More chaos in France after the approval of the labor reform, harshly contested by workers and trade unions, and also by a large part of Parliament, so much so that the provision was passed thanks to the use of a special procedure which does not include debate in the classroom or voting. The mobilization has reached the eighth consecutive day, and after the blockade of the refineries and fuel depots, it now also sees the strike in 19 nuclear power plants (out of the 58 total in the country).
Next week Metro and bus stops in Paris and civil aviation: France is moving towards a blockade and Prime Minister Manuel Valls has defined the action of the CGT, the main French union leading the protests, as "irresponsible". However, the government also seems willing to take a few small steps backwards: Valls again said that withdrawing the reform "is not possible", admitting however that "we can always make changes, improvements". However, excluding the amendments to article 2, the most controversial point because it envisages making company agreements prevail over those of the category for holidays and working hours, even if the Finance Minister Michel Sapin, interviewed on a radio, had instead opened to this possibility: "Maybe it will be necessary to adjust article 2 on some points".
According to a survey carried out by the Elabe Institute for Bfm-Tv, 7 out of ten French people would like the contested law to be withdrawn “to avoid paralysis”. Until yesterday, images of motorists queuing in front of petrol stations for fear of running out of water dominated the media and all-news channels. Meanwhile, the interventions of the forces of order against the barricades are multiplying. Yesterday, at dawn, a new assault by the national police took place on a strategic depot blocked by about 80 CGT militants in Douchy-les-Minesin the north of the country. About twenty armored personnel carriers with riot police were mobilized for the operation, the third of its kind in two days. Almost simultaneously, protesters blocked the Normandy Bridge, which connects Le Havre - a port where blockades have been multiplying for days - to Honfleur. However, tensions are registered in all the big cities, from North to South.
