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Europe
Street protests to follow occupation of Sorbonne
2006-03-14
Trade unionists and students protesting against youth unemployment vowed to hold street demonstrations this week after riot police fired teargas and stormed the Sorbonne in Paris at 4am on Saturday, ending a three-day occupation.
The officers dragged out 200 students who had taken over the university for the first time since 1968. The prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, planned to defend his "first employment contract", which gives employers the right to let staff go after two years, and which sparked the protest. The Sorbonne will shut for a week to be cleaned.
Posted by:Seafarious

#6  Interesting how the students aren't burning cars and nurseries like the "other" protesters in and around Paris.
Posted by: Icerigger   2006-03-14 19:26  

#5  "We have to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!"
Posted by: mojo   2006-03-14 16:16  

#4  Last Sunday we were listening radio in the car when we heard: "A million demonstrators against the First Employment Contract"

-My better half with an angry voice: "A million for a matter of money and only ten thousand for Illam Halimi" (the Jew who was totured and killed two weeks ago)

-Myself: And Zero for Freedom of Experession.
Posted by: JFM   2006-03-14 14:42  

#3  Dominique de Villepin

maybe just curious knows?

is it a man or woman?

Posted by: RD   2006-03-14 13:24  

#2  My apologies to the honourable Prime Minister. My inadvertent misspelling of his name was a not very nice pun. I'll try to be more careful.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-14 12:14  

#1  It would be nice if P.M. de Villepain shows the steel of his purchased family name and pushes through this initiative. France, even more than Germany, is holding back the EU. And so long as the EU wallows in its self-made economic mess, that long will expansionist plans of the Islamofascists continue with little meaningful opposition, yet another defeat welcomed by the nihilists.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-14 12:12  

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