France - This isn't just about pensions

Published on 19 October 2010

France

This isn't just about pensions

Frankfurter Rundschau

What with service stations out of petrol, protesters setting cars on fire, schools closed, the mass demonstrations against the pension reform are plunging France into chaos. But it’s not just about pensions: the people are up in arms about what many consider an unjust system.

 

France

Are things getting out of control?

Presseurop

The campaign against pension reform has provided a catalyst for other movements that are less easily controlled. Now that marching workers have been joined by huge numbers of secondary school students, the French press worries about a situation that could soon get out of hand.

 

Immigration

Europe's far from splendid isolation

El País

Five years after hundreds of migrants besieged the two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla remain symbols of the EU’s closed borders and closed minds, even of a global system of apartheid, say two academics.

 

Stability Pact

Devil is in the detail

Il Sole 24 Ore

 

Portugal

Pension reform can wait

Jornal de Negócios

 

Diplomacy

Letting Russia into the henhouse

Rzeczpospolita

 

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