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[Orange Wizard]

Honestly shit like this should be normal anywhere, not something frowned upon. When was the last time some other big power folk got up in arms about workers rights being stripped or weakened?

Honestly, France is kinda too far in the opposite direction - the workers have too much protection and it becomes a nightmare to actually make them productive. IIRC one of Hollande's things is trying to cut back on the level of silliness.

[Sheb]

It's easy to see why they're so pissed. With the strikes concentrated in the energy and transportation sectors they actually have some leverage too. That they would use the state of emergency following a terrorist attack from months ago to do things like remove protections for workers without Parliamentary approval is pretty worrying.

You're mixing two things. The state of emergency is not the device used to ram down the law through Parliament. The thing they used to do that is Article 49.3 of the French Constitution, which allows the government to engage its responsability on a law. Basically, the law is passed without a vote in the Assembly (the lower house of the Parliament). If the Assembly don't want the law to pass , it then has 24 hours to pass a motion of no confidence in the government, toppling it.

It's really powerful when you have internal opposition to a law within your own party: your MPs have to let the law pass, or topple the government. The end result is that in the fifty years of its existence, 49.3 has been used around 40 time and no government was toppled.

[hector13]

Sounds like a way to push through some hugely unpopular laws. 24 hours? That's like... no time.

Ah well, sounds like the gov'ment are getting everything they deserve with the strikes (though the violence is unnecessary)

I hope it continues into the Euros, I imagine that would be super embarrassing for the Frenchies.

[Loud Whispers]

Sounds like a way to push through some hugely unpopular laws. 24 hours? That's like... no time.

Ah well, sounds like the gov'ment are getting everything they deserve with the strikes (though the violence is unnecessary)

I hope it continues into the Euros, I imagine that would be super embarrassing for the Frenchies.

No one ever gets what they properly deserve m8

"Those in jobs who already have various forms of labour protection are keen to preserve them, obviously," he says.

"But, to use a Richard Nixon term, there's a silent majority outside which would probably quite welcome a relaxation of the firm labour laws because they would have a better chance of getting a job."

France has a "longstanding view that the worker must be protected," says Prof Begg, "but if you were the unemployed youth of North African origin in one of the Paris banlieues, you might think it's totally alien to what you expect.

"You don't get a job under any circumstances, so the idea that the jobs there are are so heavily protected is hardly appealing."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36387492

Lmao racist French people trying to protect their jobs from Africans, counter riot wen?

[miljan]

Belgium joins the protests

http://www.euronews.com/nocomment/2016/05/25/protest-against-austerity-in-belgium/

https://www.rt.com/news/344210-police-clash-protesters-brussels/

[Loud Whispers]

>rt

[Loud Whispers]

http://www.shz.de/regionales/hamburg/christliche-trauerfeier-fuer-is-anhaenger-in-hamburg-sorgt-fuer-zuendstoff-id13801526.html
Lmao Germans giving ISIS fighters funerals

Better than rehab I spose

[Orange Wizard]

http://www.shz.de/regionales/hamburg/christliche-trauerfeier-fuer-is-anhaenger-in-hamburg-sorgt-fuer-zuendstoff-id13801526.html
Lmao Germans giving ISIS fighters funerals

Better than rehab I spose

Honestly, I'd probably do something similar. More for the memorialising than mourning though. I'm weirdly sentimental about people being forgotten or disrespected after death.

[Loud Whispers]

I'd not, I find it humorously appropriate that annihilators of history be forgotten sooner than the rest of us. Fuck the guy who burnt down the Temple of Artemis, and fuck these guys who burnt down the people and relics of Palmyra. If you join the people who desecrated the war graves and ancient burial grounds of those there before them, they deserve less than unmarked ditches in Syria, and they certainly don't deserve full burial in Germany.

[Baffler]

Not exactly Europol, but The IMF has released this thing. The most important points seem to be that open international investment (probably) creates boom-bust cycles, and that austerity both causes long term economic damage and doesn't seem to even be all that helpful in the short term. It goes on to say that both of these things definitely contribute to economic inequality, which is itself damaging to the economy.

[Loud Whispers]

IMF is big EU buddy

[Orange Wizard]

Not exactly Europol, but The IMF has released this thing. The most important points seem to be that open international investment (probably) creates boom-bust cycles, and that austerity both causes long term economic damage and doesn't seem to even be all that helpful in the short term. It goes on to say that both of these things definitely contribute to economic inequality, which is itself damaging to the economy.

The socialist in me is cheering. I hope this sort of thing catches on, but obviously that's not happening any time soon.

[Sheb]

Sounds like a way to push through some hugely unpopular laws. 24 hours? That's like... no time.

Ah well, sounds like the gov'ment are getting everything they deserve with the strikes (though the violence is unnecessary)

I hope it continues into the Euros, I imagine that would be super embarrassing for the Frenchies.

The no confidence procedure is also speed up in that case, so it's not actually that little, and it's generally used as a last resort. But yeah, the French system give a lot of power to the executive, and that's an exemple.

[Antioch]

http://www.shz.de/regionales/hamburg/christliche-trauerfeier-fuer-is-anhaenger-in-hamburg-sorgt-fuer-zuendstoff-id13801526.html
Lmao Germans giving ISIS fighters funerals

Better than rehab I spose

Honestly, I'd probably do something similar. More for the memorialising than mourning though. I'm weirdly sentimental about people being forgotten or disrespected after death.

These people are not tragic or misguided figures. These people have the complete knowledge of IS deeds as IS is one of the few organisations that does not hide its crimes but instead revels in them.

These people say yes to the beheading of "infidels" ,the murder of random civilians in terrorist attacks and IS other crimes.

They give their full commitment to the destruction of our way of life and replacing it with a totalitarian caliphate.

[miljan]

German Opposition Leader Attacked With Cake Over Migrants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMm9R30odMk

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-opposition-leader-attacked-cake-migrants-39448156