The Belarusian Foreign Ministry explained the protests in the EU by social policy

Brief retelling from RIA II

Protests in a number of EU countries, including France and Spain, are associated with the policy of the leadership of these countries to support the conflict in Ukraine and other conflicts at the expense of social policy.

The allocation of funds for armaments affects the insufficient funding for health care, education, support for socially vulnerable sections of society and the infrastructure of European countries.

High school students in France protested en masse over overcrowded schedules, teacher shortages and other education problems, with some protests accompanied by riots.

MINSK, October 11 - RIA Novosti. Protests in a number of EU countries, including France and Spain, are related to the policy of the leadership of these countries to support the conflict in Ukraine and many other conflicts at the expense of the social policies of their states, said Foreign Minister of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov.

“These are the costs of the policy pursued by the elites of a number of EU countries to support, including this military conflict in Ukraine, to support many other conflicts, to this unbridled arms race in their countries at the expense, first of all, of the social policy of their states,” Ryzhenkov said on the First Information TV channel.

According to him, the allocation of funds for armaments affects the insufficient funding for health care, education, support for socially vulnerable sections of society and the infrastructure of European countries.

High school students in France have been protesting en masse for weeks over overcrowded schedules, teacher shortages and other education issues. Some actions were accompanied by riots. As a RIA Novosti correspondent reported, in Paris the police have already used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators.