French strikes threaten to blight start of Euro 2016
The French government is struggling to end ongoing transport and rubbish collection strikes that threaten to blight the start of the Euro 2016 football tournament on Friday. Bins were overflowing and rubbish piled up along pavements in half of Paris neighbourhoods and in the southern port city of Marseille on Thursday after several days of rolling strikes at treatment plants that form part of the hardline CGT union’s protests against the government’s proposals to loosen France’s rigid labour protections.
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