France Prepares for Strikes
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Nicolas Sarkozy awaits the public sector disruption that could shape his future reforms  and presidency
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Scions of filmmakers are ready to strike again.
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France is poised to dispatch hundreds of troops Monday to support the international peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, confronting painful memories of the deadly 1983 bombing in Beirut and concerns about ...
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A 24-hour strike that could be extended began at 8 p.m. to protest plans by President Nicolas Sarkozy to overhaul early retirement plans for a limited group of public-sector workers.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy unveils plans to give French employers incentives to allow overtime.
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France is facing a "high and permanent" terrorist threat, the country's interior minister says.
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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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France was hit by transport chaos Thurday as unions challenged President Nicolas Sarkozy with a 24-hour strike, but the government vowed to stick by plans to overhaul pensions for hundreds of thousands in the public sector.
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Portugal braces for strikes as unions protest against reforms aimed at making the economy more competitive.
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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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Voting got under way on Saturday in some overseas French territories in the decisive round of parliamentary elections which are expected to hand President Nicolas Sarkozy a huge majority for his reform plans.
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Rail service resumes across much of France as a strike over pension reform winds down.
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Union workers at Alcatel-Lucent  called on Wednesday for a strike in France on February 15 to protest against the restructuring at the telecoms equipment provider as they expect more job cuts than announced.
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France faced a second day of paralysed public transport Friday as two rail unions continued to strike over planned pension reforms and services only slowly started to resume.
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ANGOULEME, France  - Everything must be done to avoid the prospect of war with Iran, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday, a day after his foreign minister said the country should prepare for that possibility.
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PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy's first real test after five months in office comes at rush hour Thursday, with a strike disrupting flights, trains around Europe and stripping Paris of public transport _ all because of anger over plans to trim some retirement packages.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has sprinkled the parched French economy with dozens of little enticements since his election in May, all paving the way for an assault on the crux of France's woes: the labor laws.