巴黎，10月9日——法国学生工会周五誓言将继续抗议。此次抗议行动在巴黎精英大学的支持下日益扩大，据法国教育部称，全国仍有141所学校处于关闭状态。
PARIS, Oct 9 - French student unions vowed on Friday to keep up protests after scoring their first win in a campaign that is increasingly supported by Paris's elite universities, with 141 schools still shut around the country, according to the education ministry.
抗议活动已进入第三周，并逐渐演变为更广泛的运动。一些大学生也加入其中，对所谓“功能失调的教育体系”表达愤怒，而法国预算危机引发的削减开支更使问题雪上加霜。
The protests, now in their third week, have snowballed into a wider movement, with some university students weighing in to express their anger over what they call a dysfunctional system, worsened by spending cuts spurred by France's budget crunch.
这场动荡给政府带来了挑战：政府必须在增加教育投入与控制公共债务之间取得平衡，同时也存在重新引发街头抗议的风险——历史上，这类抗议曾迫使法国领导人放弃紧缩政策。学生与教师工会已呼吁下周二再次举行全国性的学校罢工。
The unrest poses a challenge for the government, which must balance demands for more education spending with the need to rein in public debt, and risks rekindling the kind of street protests that have historically forced French leaders to retreat on austerity measures. Student and teacher unions have called for another round of nationwide school strikes next Tuesday.
BFM电视台报道，周五上午，警方清除了位于巴黎市中心、法国顶尖法学院阿萨斯大学（Assas University）的封锁。附近的精英工程学校巴黎矿业学校（Mines Paris）也遭到封锁干扰。
Police cleared a blockade at Assas university, France's top law school, in central Paris on Friday morning, BFM TV showed. Nearby, elite engineering school Mines Paris was also disrupted by blockades.
以保守著称的私立大学天主教学院（Institut Catholique）在其网站上表示，由于校园被封锁，将转为远程教学。
The Institut Catholique, a private university known for being particularly conservative, said on its website it would switch to remote classes due to a blockade of its campus.
学生工会将周四晚间政府的承诺视为他们首次真正的胜利：政府承诺将派遣约3000名已具备完全资质但尚未入职的教师，以填补师资空缺——这也是抗议者的主要诉求之一。
Student unions hailed what they see as their first real win, after the government late on Thursday pledged to send some 3,000 teachers, who are fully qualified but have not yet started work, to fill staffing gaps, one of the protesters' main grievances.
高中学生工会成员马里乌斯·梅斯尼尔（Marius Mesnil）在接受法国信息电台（Franceinfo）采访时表示，这一让步表明学生继续抗议是值得的。
That concession shows it is worthwhile for the students to continue their protests, Marius Mesnil, from a high school student union, told Franceinfo radio.
他补充说：“我觉得简直不可思议，我们竟然要封锁数百所高中，才换来一个教师空缺计划。”
"I find it crazy we need to block hundreds of high schools just to get a vacancy plan," he added.
法国教育部长爱德华·热弗雷（Edouard Geffray）向电视台TF1表示，该措施将立即生效，并将耗费“数千万欧元”。
The measure is effective immediately and will cost "several dozen million euros", Education Minister Edouard Geffray told broadcaster TF1.
市场密切关注政府应对抗议活动的举措。在负债高企的法国，街头愤怒情绪过去常常通过增加政府开支来平息。但这一次，法国庞大的养老金支出以及控制公共开支的必要性，使其几乎没有回旋余地。
MARKETS MONITORING GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO PROTESTS Investors are closely watching the government's next moves in a highly indebted country where street anger has often been tamed with more state spending. This time, France's gigantic pension outlays and its need to rein in public spending leave little room for manoeuvre.
运营巴黎证券交易所的欧洲交易所（Euronext）负责人斯特凡·布日纳（Stephane Boujnah）表示，巴黎亟需做出艰难抉择以削减债务，而这一问题尤其受到年轻一代的关注。
Stephane Boujnah, the head of Euronext, which runs the Paris stock market, said Paris urgently needed to make tough choices to bring down its debt, which he said was of particular interest for younger generations.
他在接受RMC广播电台采访时表示：“我们究竟在向自己的孩子要求怎样的牺牲？因为我们即将给他们留下一个复杂的局面。如果我们希望他们能够自主做出选择——如果我们希望为高中生解决问题——那么或许我们需要减少一些养老金支出，以便能拿出更多资金用于孩子们。”
"What sacrifice are we asking of our own children? Because we’re going to leave them with a complicated situation, and if we want them to be able to make their own choices — if we want to solve the problem for high school students — well, maybe we need to spend a little less on pensions so that we have a little more money for the children," he told RMC radio.
根据法国教育部的数据，法国公立高中近10%的教学课时无人授课，这促使越来越多富裕家庭放弃公立教育，转而选择私立学校。
Nearly 10% of teaching hours are unstaffed at French state high schools, according to education ministry figures, prompting a growing number of wealthier parents to abandon the public sector in favour of private schooling.
法国内政部表示，周四有71500人在巴黎及其他地区走上街头。尽管大多数抗议活动保持和平，但部分地区的暴力事件有所增加。
The interior ministry said 71,500 people took to the streets in Paris and elsewhere on Thursday. While most protests were peaceful, violence has increased in some places.
内政部称，西部城市普瓦捷（Poitiers）的一所学校发生火灾，此外全国范围内还发生了多起破坏公物及袭击教育工作者事件。此次动荡并未局限于法国。
A fire broke out at a school in the western city of Poitiers, the ministry said, adding there were some other instances of vandalism and attacks against education staff throughout the country. The unrest has not been limited to France.
在比利时，两大工会于周五发起全国性罢工，影响公共交通、学校及航空交通，以抗议政府计划中的预算削减以及不断上涨的生活成本。
In Belgium, two large labour unions were staging a national strike on Friday, impacting public transport, schools and air traffic, to protest against planned government budget cuts and the overall rising cost of living.
预计周五晚些时候，数万名抗议者将在布鲁塞尔举行大规模示威活动。
Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Brussels for a large demonstration later on Friday.