Implementation of these laws has been negotiated company by company, leaving workers in many enterprises with a poor relationship of forces and more vulnerable than others. The Jupp government lost the 1997 legislative elections to a coalition led by the Socialist Party alongside the French Communist Party and the Greens. The Rally for the Republic has not recovered from its defeat. The right-wing parties are in disarray as well. Our structural handicaps are weighing us down.
French competitiveness requires strong moves forward.
The police announced January 25 that they were reactivating the Vigipirate plan following a bombing attributed to a Corsican nationalist group. Derek Jeffers is an auto assembly worker and member of the CGT at the Peugeot auto plant in Poissy.