| Author (Person) | Hall, Ben |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 29.1.09 |
| Publication Date | 29/01/2009 |
| Content Type | News |
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Features previewing and reporting that hundreds of thousands of French workers staged a one-day national strike on the 29 January 2009 calling for an end to job cuts, a reversal of their government’s reform programme and higher welfare payments to help soften the economic crisis. There were fears that the strike could mark the beginning of a broad-based anti-government movement in France. The government was already concerned by signs of radicalisation. Some features put the actions in France in a wider context of increasing social unrest in Europe highlighting recent incidents in Iceland, Greece, Bulgaria, Latvia and Lithuania |
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| Countries / Regions | France |
