DECRYPTION – On the other side of the Alps, Rome has made a different choice from Paris, and has more control over social conflicts.
Ciao the strike, salute the Christmas truce? Faced with the mobilizations of the railway unions which will paralyze nearly 200,000 French people in the middle of the natal weekend, the executive is screaming. At the microphone of France Info, Olivier Véran, spokesman for the government, asked Thursday morning the strikers to “hear legitimate requestof the population, namely being able to visit their family during the holiday season. But faced with this constitutionalized right, defended tooth and nail by the unions, the executive is somewhat disarmed. An unthinkable situation for our transalpine neighbours, where it would be impossible for a strike to disturb travelers in this way at Christmas.
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