Riots in France

Goddamnit that's not my signature on the card !

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Glad I found the correct one so fast and didn't take one by the Empereor Navy's Admiral Surgeon or the Undersecretary of State for the Navy or ... - I've got a couple of those via Navy promotions from a granduncle Laughing

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In the future I will be very careful to avoid reference data or web site duels with relentless Westphalians.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Chirac just has made made one of the trickiest decision of his long political career.

Hoping I got it correctly, the French president said, he will sign the law if the government makes two changes:

"I ask the government to immediately prepare modifications over the probation period, which will be reduced to one year"
and
"The right to know the reasons of the dismissal will be registered in the new law".

So the law will be just watered a bit.

Told ya! (see page 33).....we now await the Gallic shrug, and the speech to the people.

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georgeob1 wrote:

In the future I will be very careful to avoid reference data or web site duels with relentless Westphalians.

You can put your mind at rest: I won't ask you to come with a witness to a certain place in Millennium Park at 5am on May 6. :wink:

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Lord Ellpus wrote:

Told ya! (see page 33).....we now await the Gallic shrug, and the speech to the people.

You talked to him before, confess. Laughing

The reactions are as to be foreseen: applaause from the one side, unbelievable shaking heads from the other (well, something similar).

And Sarkozy in between, suggesting that Chirac exactly did what he told before as being the best compromise.

On page 33

Lord Ellpus wrote:

.....a typical French compromise.

Which translate in French to "Tout cela montre bien que nos institutions ne fonctionnent pas bien." (François Sauvadet from the UDF - 'All this proves that our institutions don't work well.')

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Lots of demos after that tv-speech in France last night, but fortunately not much so much troubles as I feared.

Villepin will consider next steps with his cabinet on Monday and a new law is said to be introduced to the parliament shortly.

New strikes - supported by other European unions - and big demos will happen on April 4.

This reform of the reform only has one winner it seems: Sarkozy.

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New report from Walter -

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Lots of demos after that tv-speech in France last night, but fortunately not much so much troubles as I feared.

- and, from a few posts back

georgeob1 wrote:

I am very pleased to learn that Chirac will sign the law. Cutting the length of the proabationary period from two to one years is an important but not vital concession. I predict the demonstrations will diminish in intensity and the Villepin government will survive the storm. This will be good for France.

Apparently Both Lord Ellpus and I are more accurate predictors of French political developments than is Walter.

Walter Hintler wrote:

New strikes - supported by other European unions - and big demos will happen on April 4.

This reform of the reform only has one winner it seems: Sarkozy.

I believe this is Walters hope masquerading as a prediction. The French people have come out ahead in this as well. Very difficult to reform these Westphalian Social democrats.

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Perhaps you are right.

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Frontspage of today's Libération:

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Today, the Parisien got this on the frontpage:

62% of the French not convinced by Chirac

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The polls in detail (all from Parisen/Aujurd'hui en Frnce, Sunday April 2, 2006, frontpage, pages 2 + 3)

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"Affaibli" means "weakened"

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I'm still not sure if March 2006

will be to remember the same way as May 1968

(Besides, of course, the big personal difference that I followed this time the very start live in Paris myself :wink: )

I doubt that, though - this time, the students and pupils don't follow an ideological-revulotionary strategy.

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From Monday's The Australian (couldn't find it online [elsewhere]):

Quote:

Students add new twist to an old French story

France's protesting youths and workers have much in common with the far Right, writes Keelin McDonell

source: The Australian (print version), Monday April 3 2006, page 15

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Villepin told Le Journal du Dimanche in an interview published today

that "There is misunderstanding and incomprehension about the direction of my action. I profoundly regret it." He admitted he made some political mistakes managing the controversy but said he would not resign.

AP: De Villepin Admits Errors in Handling Law

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The First Employment Contract (CPE) was officially published today in France's Official Journal gazette after being signed by President Jacques Chirac.

AFP: CONTROVERSIAL LAW ON YOUTH JOBS OFFICIALLY PUBLISHED IN FRANCE

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What are your predictions now, Walter? My impression is that the government has won a partial victory. While the coalition of unions and students may be unbroken, the civil disorder they caused will likely cost them som sympathy from other elements of the populace. Moreover the general problem of unemployment; 10% oveerall, 22% among the young, and 40% among moslem youth remains - and this coalition of the backward and the immature has nothing at all to offer in addressing this serious problem, which, unsolved will corrode vital elements of French society and economy.

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Certainly the government and the president won a partial victory.

And it truely might cost them some sympathy from other elements of the populace - but this is a minority of French.

Thus, it will last some time until this gap can be closed.

And such won't work out 'silently'.

The general problem of unemployment will see some more similar - in my eyes unsuitable - attempts to solve it.
We (= countries with same problems) will finally have to accept the situation or change EVERYTHING totally.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

We (= countries with same problems) will finally have to accept the situation or change EVERYTHING totally.

I agree. You are faced with basic contradictions. (1) Low birthrates and the economic need to import workers; (2) The already difficult and universal problem of assimilation made more difficult by European traditions of cultural nationalisn; (3) Social Welfare systems that sustain high unemployment and discourage investment and job creation.

I believe Europe faces the necessity of many changes in these areas.

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