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Encore le CPE

Richard Martineau

Un autre texte très critique sur les manifs anti-CPE en France.

Extrait:

"Here comes the French Revolution again. While responding to the cycle of violence by Muslim youth throughout France last year, the government also tried to address one of the underlying problems: the lack of jobs for young people in poor areas. The government recognized that with France's current economy, hiring an individual is comparable to marriage because of the difficulty of severing the relationship once established. Indeed, in France as well as much of Europe, it is easier to divorce one's spouse than fire an employee.

The French government's response to this bizarre situation was to enact a law making it easier to fire recently hired young people during their initial period of employment. The concept was completely meritorious, namely, to make it easier for employers to hire the previous unemployed and ease the economic plight in poor Muslim areas throughout the country. The response to this law ignited the protests, stunning those in the French government who thought they were doing something worthwhile.

The law has now been rescinded, but the problem will not go away. Flushed with their success, the protestors have vowed to continue their disruptions, although they no longer have a clear objective.

College students began the protests. This in itself is fairly surprising because most of those in college will not have trouble getting jobs when they graduate. Many of the protesters were from middle- or high-income families who have an interest in a stable economy."

(Merci à P. Caza)