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Something stirs: France. (demonstrations)

The Economist (US) | March 12, 1994 | Copyright

IT HAS nothing to do with spring, but things are warming up in France. A new impatience and restlessness are in the air. The students and the unions are on the march again. After a year of conservative rule, the French are no longer willing to go on giving Edouard Balladur the benefit of the doubt as prime minister. The latest opinion polls all show a sharp drop (of up to nine percentage points in one month) in his hitherto remarkable popularity ratings. Unemployment, which Mr Balladur originally predicted would begin to fall by early this year, has now reached 12.2% (up from 11% a…

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