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Wednesday, May 28, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:06 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Raffarin determined; Unions disappointed. Which is to say that things have changed more and less than expected from yesterday. The government is hanging on. Can they keep it up? If so, it will be the biggest news since Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers. And potentially as important for facing some sanity upon France.
Le Figaro is feeding me lots of error messages but little text.
Libération: Raffarin lets go of nothing. Same subject as Le Monde.
Ouest-France: Raffarin: No pulling back from reforms.
So there you have it. Education and other unions are up in arms over retirement and more. The government is letting them walk out, letting them protest, letting them raise hell with the country and the economy. But it isn't giving in to the union demands, isn't begging the unions to accept all they're asking for and more to get a little peace. Raffarin and co., starting with François Fillon, are standing firm. And though the TurkeyBlog has had major problems with the régime's foreign policy, for this we salute them. Certainly, if France is ever to seriously compete with the US, it will need to work these reforms and the government seems as hell bent on pushing its agenda here as on the world stage. Bonne chance.
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