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Wednesday, June 11, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:50 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Blockage on Retirement, Advances on Education. So retirement negotiations remain stalled. "Advances" are, as the TurkeyBlog predicted, capitulations. Which does not, in your humble correspondent's opinion, bode well for France getting real retirement reform. We'll see where things come out but it looks like the Raffarin government just chose impotence over challenging the education unions to really stand for education.
Le Figaro: Raffarin holds strong; Sarkozy demined. Says Le Figaro, Raffarin did well in making his case for retirement reform at the Assembly. As for Interior Minister Sarkozy, the verb déminer refers to clearing a minefield, but it is not clear at this time if that means he has been defused or the situation has been defused for him. A little of each, I reckon, which, as I said, may not bode well, at least in the view of those who hoped France would at long last take its situation seriously.
Ouest-France: The "War" of the Bac Will Not Take Place. Because the government buckled on decentralization and the education unions said they wouldn't walk out of the Bac after all. The title, incidentally, is a silly reference to Giradoux's The Trojan War Will Not Take Place.
Libé: Retirement: The Street Marches Before the Doors of Parliament.
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