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Since the beginning of April, the French first employment contract, an attempt to encourage the hiring of youth under 26 by reducing their employment protection, has been the law of the land. But if there is such a thing as a Pyrrhic compromise, President Jacques Chirac and the millions who...
For the nearly 11 years he's occupied the Elysée Palace, French President Jacques Chirac has promoted social and economic reform, yet shied away from the conflicts that invariably result. Last week he attempted another awkward balancing act after France saw more huge protests, some of them violent...
If the court does actually throw the law out, it would provide de Villepin a convenient way to defuse the crisis without backing down Once passed by parliament, laws can only be derailed if ruled unconstitutional, reversed by new legislation or if they are blocked by a president citing a...
National ambivalence about the new global order can be seen most clearly in France. In his first speech to the National Assembly last year after becoming French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin said, "Globalization is not an ideal; it cannot be our destiny." In the last few months, de Villepin...
"Ah, to breathe the fine air of France!" As he spoke in mock-heroic tones last week, Sayed Diakite, 19, a student from the southern suburbs of Paris, was smiling gleefully, and weeping at the same time. Like hundreds of other young people boxed in by riot police between the...