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/ 14 November 2007
France was plunged into travel chaos for the second time in a month on Wednesday as striking railway unions staged a show of strength against the economic reforms of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Nationwide fewer than one-quarter of trains were running normally — and only 90 out 700 TGV fast trains.
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/ 13 November 2007
France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy, will on Tuesday night confront the biggest challenge yet to his six-month tenure, when transport and utility workers begin open-ended strike action that could paralyse the country, deepening the sense of a ”November of discontent”.