French to tackle work reform on full stomach
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Their new president wants to get the French to work harder to compete in global markets, but some traditions are likely to endure -- including long holidays, a kiss for colleagues in the morning, and a decent lunch.
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France is approaching a crossroads on the painful and devious road to economic and social reforms.
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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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Conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy was expected to bolster his parliamentary support on Sunday in an election that is crucial for his wide-ranging reform plans.
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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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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin makes a surprise call for democratic reform in Tunisia.
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The European Commission is to discuss changes to the Working Time Directive on Wednesday as it tries to limit the time spent at work.
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Health Secretary Alan Johnson is expected to set out how he wants to reform the "sick-note" culture.
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Hundreds of thousands of French workers haven taken to the streets, challenging France's conservative government over reforms it says are vital to make the country more competitive in the world economy.
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France's president unveils new economic reforms in a  command performance, but skeptics say he's short on detail
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The French Cabinet on Wednesday sent a bill to parliament calling for guaranteed minimum service in public transport during labor walkouts, despite opposition from the nation's unions.
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France proposes measures to ensure its Muslim prayer leaders speak French and understand the way of life.
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TWO independent economists are calling on the French government to do the unthinkable: remove the mountain of petty restrictions that limit entry to trades and professional services, from hairdressing to ...
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The French government is calling for tighter risk-control measures and a broad review of bank rules in response to losses from the trading scandal at SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is Thursday to unveil Phase II of his economic reform programme for France, outlining a road map to jolt the economy into higher gear before a congress of business leaders.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy meets union  leaders and employers on Wednesday to discuss sweeping social  and labor reforms planned for 2008, hoping to head off the  strikes that have sunk previous efforts to change France.
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French commuters struggled to work Thursday as public transport workers put President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform plans to the test with a 24-hour strike in defence of pension privileges.