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FRANCE will push through its EU-mandated shake-up of state rail firm SNCF by decree, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced today.
The government wants to make the company more “efficient” before the railways are opened up to competition, as demanded by Brussels.
Predictably, that means attacks on workers’ terms and conditions.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’