On Wednesday, several thousand students took to the streets to protest what they called a broken promise. When politicians cut student grants, the demonstrators Politiken spoke with said, they are not just taking money from young people, but stripping away a margin of ease from an already pressured daily life.
Students take to the streets over a 'broken promise': »I very much feel let down by politicians«
»It always ends up hurting young people,« says Frida Beyer, one of the many thousands of students who took to the streets on Wednesday to protest cuts to student grants. Foto: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix
Signs reading »Invest in my brain« and »Black money, free student grants« filled the streets of Copenhagen on Wednesday, as several thousand students demonstrated against cuts to the state student grant.
From City Hall Square to Christiansborg Palace Square, students marched together to protest what they called the government’s »betrayal« in its new budget proposal.
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