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Thursday 23 September 2010

More strike action in France to defend retirement age‏

Today French unions are staging another day of mass street protests and strikes in opposition to President Sarkozy's plan to hike the retirement age to 62, a key plank of the French Government’s austerity linked reforms. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11395363
A survey carried out for the CGT union and published Tuesday in the newspaper L'Humanite said that 70 percent of French people are opposed to raising the retirement age.
http://www.europe1.fr/Politique/Retraites-70-de-Francais-contre-la-reforme-273346/