French MPs vote out 35-hour week
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French MPs back a controversial plan to relax the country's 35-hour working week.
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<img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20071024/capt.fc5e5224d7d04d70afc3ea2ce8d0e555.france_environemnt_par101.jpg?x=100&y=130&sig=OCqHdDExdgc.WJ6j9o.h5Q--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="Cars line up on the highway just outside Paris, Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007. France's government began national talks Wednesday aimed at changing the way the French treat the environment, as part of the president's bid to put the country in the forefront of the fight against global warming. The European Parliament proposed tighter emissions limits for car makers but more time to reach them as part of plans to fight global warming. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) \
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Campaigning drew to a close Friday for the first round of French parliamentary elections, in which right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to win a resounding majority for his ambitious programme of reforms.
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An MP's call for compulsory counselling and a "cooling off" period before abortions is defeated.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a strong, if reduced, parliamentary majority in hand, plans to waste no time in rolling out his ambitious and contested programme of economic reforms.
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The Conservative leader's call came in a speech on Wednesday night, hours ahead of a visit to the UK by the French leader.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The European Union head office this week proposed redefining how working hours are counted under the bloc's maximum 48-hour workweek law and stopping companies in Britain from abusing an "opt-out" to the law.
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The French parliament discusses a tough crime bill amid a row over new Justice Minister Rachida Dati.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is  expected to win a huge parliamentary majority to help him push  through tax and labor reforms when voters cast ballots for the  fourth time in eight weeks in a run-off election on Sunday.
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Â· Support fading on Labour benches, survey suggests  Â· Existing 28-day limit works well, says DPP
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French President Jacques Chirac's ruling UMP party could lose its outright majority in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, in partial elections being held Sunday.
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Wrangling in Parliament over a possible ban on hunting with dogs is entering what could be its final week.
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Russian Orthodox-Catholic relations, France's 35-hour working week and Germany's peacekeeping role feature in today's review
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Leading presidential hopeful Segolene Royal described France's controversial 35-hour work week -- one of the shortest in Europe -- as a major step forward, adding that any revisions to the law must be negotiated with unions.
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BRUSSELS The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to water down the rules that govern maximum working hours for employees, bowing to pressure from business and from Eastern European members of the EU seeking to catch up with their richer western
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Polls opened Sunday in the second round of France&#39;s parliamentary elections, with some 35 million registered voters choosing National Assembly deputies in the 467 constituencies where there was no winner in the first round a week ago.
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French President Jacques Chirac's ruling UMP party risks losing its outright majority in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, when a third of its seats are renewed in elections Sunday.