from the university, also spoke with the WSWS. "The CPE will soon affect me, as I will soon be exposed as a job seeker. With the CPE, the boss can fire you at any moment without giving a reason.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/fran-m18.shtml