Per la serie: commenti oculati e severi su quello che sta succedendo in Francia, oggi è la volta dell’Independent, quotidiano della sinistra britannica (sinistra sinistra, non quelle robe da cacchine riformiste conniventi col nemico capitalista):

“President Chirac had suggested amending the period to one year and requiring employers to offer a cogent explanation, as well as a severance package.

To an outsider that looks a sensible compromise. Youth unemployment is currently running at 23 per cent in France and is as much as 40 per cent in the sink estates where last year’s violence was worst. The baleful effects of France’s rigid labour laws are largely to blame. They protect those in work, but do nothing to get the unemployed into a job. Employers do not take on many new staff because it is almost impossible to fire them if they prove unsuitable or are no longer needed. So a few get jobs, most can find only short-term contract work, and many have nothing at all”

Independent

(questo invece il commento di Peter Popham sull’Independent su come stanno messi gli italiani comunque vada: male)