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...bill from the conservative government attempting to relax labor laws for young employees. Despite the remnants of Romanticism rooted in our young souls, the struggle of 2006 is mistaken in means and ends, just like the 1968 turned out to be. Last month, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin managed to create a First Employment Contract, which liberalizes employment for young adults up to 26 years old. The law only affects small companies, but promises a type of contract that can be broken by the employer any time within two years of hiring without an explanation. Unions, socialist representatives...
...Paris' Latin Quarter. This week?s escalating conflict doesn?t have the same breadth or resonance as the famed riots of May 1968, when French students dug up cobblestones and tossed them at the police. But the problems it presents to the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and what it says about France's continuing struggles to rein in its welfare state, are more than academic...
...code and allow companies to fire job-seekers under 26 within two years of hiring them, without giving cause or shelling out the restrictive severance payments usually due when an employee is laid off. Since those protections often make the country's employers wary of bringing on new hires, Villepin has made the "First Employment Contract" law the centerpiece of his effort to cut unemployment among 25-year-olds-and-less from its dismal rate of 22% - and as much as twice that much in the troubled cit?s of the "banlieues," the outlying suburbs (where many descendants of North African...
...Though recent French governments have a tradition of yielding before student protests, Villepin vows to remain firm. Some within his ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party - particularly those close to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a likely rival in next year?s presidential elections - have called for dialogue or even a suspension of the measure. But backing off would put Villepin, whose poll numbers have dipped steeply in the last month, on the defensive for the rest of his term. Whether he has to sweeten the deal somehow will become clear over the next few days: even high school...
...there's the problem. While everyone pays lip service to the idea of a common energy market, few individual countries are eager to see their national players swallowed up by outside predators. "The government's wish is clear: to defend our national interests," said French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin last week. Madrid is no different; late last month, Spain's Council of Ministers boosted its energy watchdog's veto powers over foreign takeovers. The regulator - stuffed full of government allies - might well scupper the German bid. Of course, some European governments dislike the idea of any familiar brand - from...