Between the Lines: Laissez-Faire Is Not an Option As France Says Adieu to Old Certainties
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THE grim public housing blocks of the Parisian suburbs were burning late last year as young immigrant anger erupted against perceived heavy-handed policing and dead-end unemployment.
The latest riots, however, are as much the work of mainstream French young people protesting at proposed new laws that would allow employers to dismiss workers under 26 without cause during their first two years in a job.See the full content of this document
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Between the Lines: Laissez-Faire Is Not an Option As France Says Adieu to Old Certainties
It has ignited the nation, and looks to be as much a deeply emotive issue of dignity as economic insecurity.
In other words, young people, many of them middle class and with lifestyles a thousand miles away from the soulless deprivation of the second-genera...See the full content of this document
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