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Sarkozy loves Anglo-Saxon model, calls Blair "one of us" | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
20% unemployment (none / 0)
begs the question - 20% of what.

The question is - those that are not in the active population - is it for good reasons like studying, or is it because they are discouraged?

See this:

Translated and discussed here:
Facts about the French labor market

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 30th, 2007 at 05:56:42 PM EST
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