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Chirac pressed as protests mount |
2006-03-30 |
![]() In a letter to Chirac, France's five biggest unions urged him to order a fresh reading of the law, without youth job contract measures which allow employers to sack at will workers under 26 at any stage in a two-year trial period. "We ask you, Mr President, to appreciate how much the current crisis is a source of exasperation and tensions in the country," they wrote. Aides said Chirac, who cancelled a trip to Le Havre planned for Thursday to stay in Paris and monitor the crisis, would speak out in the coming days. An announcement from the Elysee Palace early on Wednesday said that Chirac will speak publicly on the CPE soon, but it did not say when or give any indication of which way he is leaning. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 ...to stay in Paris and monitor the crisis... It wouldn't be like Chirac to actually do something. |
Posted by: DoDo 2006-03-30 12:53 |
#1 You spend years attacking "Anglo-Saxon" capitalism as the planet's greatest evil. Then you implement a mildly Anglo-Saxon reform. What the hell did Chiraq and de Villepin think was going to happen? It's like the permissive parents I knew as a kid. At some point they always decided that they had to discipline their little monsters. Then all hell broke loose. |
Posted by: 11A5S 2006-03-30 10:13 |