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Old 01-22-2019, 06:08 PM
 
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With social unrest, riots, poor economy, and an unpopular leader. I wonder of France can turn it around or are they on their way towards second world status?
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Old 01-22-2019, 06:18 PM
 
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Well France remains one of the wealthiest countries, hardly likely to join the ranks of Greece. Social unrest has long been an established feature in French life. The spirit of the revolution and taking to the streets to fight perceived injustices or ill thought out policy has been pretty much the norm.


A hard nation to rule. The people are impossible to silence. Besides, large numbers of the French population support actions like strikes and civil disobedience, unlike the Anglo world.


An example, when living there, an action impacting movement on motorways with striking lorry drivers, across the nation, meaning huge delays in the boiling sun, still maintained 'understanding' from large swag of the French population.
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Old 01-22-2019, 06:57 PM
 
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Well France remains one of the wealthiest countries, hardly likely to join the ranks of Greece. Social unrest has long been an established feature in French life. The spirit of the revolution and taking to the streets to fight perceived injustices or ill thought out policy has been pretty much the norm.


A hard nation to rule. The people are impossible to silence. Besides, large numbers of the French population support actions like strikes and civil disobedience, unlike the Anglo world.


An example, when living there, an action impacting movement on motorways with striking lorry drivers, across the nation, meaning huge delays in the boiling sun, still maintained 'understanding' from large swag of the French population.
I don't know in what part of Australia you live in, but Melbourne gets strikes on a regular basis.
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Old 01-22-2019, 09:28 PM
 
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France has a high unemployment rate. It's slowly declining.
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Old 01-22-2019, 10:43 PM
 
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With social unrest, riots, poor economy, and an unpopular leader. I wonder of France can turn it around or are they on their way towards second world status?

No, the French simply have guts to stand up to this whole corporate "globalization" project, that brings their living standards down.
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Old 01-23-2019, 01:47 AM
 
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France is becoming the new Egypt.
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Old 01-23-2019, 03:13 AM
 
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I don't know in what part of Australia you live in, but Melbourne gets strikes on a regular basis.
Do you? I cannot remember the last strike here in Sydney. The last potential train strike was averted at the last minute.
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Old 01-23-2019, 03:46 AM
 
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With social unrest, riots, poor economy, and an unpopular leader. I wonder of France can turn it around or are they on their way towards second world status?
More Yank fantasia....it must be something in the water over there.
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Old 01-23-2019, 05:27 AM
 
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With social unrest, riots, poor economy, and an unpopular leader. I wonder of France can turn it around or are they on their way towards second world status?
No, France is not becoming the "new Greece". France is still a great industrialized nation and is home to dozens of highly competitive multinational companies. Yes, France can turn it around.

Like many countries of early industrialization (which Greece never was and still isn't), the French economy is paying a high price for promises and commitments made to people especially in the 1960s-1990s period (the Greeks promised themselves the same benefits, without the industry to back them up).

It is possible to get over the hump, so to speak, but it will require economic policies that provide real opportunities to the dynamic sectors of the population, otherwise the current period of stagnation will last another 20-30 years, but which time we'll all be the "new Greece".
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Old 01-23-2019, 08:53 AM
 
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With social unrest, riots, poor economy, and an unpopular leader. I wonder of France can turn it around or are they on their way towards second world status?
Greece was in financial default and lied about their economic status to the EU and was living off of debt until the EU bankers pulled the plug and they suffered great reductions in income, wealth, jobs, etc for years.

France has been stagnant to very low growth which is pretty much the standard for most of the developed European economies. I don't see anything comparable to the Greece collapse in France at this point in time....as long as they continue making the best wine and cheese, I'm good with them.
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