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...March 27] is: Get over it. Job security no longer exists. I am an American who graduated from college in the early '90s when the U.S. economy was in a serious recession. I spent the next two years working as an unpaid intern. At least Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's "first employment contract" would offer graduates the equivalent of paid internships. The global marketplace is changing rapidly, and without employment flexibility, France will not be able to compete. People of my generation in the U.S. learned that we're the only ones who can secure our future. That would...
...worse deal. That's crazy! JAMES REID 24, attended high school in Paris; studied at Oxford University; legal intern in London I would not like to be in France at the moment. For an ambitious young person, it is a gloomy situation. I think that [ Dominique de] Villepin just went with his little trick, which is not going to solve the core problem. And I think that people realize that it is just another gimmick. If you are ambitious you want to be in a place where things are happening, where you can feel that there is electricity...
...within their first two years on the job. Thousands of students staging public sit-ins around the country booed as Chirac, speaking on TV, rejected their demands to repeal the law, then continued jeering as he ordered ruling conservatives in parliament to water down what Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin had intended to be his boldest reform. Chirac wants the probation period halved, and to require that bosses give a reason if they want to fire a young person. "Don't look for legal, economic or logical coherence in this - because there is none," says Dominique Reynié, professor...
...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 rarely-used executive privilege. The latter two options would mark political capitulation, for both de Villepin and his backer President Jacques Chirac, and "seriously undermine his leadership authority with the public only one year before the presidential election," says Stèphane Rozés, deputy director of the CSA polling agency...
...wake of the enormous protests across France today, Chirac cancelled planned trips out of Paris at the end of the week, when the key ruling is expected. If the courts rule in favor of the law - which for all intents and purposes would be against de Villepin - Chirac's protege could soon see his planned trip to the Presidential palace permanently cancelled...