With a nationwide advertising campaign, the French government wants to get young people enthusiastic about the newly launched “universal national service”. In Paris she was unsuccessful. Instead of interested parties, there were protests.
It’s ten in the morning, the last day of April. In the park “André Citroën” in the middle-class XV. They have set up pavilions and umbrellas in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, all in blue, white and red. Slogans such as “Surpass yourself” or the hashtag #SNUjyvais – SNU, I’ll be part of it – flutter on blue banderoles.
What is meant is the Service National Universe, the so-called “universal national service” – a kind of basic training with which France’s youth are to be educated according to the values of the republic to become dutiful citizens. Brochures, quizzes and stickers are available at the promotional stand. Paris is the twelfth leg of the nationwide SNU information campaign, which is touring through 25 cities through June 7th.
Source: Stern
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