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7.10.06

DEJEUNER




Lunch with the FT: The fortune teller:

“French society is much more modern than people think,” she (Laurence Parisot of MEDEF) says. “It is capable of accepting change.”

Such words are not heard very often in France, where the talk is more often of the problems of globalisation - particularly its impact on job security when unemployment is above 9 per cent - and the widespread resistance to reforming the costly social security system."

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