March 20, 2006

A FRENCH SURRENDER, WHAT ARE THE ODDS?:

Chirac may back down over job law backlash (Colin Randall, 20/03/2006, Daily Telegraph)

President Jacques Chirac was under pressure from the threat of a general strike over France's new employment law.

The unrest could force his prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, to perform a humiliating climb-down.


Hard to believe them capable of being humiliated any more.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 20, 2006 8:38 AM
Comments

Where's the money coming from?

Posted by: erp at March 20, 2006 9:39 AM

They won't back down on this one. That's my prediction.

Posted by: Amos at March 20, 2006 10:58 AM

And the Maginot Line will hold....

Posted by: oj at March 20, 2006 11:02 AM

Actually the Maginot Line did hold. There were still French troops in the fortifications when the German armor had moved south of the Seine.

Posted by: Earl Sutherland at March 20, 2006 11:28 AM

Yes, so it held the French, just not the Germans.

Posted by: oj at March 20, 2006 12:43 PM
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